What I learned at the bargaining table
Our members’ willingness and courage to escalate tactics is the only thing that moves CPS to do what’s right for students and educators.
LSCs flex their muscle
After a year of challenges, LSCs came out strong in the fight against the unsafe, reckless CPS reopening plan.
PSRP Corner: Just say “No”
Saying “no” to inappropriate assignments today can help ensure your school has the proper staffing you need tomorrow. CPS will never provide our schools with the staffing and resources they need and that have been promised if PSRPs continue to play the dutiful helper role — always willing to chip in when needed.
Have you formed your safety committee?
Our reopening agreement ,itself, does not make our schools safe. It gives us tools to hold CPS accountable and to ensure our buildings are as safe as they can be. But, like our contract, the reopening will be only as strong as our ability to enforce it, building by building. And that’s where your safety committee comes in.
Procedures for Hardship Fund
These procedures for the fund to benefit educators who suffered financial hardship due to retaliation for exercising their right to work safely and remotely were approved by the House of Delegates at its March 3, 2021 meeting.
Update on fight against retaliation toward members staying safe and remote
The Union and our rank-and-file members have initiated a multi-pronged strategy to push back on discipline cases against members in retaliation for their activism around its efforts to force educators back into school buildings. It is already having an effect. As of today, CPS has dropped an additional 21 of the 55 cases, leaving 34 outstanding.
Facing down CPS “AWOL” notice, threat not to pay
CPS today escalated their attempt to intimidate CTU members, in hopes that we will stop our campaign for a safe return, stop exercising our rights, and stop telling the truth to parents and the public. CTU members taking a stand against the Mayor’s reckless reopening plan has had an impact, changing the conversation in Springfield, City Council, LSCs and with parents across the city.
Stand together: Tell the mayor and CPS we will return to our schools only when we have safety.
CTU members must all sign onto this letter demanding safety. Whether you are threatened with unsafe in-person work January 4 or not, standing together is one important step in winning our right to a safe workplace. Sign right away and share ctulocal1.org/safety with colleagues to have them sign.
CTU car caravan for safety, equity, trust seeks to push mayor to bargain enforceable safety standards
Elected officials, grassroots neighborhood groups to join teachers, school clerks, clinicians, parents, students in struggle to reopen safely — and improve remote learning as pandemic surges. 11:00 a.m. Car Caravan for Safety, Equity and Trust: Union Park, Ashland and...
New CTU campaign calls for investments in remote learning, building 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.
