Post by Logan on Apr 2, 2016 21:43:44 GMT -6
Chicago Teachers Union tries to leverage momentum from walkout
As demonstrators left downtown streets late Friday, the Chicago Teachers Union was left to figure out how to leverage its one-day strike to achieve a new contract and increased funding for education from the state.
"I don't think that's entirely landed yet," CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said Friday when asked about the union's next move. "But trying to generate attention and a sense of urgency is the point.
"Now we've got to keep the momentum going. The protests started a process that is critical and needed."
The CTU and Chicago Public Schools remain in contract negotiations, which are in a final phase that ends in May. If an agreement isn't reached by then, an open-ended strike is a possibility.
Union members and their supporters cast Friday's protests as a step toward building a populist coalition to advance a labor-led agenda for more government funding and gaining advantage over political adversaries led by Gov. Bruce Rauner.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-teachers-union-walkout-0403-20160401-story.html
As demonstrators left downtown streets late Friday, the Chicago Teachers Union was left to figure out how to leverage its one-day strike to achieve a new contract and increased funding for education from the state.
"I don't think that's entirely landed yet," CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said Friday when asked about the union's next move. "But trying to generate attention and a sense of urgency is the point.
"Now we've got to keep the momentum going. The protests started a process that is critical and needed."
The CTU and Chicago Public Schools remain in contract negotiations, which are in a final phase that ends in May. If an agreement isn't reached by then, an open-ended strike is a possibility.
Union members and their supporters cast Friday's protests as a step toward building a populist coalition to advance a labor-led agenda for more government funding and gaining advantage over political adversaries led by Gov. Bruce Rauner.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-teachers-union-walkout-0403-20160401-story.html