Organizing Tools: PPC, PPLC & LSC
Our contractual rights are only meaningful if members know them and invoke them. One of our basic rights as workers is the right to union representation.
Professional Problems Committees
The PPC is an important tool to enforce the contract and protect our members’ workplace rights. They are also key to organizing and empowering members to build CTU strength in every school.
Professional Personnel Leadership Committees
The Professional Personnel Leadership Committee (PPLC) is key to organizing and empowering members to have a voice in the curriculum, priorities and budget of our schools.
Local School Councils
What began in Chicago three decades ago as a “radical experiment” in neighborhood control of education has come to resemble—both through waning interest and a deliberate undermining of its powers by Chicago Public Schools—an overlooked and underestimated electoral artifact. This need not, and should not, be. Teachers, PSRPs, parents and community members can play a critical role in realizing the power of Local School Councils at their fullest potential.
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.
