Petition: Protect Educator and Student Lives
CPS and the mayor are refusing to comply with an independent arbitrator’s decision and refusing to bargain over the conditions of when and how we return to school. It’s careless, reckless and lawless. Sign the petition!
Mayor Lightfoot and CPS: No compliance, no plan and no shame
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.
Mayor, CPS try to strongarm clerks into false choice between safety and livelihood
Lightfoot’s handpicked district leaders ignore arbitrator’s legally binding ruling and threaten jobs of workers who exercise right to work safely by working remotely. CHICAGO, Oct. 7, 2020—CPS has threatened to discipline workers who exercise their right... After arbitration loss, CPS now illegally threatening educators for exercising rights
The district is straight up lying to our people in hopes of intimidating them out of exercising their rights. This is the same divide and conquer tactic it tried when forcing members back into buildings in late August.
CTU wins legal battle to protect workers in unsafe buildings as two new schools report COVID cases — and one tragic death
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.
