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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.
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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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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.
Support HB 2778 for COVID paycheck and benefit protections
House Bill 2778 would guarantee that all school districts treat educational employees fairly and promote economic recovery while helping to ensure schools remain safe for those who learn and work in them.
read moreOct. 21 bargaining update: Pulling teeth, taking action
{{ FirstName | default: ‘Friend’ }}- Another day of bargaining with the mayor’s team makes clear she has yet to order her crew to move off their obstructionism and work WITH us rather than against us in supporting our school communities. This is clearly not our first time at this rodeo, so this Friday we’re […]Friday day of action for safety!
Friends, last Friday’s Day of Action for Safety was a huge success — so much so, that we’re doing it again tomorrow! Just to recap… How to have a visible, inspiring and powerful action: Wear red to show your solidarity. Print out and distribute flyers to parents, colleagues and in your school community. You can […]Sign up your CPS student to get COVID tested by CPS
Hey parents, do you want to sign up your kid(s) for COVID testing by CPS, but you aren’t sure how? You’re not alone. So far, the mayor’s CPS team has secured consent forms from about 7 percent of students. That’s right. Out of some 320,000 students, they have consent forms for less than 25,000 kids at this point.Your Union is Here to Help
Caring, united, democratic: CTU is more than 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians acting as one.
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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.
