7:59 a.m. CTU members be a part of picketing instructor assistants in Decatur
Instead of heading to Lincoln Yards to protest for a CPS contract Tuesday, handful of Chicago academics will likely be touring three hours south to Decatur to affix picket traces with the Decatur Teacher Assistants union, IFT Local 4325.
CTU has organized a “Solidarity Road Trip’ via shuttle bus for about 50 teachers. “The paraprofessionals of this union are in a tough spot,” the union wrote in an electronic mail to members. “Their school administration refuses to budge on health insurance and other issues. CTU, with IFT support is organizing to send a coach bus full of CTU members, to support these union members who are fighting for fair wages & health insurance benefits.”
According to the Decatur Herald & Review, the Decatur Teacher Assistants union represents about 276 listening to interpreters, licensed sensible nurses, hearing-vision technicians and educating assistants who’ve been working beneath a contract extension for the reason that tutorial 12 months began in August.
7:21 a.m. Lightfoot cancels go to to CPS contingency website
The mayor’s workplace has canceled a scheduled 8:15 a.m. look and media availability at South Side YMCA, 6330 S. Stony Island Ave., one among almost 700 websites throughout Chicago accepting CPS children whose colleges are closed because of the academics strike.
The electronic mail cites a “change of schedule” as the rationale for the cancellation.
6:55 a.m. Teachers transfer protests to Lincoln Yards
According to supplies distributed by the academics union obtained by the Sun-Times, putting academics are shifting their demonstrations from the picket traces at their respective colleges to the Lincoln Yards improvement website.
“We are targeting Lincoln Yards because it’s being funded in part by TIF money that should be going to our schools,” the CTU memo to union members learn. “If [Mayor Lori] Lightfoot wanted to settle the contract TODAY, she would only need to declare an additional TIF surplus to do so.”
Lightfoot beforehand addressed the query of whether or not Lincoln Yards was receiving cash that needs to be out there for college funding.
“We cannot strike a deal based on the illusion that there is Lincoln Yards money available that we can just shift somewhere else,” she mentioned Monday, Oct. 21, referring to greater than $1 billion in subsidies that have been dedicated to an enormous new improvement on the North Side — a course of which began beneath former Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “That’s not realistic and it just doesn’t work like that.”
Later in Monday night time’s memo, the union made one other comparability between the Lincoln Yards deal and instructor contract negotiations.
“Lincoln Yards got everything it wanted in writing. Why can’t we get everything our students deserve?”
6:14 a.m. Negotiations disintegrate Monday
A marathon bargaining session that lasted 16 hours and stored metropolis and union officers on the desk till 2 a.m. was not sufficient to finish Chicago’s academics strike and put the town’s 300,000 college students again in class.
Frustrated and exasperated negotiators from the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union emerged from behind closed doorways early Tuesday with out an settlement — regardless of saying they’d keep on the desk till they struck a deal.
LaTanya McDade, the district’s chief schooling officer and second in command to colleges chief Janice Jackson, mentioned the 2 sides “have gotten the closest that we’ve ever been” on the 2 key points of sophistication measurement and staffing, and that “those issues are within reach.”
But the union and faculty district stay “fundamentally far apart” on the problem of instructor preparation time, she mentioned.
The union issued a press launch shortly after 11 p.m. saying “the CTU bargaining team remains at the table and does not plan on leaving until they’ve managed to get a tentative agreement with CPS.”
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