So CTU, too, was going to have its strike. It did, at tremendous cost to the children of Chicago. One week in, and the CTU continues to bargain for more, more, more. Affordable housing, rent control, homelessness, tax increment financing districts and taxes that hit the wealthy are among the policy issues CTU leaders are raising at the bargaining table. That’s when they show up in good faith. With a by-design unruly bargaining team of 40 CTU members, consensus and efficiency have been elusive, according to the mayor.