By CTU Communications | January 22, 2021 | _News
File under: COVID-19, democracy, Remote Learning, Strike Ready
For months, rank-and-file members have organized and agitated for an enforceable agreement that prioritizes safety, equity and trust. CPS has dragged its feet at the negotiating table, preferring to dictate terms rather than engage educators. That’s why we’re asking for all members to vote yes on taking action with the entire union in every District school!
By Chris Geovanis | January 15, 2021 | _News, _News Advisory, _Press Release, Movement, Rights
File under: Action, car caravan, COVID, COVID-19, Remote Learning
Locked out CTU educators, allies to ‘picket’ in car caravan for safe school reopening Reports of COVID at schools grow, as CPS continues to fail to deliver on promised safety measures and double digit COVID rates rise in Black and Brown Chicago...By CTU Communications | January 11, 2021 | _News, _Press Release
File under: Remote Learning, Section 4.5
Lightfoot’s hand-picked board moves to deny thousands of children access to their teachers and their educations in attempt to force rank and file educators to work under unsafe conditions. CHICAGO, Jan. 11, 2020—The Chicago Teachers Union issued the following...By CTU Communications | January 11, 2021 | _News, _Press Release
File under: COVID-19, health metrics, Lori Lightfoot, Passages, Remote Learning, Stacy Davis Gates
CPS has consistently rejected CTU requests for those metrics standards for District-run schools, as Lightfoot refuses to waver from school reopenings and pandemic surges again in Black and Brown Chicago neighborhoods. CHICAGO, Jan. 10, 2021—Passages Charter School...By CTU Communications | January 4, 2021 | _News, _Press Release
File under: Chicago Principals & Administrators Association, COVID-19, Lori Lightfoot, Remote Learning
Over 50 Chicago neighborhoods at double digit positivity as educators report unclean buildings, and Black and Brown parents continue to reject in-person learning for their children. 6:30 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 5 — Press conference, Chicago Principals & Administrators... 
By Jackson Potter | November 20, 2020 | _News
File under: COVID-19, Jackson Potter, Remote Learning, UTLA
CPS has refused to bargain with the CTU over remote learning or return to in-person school, but educators in Los Angeles have been properly engaged by their school management. Maybe it’s because Los Angeles has an elected school board. Or, maybe, officials there realize you cannot run a school system without the workers.
By CTU Communications | November 9, 2020 | _News, _Press Release
File under: COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU: Chicago Teachers Union, Dennis Kosuth, Lori Lightfoot, Remote Learning, Science Meles
Polling memo shows overwhelming concern about reopening, as evidence grows of school transmissions in Illinois and across nation. Click this link to watch today’s CTU/SEIU press conference. CHICAGO, Nov. 9, 2020—Chicago voters remain deeply concerned about the... 
By CTU Communications | October 23, 2020 | _News, _News Advisory
File under: COVID-19, Remote Learning, ULP: Unfair Labor Practice
The Union, as a collective bargaining representative, has a right under contract and the law to access worksites to assess the safety conditions under which its members are required to work. LINK to ULP here.
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 18, 2020 | _News
File under: COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Lori Lightfoot, Remote Learning, Safety
As parents, students and educators await Chicago Public Schools’ plans for the second quarter of the school year, the Chicago Teachers Union today launched the first in a series of digital advertisements focusing on the needs of the city’s school communities in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
