Afternoon Briefing: Chicago Teachers Union unveils contract demands
Good afternoon, Chicago.
With the Chicago Teachers Union contract expiring in June, members of the 30,000-strong union gathered today to unveil teachers’ contract proposals as the district and CTU begin bargaining for a four-year renewal.
“What you’re going to see today is a long and lengthy list of everything and then some,” CTU President Stacy Davis Gates said at a Tuesday morning news conference. “It’s not just our economic proposals,” she said of demands to pay the union’s workforce of predominantly women “their fair share” and to raise the floor for paraprofessionals such as clerks and teacher assistants who are the lowest wage earners in the union.
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