By CTU Communications | April 1, 2022 | News
File under: Right to Recovery, Summer Organizing Institute
Applications are being accepted for the CTU’s Summer Organizing Institute. Take a leading role in the campaign to promote our members’ rights and fight for educational justice! This year’s institute will provide training in organizing skills, leadership and union and community education issues.
By CTU Communications | August 17, 2021 | News, Press Release
File under: COVID-19, delta, Right to Recovery, school reopening
CPS continues to insist on rolling back last year’s health and safety protocols even as the delta variant is filling hospitals around the country with children at the highest rate since the pandemic began and Chicago cases top 400/day — last year’s cut-off for...By Pavlyn Jankov | August 13, 2021 | News
File under: American Recovery Plan, COVID, COVID-19, CPS budget, Lori Lightfoot, Right to Recovery
CPS is set to receive an historic $2.6 billion infusion of federal dollars from three federal funding programs. And the City of Chicago will reap another $2 billion in COVID relief money, giving Mayor Lightfoot a record $4 billion that should be used to transform our schools and communities.
By CTU Communications | August 10, 2021 | News, Press Release
File under: COVID-19, Right to Recovery
Mayor’s CPS team refuses to bargain Wednesday, after demanding that the Union bargain daily. 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, August 11: Open bargaining update, La Villita Church, 2300 S. Millard, Chicago. This event will also be livestreamed to the CTU’s Facebook...By CTU Communications | June 9, 2021 | News, Press Release
File under: COVID tracker, COVID-19, Right to Recovery
Chicago Teachers Union and the Chicago Teachers Union Foundation collaborate on vaccination effort, open to the public, to help students and families return to school buildings safely in the fall. 3 p.m., Thursday, June 10: Press availability with Chicago Teachers... 
By CTU Communications | July 17, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Jesse Sharkey, Right to Recovery, Stacy Davis Gates
Mayor’s ‘budget-neutral’ plan for desperately under-resourced school communities fails to provide adequate safety protections as deadly pandemic spreads. CHICAGO, July 17—The Chicago Teachers Union issued the following statement today in response to... 
By Jackson Potter | June 26, 2020 | News
File under: COVID-19, Jackson Potter, Rent relief, Right to Recovery, United Working Families
We are all fed up with cabin fever caused by quarantine, the disappointing inadequacies of remote learning, and growing economic insecurity. But we must keep fighting to ensure a true recovery for the many, not the few.
By Brandon Johnson | May 7, 2020 | News
File under: Brandon Johnson, COVID-19, Right to Recovery
COVID-19 has exposed the massive inequities, homelessness, lack of affordable housing, unemployment, food insecurity, and inadequate healthcare Chicago students and their families face every day.
By President Jesse Sharkey | April 21, 2020 | News
File under: COVID-19, Right to Recovery
President Sharkey reports in this video on the Union’s work to advocate for our members and fight for our students and their families.
By CTU Communications | April 17, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: coronavirus, COVID-19, Right to Recovery
Digital divide dovetails with poverty, chronic inequality for hundreds of thousands of low income Black and Brown CPS students. Click here to view the full CTU press conference. CHICAGO, April 17, 2020—CTU President Jesse Sharkey issued the following statement today...
