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The Chicago Teachers Union ( CTU) is a labor union that represents teachers, paraprofessionals, and clinicians in the Chicago public school system. The union has consistently fought for improved pay, benefits, and job security for its members, and it has resisted efforts to vary teacher pay based on performance evaluations.
Karen Lewis ( née Jennings; [2] [3] July 20, 1953 – February 7, 2021) [4] [5] [6] was an American educator and labor leader who served as president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Chicago's division of the American Federation of Teachers, from 2010 to 2014. For nearly 20 years before becoming president of the teachers union, she was a ...
The funding plea comes amid negotiations over a new teachers union contract and as a Senate committee hearing happens on extending a moratorium on school closings until 2027, approved by the House ...
April 29, 2024 at 2:56 PM. CHICAGO - Formal contract negotiations began Monday between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools. The CTU says the last three rounds of contract talks ...
The 2019 Chicago Public Schools strike was a labor dispute between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union (which represents the school district's teachers and some of the paraprofessional and school related personnel) and the Service Employees International Union Local 73 (which represents the district's support staff and a majority of the paraprofessional and school related ...
April 16, 2024 at 6:08 PM. CHICAGO - The Chicago Teachers Union officially released its contract demands Tuesday morning. The announcement comes more than a month after a leaked version of the ...
Chicago schools will expand COVID-19 testing and have standards to switch schools to remote learning under a hard-fought tentative deal approved by teachers' union leaders. Students were poised to ...
The Chicago Teachers Federation was an organization of women elementary school teachers founded in 1897. In its first few years, it ran a successful campaign to increase teacher pay, and its membership grew to 2,500. [1] In 1900, the CTF elected Catherine Goggin and Margaret Haley as its officers, deciding to pay them the same wages as those ...