By CTU Communications | January 19, 2021 | News, Press Release
File under: COVID-19, CTU, Lori Lightfoot
More than 10 percent of CPS schools report COVID cases in last ten days, as mayor remains insistent on reopening schools despite sweeping safety gaps in buildings. 7:00 a.m. TODAY, Wed., Jan. 20: press conference with CTU clinicians urging CPS to suspend dangerous...
By CTU Communications | January 12, 2021 | News, Press Release
File under: Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU, Lori Lightfoot, Miguel del Valle
Lockout has disrupted education for thousands of Black and Brown students, as educators continue to document safety failures and COVID cases at their schools. 7A TODAY, Wednesday, 1/13: Press conference/teach-out, with locked out teachers, in front of CPS board of...
By CTU Communications | January 3, 2021 | News, Press Release
File under: Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU, Lori Lightfoot, pre-k, special education cluster
Black and Brown parents join CTU members in rejecting in-person learning, as CPS continues to reject accommodations for workers — including CTU member with brain tumor — and schools remain largest single source of COVID exposure in state. 6:30 a.m. Mon., Jan. 4 —...
By CTU Communications | December 17, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Bargaining Update, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU, IELRB, Jesse Sharkey, Section 4.5
CHICAGO, Dec. 17, 2020—Today the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (IELRB), on a split 2-1 vote, denied the Union’s request to seek a preliminary injunction against CPS’ unilaterally developed plan to resume in-person learning on Jan. 4. The two-member...
By CTU Communications | December 16, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU, Lori Lightfoot, vigil
Schools are largest source of COVID exposure in state, with numbers in suburban Cook close to 20% of cases, even as Lightfoot and CPS insist on reopening schools in less than three weeks. 5:00 p.m. Thurs., Dec. 17 — Candlelight vigil: Cather Elementary School, 2908 W....
By CTU Communications | November 5, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Bargaining Update, Chicago Teachers Union, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU, IELRB, Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, Thad Goodchild, ULP: Unfair Labor Practice
CHICAGO, Nov. 5, 2020—Chicago Teachers Union Deputy General Counsel Thaddeus Goodchild issued the following statement regarding today’s Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board ruling that denied the Union’s request for preliminary injunction in...
By CTU Communications | November 4, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU, Jesse Sharkey, reopening, ventilation
Mayor and CPS finally relent to releasing ventilation data, but fail to test HVAC systems properly or allow independent verification as parents and educators call for more transparency and involvement in safety discussions. CHICAGO, Nov. 4, 2020—Despite announcing an...
By CTU Communications | November 2, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: AFGE Local 704, Chicago Teachers Union, Cook County College Teachers Union Local 1600, CTU, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE), SEIU Healthcare Illinois Indiana Missouri and Kansas, SEIU Local 73, United Electrical, Warehouse Worker Organizing Committee
Unions commit to take whatever non-violent action is required to ensure a free and fair election in which all votes are counted, and that ensures peaceful transition of power. 11:00 a.m., TODAY, Mon., Nov. 2: Labor press conference, Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph....
By CTU Communications | October 5, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Acero, ACTS, CTU, Special Education, UNO
Rolling back supports for special education students represents a betrayal of charter operator’s commitment to improve special ed services in wake of historic 2018 strike. 7:00 a.m. Tuesday, October 6: Press conference, Acero parents and special education...
By CTU Communications | September 28, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU, Lori Lightfoot, school clerks, technology coordinators
Frontline workers cite ongoing safety concerns in school buildings as Mayor moves to reopen city while double digit COVID rates persist in hard-hit South and West Side neighborhoods. 6:00 a.m., Wed., Sept. 30: Press availability, PPE distribution Collins High School,...