CHICAGO – Members of the Chicago Teachers Union want Hillary Clinton to stick by her word, instead of her long-time political ally Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and they’re demanding she choose sides.

This summer the Democratic presidential candidate visited the annual conference for the CTU’s parent organization – the American Federation of Teachers – and famously declared to members “I’m with you.”

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Now, educators in one of the worst unionized inner-city school districts in the nation are asking Clinton to put her words into action, and join teachers on the picket line when they’re expected to walk out on students tomorrow over pay and other issues, In These Times reports.

In an open letter to Clinton published on the site Sunday, special education teacher and union delegate Katie Osgood laid out the union’s grips and implored the Democratic candidate to do something about it.

“Teachers in Chicago are on the eve of the second teachers’ strike in four years. Members voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike because we see the unacceptable reality of underfunded, sabotaged schools every day,” Osgood said after recounting the failed Democratic education policies pursued by Emanuel.

“Secretary Clinton, I invite you to come walk the picket line at my school should we go out on strike beginning on October 11th. Show us which side you are on. The wealthy bankers that profit off of Rahm Emanuel’s privatization schemes or the families and teachers of Chicago?” she continued.

“It’s time for you to step up and show what kind of president you will be.”

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Osgood described the “massive manufactured crisis brewing in the Chicago Public Schools” that has been “worsened by your friend, Mayor Rahm Emanuel” through “racist school closings.”

She described how Emanuel’s policies forced another school to merge into her largely high-poverty African-American elementary school on Chicago’s South Side, resulted in the loss of the school librarian and other support positions, and created violence in the city that’s causing students extensive “trauma.”

“We are a school located in the middle of a neighborhood facing massive spikes in violence, thanks to Rahm’s racist policies causing a lack of housing, jobs and opportunity,” Osgood wrote, adding that a recent shooting caused a scary school lock down.

She alleges Emanuel has intentionally targeted black communities and special needs students with budget and staffing cuts, but makes no mention of expensive union contract demands that are driving the district’s never-ending financial problems.

Osgood posed the question to Clinton: “Would you allow your granddaughter to attend a school suffering these types of assaults?”

“You say, ‘Black Lives Matter,’” Osgood wrote. “Well, now is the time for you to show that the Black Lives of children, children with disabilities, children living in poverty here in Chicago … that those lives matter to you. That the lives of Black educators who are being laid off or pushed out in droves matter to you,” Osgood wrote to Clinton.

“You say to teachers, ‘I’m with you,’” Osgood continued. “I heard you speak at the AFT National Conference this summer, where you promised us you are on our side. Well, in Chicago we are under attack, an attack led by your party’s out-of-favor embarrassment, Rahm Emanuel.

“As the chosen candidate of the Democratic Party, we ask that you intervene directly. If you ask teachers to say, ‘I’m with her,’ then you need to show us that you truly are with us in our time of dire need.”