6:53 a.m. Schools workers feeling the pinch
As the times with out pay add up for hanging lecturers, safety guards and different college employees, many say they’re beginning to really feel the pinch of their pocketbooks.
Neither CTU nor SEIU Local 73, which represents hanging help workers, has a strike fund to cowl misplaced wages. Officials with each unions, although, stated Wednesday they’re now trying into whether or not such funds might be arrange briefly order to supply aid to employees.
Meanwhile, Chicago Public Schools may cease contributing to lecturers’ medical insurance premiums as early as subsequent week when the month ends.
Married {couples} who work for CPS face a double-whammy.
Both Anna Davis, a particular ed classroom assistant, and her husband, Jay Davis, a safety guard, are on strike. “We’re saving all of our pennies right now,” she stated. “We’re still living paycheck to paycheck.”
Mitch Dudek and Matthew Hendrickson talked to lecturers in regards to the private value of hanging.
6:36 a.m. Lightfoot on downtown demonstrations: ‘I don’t embarrass simply’
One week into the lecturers strike, 300,000 Chicago Public School college students are going through their sixth time out of the classroom. Meanwhile, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has vowed that town is not going to bail out the varsity system to safe a lecturers contract.
Speaking to the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board after her first price range handle, Lightfoot stated the varsity district has “got to live within their means, whatever those means are and they can’t exceed that, and look to the city to bail them out,” Lightfoot stated.
The union’s requests, together with staffing ensures and smaller class sizes, have been estimated to value $2.four billion over three years. Based on the district’s present provide on the desk, about $500 million per 12 months could be added to the district’s prices by the top of a possible five-year deal in 2024. The begin of the settlement could be cheaper, however ramped-up staffing over time would make it costlier. The present CTU contract prices $2.6 billion yearly.
Lightfoot declined to foretell when the present strike would possibly finish or whether or not it’ll go longer than the final main walkout in 2012, when lecturers picketed for seven college days throughout Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s first time period.
Asked if she was embarrassed by the downtown rally that might be heard inside City Hall and in surrounding skyscrapers Wednesday, Lightfoot stated, “Protest is a part of Chicago history. … And I don’t embarrass easily.”
Lauren FitzPatrick and Nader Issa have extra of Lightfoot’s remarks Wednesday because the strike continues.
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