Latino Youth HS settles, strike continues at charter operator Instituto’s schools
Latino Youth strikers win sanctuary protections, mental health support, restorative justice, culturally appropriate curricula for low-income, Latinx high school students, as strike at Instituto schools continues.
7A/1P TODAY: Friday actions to push management on financial shell games and demand fair contracts at three striking charter schools
7AM TODAY, May 3: Press conference/picket lines IHSCA, 2520 S. Western Ave., Chicago. (Picket lines at all three striking schools: IHSCA, IJLA, LYHS) 1PM TODAY, May 3: Rally and March IHSCA, 2520 S. Western Ave. Strikers will march to Instituto CEO’s office at...
AFT’s Weingarten to join CTU charter educators to kick off multi-employer strike
Press conference/rally: 5PM, Wednesday, May 1 Chicago High School for the Arts, 2714 W. Augusta Blvd., Chicago Teachers, support staff are striking for living wages, adequate student supports, pension rights, protections for immigrant and special education students....
CTU charter members to strike on May Day
Teachers, support staff will walk out after end of school day on May 1 if demands for living wages, adequate student supports, pension rights, protections for immigrant and diverse learners are not met. View livestream of press conference at this link. CHICAGO—CTU...
April 25: CTU charter members to announce strike date against operators
Press conference/rally: 4:30 PM, Thursday, April 25 Arturo Velazquez Westside Technical Institute, 2800 S. Western Ave., Chicago Teachers, support staff will walk out if demands for living wages, adequate student supports, pension rights, protections for immigrant and...
CTU charter members vote overwhelmingly to strike four operators at five schools
Five charter schools could strike in coming weeks, as educators battle for living wages, adequate student supports, pension rights, protections for immigrant and diverse learners. Press conference can be viewed at this link. CHICAGO—After two historic strikes against...
CTU to rally for fair contracts for charter educators, announce strike vote dates
With 13 schools bargaining with seven operators, charter educators are demanding fair pay and benefits, wraparound supports for students, adequately resourced classrooms.
CTU stands with CSO strikers as Mabie and fellow board members wage war on pensions for musicians and teachers
Wealthy CSO board treasurer James Mabie co-founded ChiArts high school—and both outfits refuse to fund workers’ pensions. CHICAGO—Finance executives have salivated for decades at the prospect of getting their hands on workers’ retirement nest eggs and the...
We stand with striking musicians
Any attack on the right to a retirement with dignity is wrong – whether it’s at a school like ChiArts, which is training the next generation of artists or a world class institution like the CSO, where our students aspire to perform one day, says CTU. CHICAGO, March...General CTU Announcement
TODAY, 5PM: Rev. Jackson to join CICS strikers to demand that CICS free hoarded funds and settle strike
- 5PM TODAY, Thursday, 2/14: Rev. Jesse Jackson stands with CTU strikers
CTU HQ, 1901 W. Carroll Ave., Chicago
Teachers and paras have been on picket lines since Feb. 5 in longest strike against charter operator in U.S. history, while management continues to refuse to return funds to school communities.
CHICAGO—Rev. Jesse Jackson will join more than two dozen members of the CTU's bargaining team, along with fellow strikers, at 5PM today to lend his support to their struggle for a fair contract that supports living wages and critical frontline services for their four schools' overwhelmingly low-income students of color.
Jackson is speaking out publicly on the same day that the City Council's Latino Caucus issued a letter to CICS CEO Elizabeth Shaw calling on her to settle the strike and ensure that classrooms are properly resourced.
Charter operators collect more than $600 more per student than district schools from public coffers, yet CICS insists that it will raise pay for low-wage educators only in exchange for cuts to social workers and counselors, larger class sizes and gutted parental leave for paraprofessionals—some of whom earn less than $30,000 per year.
Educators continue to refuse to sacrifice student services in a 'trade' for increased pay. Bargaining will resume Thursday, in an effort to reach an agreement in what is now the longest strike against a charter operator in U.S. history.
