By CTU Communications | November 18, 2020 | News
File under: Clerks, PSRP: Paraprofessional and School Related Personnel, school clerks, technology coordinators
Instead of honoring PSRPs’ right to a safe workplace, Lightfoot and the Board are defying an arbitrator’s ruling as well as the mayor’s own public health guidance to compel these PSRPs to work in unsafe buildings when they could be working remotely.
By Christel Williams-Hayes, Recording Secretary | November 17, 2020 | Chicago Union Teacher, Departments, News
File under: Arbitration, Chicago Board of Education, Christel Williams Hayes, Clerks, COVID-19, Lori Lightfoot, school clerks, technology coordinators
An independent arbitrator found that school buildings are unsafe and ordered that clerks and other staff should be allowed to work remotely at least four days a week. But the mayor decided she’s above the law and refused to abide by that ruling.
By CTU Communications | November 15, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Clerks, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Lori Lightfoot, school clerks, technology coordinators
“Save Our Clerks” campaign to assist workers with basic needs is yet another example of educators and labor coming together to fill in gaps where others have fallen short.
By Jesse Sharkey, CTU President | November 12, 2020 | News, Rights
File under: Arbitration, Bargaining Update, Clerks, COVID-19, Lori Lightfoot, technology coordinators
In a 38-page final order, the independent arbitrator ruled that CPS clerks and other staff cannot be forced to work in unsafe buildings. We will be holding an emergency meeting with school clerks, technology coordinators and other rank-and-file members impacted by the arbitration opinion very soon.
By CTU Communications | November 2, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Clerks, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Lori Lightfoot, school clerks, technology coordinators
Mayor Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools continue to force clerks, clerk assistants and technology coordinators to choose between their lives and their livelihoods.
By CTU Communications | October 28, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Black, Clerks, COVID, COVID tracker, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Latinx, Lori Lightfoot, school clerks, technology coordinators
With COVID-19 surging and CPS refusing to answer parents’ questions, Union launches tracker to help identify schools with positive cases. CHICAGO, Oct. 28, 2020—The Chicago Teachers Union today is launching its citywide, school COVID-19 tracker to aid members in... 
By CTU Organizing | October 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
File under: Clerks, COVID-19, school clerks, technology coordinators
CPS and the mayor are refusing to comply with an independent arbitrator’s decision and refusing to bargain over the conditions of when and how we return to school. It’s careless, reckless and lawless. Sign the petition!
By Stacy Davis Gates, CTU Vice President | October 21, 2020 | News
File under: Clerks, coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Lori Lightfoot, Remote Learning, school clerks, technology coordinators
CPS and the mayor have provided no detailed plan on how they intend to resume in-person instruction for the second quarter. CPS also has refused to commit to bargaining with our union over its decision on when and how to resume in-person instruction.
By CTU Communications | October 7, 2020 | News
File under: Clerks, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Lori Lightfoot, Remote, Remote Learning, school clerks, technology coordinators
The district is straight up lying to our people in hopes of intimidating them out of exercising their rights. This is the same divide and conquer tactic it tried when forcing members back into buildings in late August.
By CTU Communications | October 2, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Clerks, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Remote Learning, school clerks, technology coordinators
The arbitrator’s ruling finds that the district’s half-measures are failing, in addition to its failures to share case reports with the public and the Chicago Teachers Union. CPS is not fit to reopen.
