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7:15P TONIGHT: CTU update on bargaining, next steps

By CTU Communications | January 31, 2021 | News, Press Release
File under: COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU, lock out, Lori Lightfoot

CTU waited in bargaining for hours, as mayor demands ‘major concessions’ on CDC health metric, testing, teaching remotely for educators with medically fragile family members. 7:15 p.m. TODAY, Sunday, Jan. 31: Press conference will be livestreamed to CTU...

Clinicians, elected officials call on CPS to pause dangerous reopening plan, allow locked out educators to teach

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...

Locked out educators to teach from CPS board president’s lawn, joined by rank and file still teaching remotely

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...

6:30A Monday: Educators join parents in rejecting in-person learning until buildings are safe, pandemic is under control

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 —...

CTU to go to trial on CPS’ refusal to bargain over reopening, as union pushes for trial date next week

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...

5P Thurs.: Candlelight vigil will honor CTU members, school community members taken by COVID

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....

CPS must bargain with our union before setting date for return

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...

CPS acquires air filters, yet clerks’ entire families continue to contract COVID-19

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...

Chicago area labor unions to issue statement, discuss steps to protect integrity of election

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....

Acero parents outraged at special ed cuts during pandemic

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...