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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 ...
More than 300,000 Chicago students will miss another day of classes as contract talks between striking teachers and the school district remain at an impasse. Chicago Public Schools announced ...
The head of Chicago's teachers' union and Mayor Lori Lightfoot met on Thursday to try to resolve one of the last sticking points in an 11-day strike - whether to make up class days lost by the ...
The strike is Chicago's first major walkout by teachers since 2012 and city officials announced early Wednesday that all classes had been canceled for Thursday in hopes of giving more planning ...
In spring of 2018, the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Association of Charter Teachers and Staff Local 4343 voted to merge, with the charter educators forming a new division within the CTU. On December 4, 2018, CTU members at the Acero charter school network initiated the first strike at a unionized charter school in US history.
Striking Chicago public school teachers reported some headway at the bargaining table on Friday in a contract dispute focused on reducing class sizes and other issues that would benefit students.
In the first week of February, teachers staged "walk-ins" at schools and some protested at the West Virginia Capitol. [12] The strike proved successful, and inspired those in other states to strike as well. [13] In early April, Oklahoma became the second state to strike, making it the first time a teacher's strike was held in the state since ...
The strike in the nation's third-largest school district came after the Chicago Teachers Union confirmed Wednesday night that its 25,000 members would not return to their classrooms.