By CTU President Jesse Sharkey | August 24, 2021 | _News
File under: Bargaining, Bargaining Update, COVID-19, Jesse Sharkey, Lori Lightfoot, MOA
The mayor has touted layered mitigations as successful for our schools. Those mitigations are from the MOU we fought for last spring — she has yet to agree to them for this fall. Those strategies worked at a time when only 25% of our families returned their children to schools last winter and spring. Yet today, we have 100% of our families returning. How does this make sense?
By CTU Communications | May 7, 2021 | _News
File under: Clinicians, COVID-19, High School, MOA
The extraordinary fight that we waged with CPS during the last few months secured agreements for the safe reopening of school buildings (full details at ctulocal1.org/safety). Now, CPS is trying to wriggle out of key aspects of those agreements. We need to step up our...