Category Archives: News

published at 10:30 am Saturday, May 19, 2012

March with Labor Against NATO May 20

Money for Schools Not Drones! Libraries Not Weapons Clinics, Not Tanks JOBS NOT WAR!   When: Sunday, May 20th at 11:40 a.m. Where: Northwest Corner of Butler Park (Monroe & Lake Shore Drive) Join the Occupy Chicago Labor Working Group for a unified union contingent on May 20 to send a strong message of opposition [...]

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published at 5:36 pm Saturday, May 12, 2012

Join the CTU in a Historic Rally!

Wednesday May 23, 2012 Auditorium Theatre 50 East Congress CTU Members Only Join with thousands of CTU members for a huge membership meeting, to be followed by a short march and rally downtown.  CTU Officers will share important bargaining updates and our members will have important decisions to make. If we don’t come together and [...]

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published at 4:32 pm Saturday, May 12, 2012

Traitors, Spies and Scabs Will Not Be Tolerated

Citywide Delegate Marc Wigler has been expelled from the Chicago Teachers Union for life. Wigler represented citywide members in the CTU House of Delegates before his expulsion. Wigler had been identified through emails he had sent to Chicago Public Schools labor relations chief Rachel Resnick reporting on the activities during the CTU House of Delegates [...]

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published at 3:19 pm Saturday, May 12, 2012

CTU Members Show Discontent With Proposed Contract and CEO Brizard

CTU members overwhelmingly voiced their frustrations with the Board/CPS proposed contract and CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard this week. On Thursday May 10 CTU ran a Contract Poll in all CPS schools asking its 25,000 members to vote yes or no on four questions regarding the contract and CEO Brizard. CTU results show that 90% of [...]

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published at 3:06 pm Saturday, May 12, 2012

Come to the People’s Summit (against NATO) this Saturday from 10am-7:30pm and Sunday 10am- 5pm! CORE and CTU have workshops!

http://www.peoplessummitchicago.org/ SCHEDULE Saturday, May 12 9:00 a.m. Registration opens 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.: Plenary 1 NATO/G8: Their Agenda of War and Austerity 11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.: Workshop Block 1 Lunch Break 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.: Workshop Block 2 4:00 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.: Plenary 2 Building a Movement for the 99% 7:30 p.m.: [...]

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published at 12:10 am Tuesday, April 10, 2012

STAND UP TO STAND!

Stand for Children is an organization dedicated to union busting and the privatization of our schools.  Don’t allow them to continue their unethical work of destroying neighborhood schools and buying off local politicians to do their dirty work. They also receive most of their money from billionaires and millionaires who don’t want to pay their [...]

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published at 12:16 pm Tuesday, April 3, 2012

We need some CORE members at this event!

Please RSVP to coreteachers@gmail.com with Fight Back EAG in the subject line immediately if you can help out! This film is a direct attack on CTU. CORE is looking to get 20 people to attend.  We need to take Juan Williams and the Education Action Group on! A tale of two missions: Join us on April 5 for a discussion with [...]

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published at 9:10 pm Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Is Your School Ready If a Strike Is Called?

Striking is not a dirty word. Striking is not the fallback of the workshy. Striking is not lazy, selfish, stupid, pointless, antagonistic nor any of the other criticisms levelled by anti-union and anti-teacher blowhards. Going on strike is one of the very last ways we have in the current world of work to make people who [...]

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published at 8:51 pm Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Standing Together for Public Pensions

The Chicago Teachers Pension Fund has released its Pension Legislation Fact Sheet. It includes information on five bills for Springfield and what will be the member lobby day leave behind. Members should download the document below and share with others. The fact sheet provides an opportunity to educate the public about our pensions and help dispel the [...]

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published at 4:14 pm Sunday, March 25, 2012

Arts for All: All Students, All Arts, All Schools

DEAR CORE members, Support the fact that we can have a better school day with ARTS for ALL Chicago Schools. Please log on to our FACEBOOK page and click LIKE and leave a comment:ARTS for ALL Chicago Schools Arts for All:   All Students, All Arts, All Schools 1. Visit our FACE Book Page and click LIKE [...]

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