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Our contract and our unity protect our members and the students we serve in every school. Learn how to stand up for your rights, get help from CTU staff when you need it, and stand with fellow CTU members.
My Movement
Along with parents, students and community, we advocate for the schools – and the city – that our students deserve. Learning, working and living conditions are not separate. Together, our Union wages a comprehensive fight for the soul of public education.
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Caring, democratic, united: CTU is more than 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians acting as one.
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My Rights
Our contract and our unity protect our members and the students we serve in every school. Learn how to stand up for your rights, get help from CTU staff when you need it, and stand with fellow CTU members.
My Movement
Along with parents, students and community, we advocate for the schools – and the city – that our students deserve. Learning, working and living conditions are not separate. Together, our Union wages a comprehensive fight for the soul of public education.
My Union
Caring, democratic, united: CTU is more than 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians acting as one.
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Notice of Election to Fill Citywide Delegate Vacancies
On November 1 and 4, 2021 remote nominations meetings will be held for citywide functional groups that have delegate vacancies. If there are more candidates than vacant positions, an electronic election will be held on November 8, 9, 11 and 12, 2021.CTU day of action calls on mayor to step up school safety as Union offers more free vax
Parent flyering, walk-ins, testing events, more to mark actions into next week as CTU members continue to call on Lightfoot’s CPS team to land safety agreement for testing, contact tracing, school vax, health metric — and adequate staffing in desperately understaffed schools. TODAY, 8:15a.m. – 8:35 a.m., Friday, October 15: B-roll opportunities at Barton Elementary, […]We stand with workers at Kellogg, UAW and IATSE television and film union
Poor working conditions continue as companies continue to profit off the lie of corporate support of "essential" workers. Educators can relate.Your Union is Here to Help
Caring, united, democratic: CTU is more than 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians acting as one.
CTU Speaks! Podcast
Our podcast, CTU Speaks! is hosted by Andrea Parker and Jim Staros. We’ll chat about our union, enforcing our contract, and our fight for the schools our students and educators deserve.
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Same Storm, Different Boats: The Safe and Equitable Conditions For Reopening CPS in 2020-21
Parents, students, and teachers want to go back to school in person and want to do so safely. Will that be possible in September? Is there a number of educator or student deaths that we are willing to accept in order to have in-person school? Are CPS, the city, and the state willing to spend the money to make school reopening safe?
These questions are of particular concern in Chicago, where 84% of students and 50% of staff are Black, Latinx, multi-racial, or Native American. 1 The consequences of racist health care, discriminatory housing, and employment practices are that these students, educators, and their families are at greater risk of contracting and becoming seriously ill from COVID-19.
Also, a large percentage of staff are at increased risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19 due to their age and/or underlying health conditions. Half of CTU’s membership live in the Chicago zip codes with the highest rates of COVID-19, totaling well over 35,000 positive cases.
