Chicago Teachers Union

    Doublecross! Chicago Teachers Continue To Hold Students & Parents Hostage For Second Week #CTUStrike

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 17th at 09:45 AM  | 

    Doublecross! Chicago Teachers Continue To Hold Students & Parents Hostage For Second Week #CTUStrike

    On Sunday, after abandoning their classrooms for the picket lines and putting 400,000 of Chicago’s schoolkids on the streets for a week, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis and her 800-member House of Delegates voted to reject a deal reached only days earlier, keeping 26,000 teachers on the streets and forcing Chicago parents to scramble with childcare issues or miss work for a second week in a | Read More »

    Chicago Teachers Union Uses Kids As Pawns: Karen Lewis’ Train Wreck That Could’ve Been Avoided

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 10th at 02:30 PM  | 

    Early this morning, 26,000 Chicago teachers walked out on 400,000 Chicago kids, abandoning the classroom for the picket lines. Anytime, teachers abandon school kids, it is the children and their parents who suffer the greatest–and Chicago Teachers Union knows this. As the union had been negotiating for months with the offcials in Chicago Public School system, the union could have struck anytime during the summer. | Read More »