By CTU Communications | October 2, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: Clerks, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Remote Learning, school clerks, technology coordinators
The arbitrator’s ruling finds that the district’s half-measures are failing, in addition to its failures to share case reports with the public and the Chicago Teachers Union. CPS is not fit to reopen.
By CTU Communications | September 28, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU, Lori Lightfoot, school clerks, technology coordinators
Frontline workers cite ongoing safety concerns in school buildings as Mayor moves to reopen city while double digit COVID rates persist in hard-hit South and West Side neighborhoods. 6:00 a.m., Wed., Sept. 30: Press availability, PPE distribution Collins High School,...
By CTU Communications | September 18, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: COVID, COVID-19, Remote Learning, school clerks, technical coordinators
Frontline educators continue to demand that CPS improve unworkable, poorly designed remote learning plans that fall woefully short in supporting students, families. 7:00 a.m., Mon., Sept. 21: Press conference, rank and file educators and support staff Via Zoom: You...
By CTU Communications | September 16, 2020 | News, Press Release
File under: COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU: Chicago Teachers Union, Jesse Sharkey, school clerks
CPS admits COVID cases among CPS workers have tripled since May, with hundreds of school workers contracting COVID-19—and at least eight now dead—despite working in lightly populated buildings with very limited staff. CHICAGO, September 16, 2020—The Chicago Teachers...
By Thad Goodchild, CTU Deputy General Counsel | September 10, 2020 | News
File under: Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, COVID, COVID-19, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, CTU, school clerks, Thad Goodchild
A message to rank and file members from CTU Deputy General Counsel Thaddeus Goodchild: We’re planning for next steps on the unfair labor practice and grievance we’ve filed against CPS for forcing clerks and other workers into buildings without bargaining...
