Post by Logan on Apr 21, 2016 17:47:46 GMT -6
The state’s Education Labor Relations Board on Thursday ruled in favor of Chicago Board of Education in its complaint about the Chicago Teachers Union’s April 1 walkout which the school district deemed “illegal.”
The ruling, however, won’t make a dent in the union’s threat to strike as soon as May 16 should the two sides not come to a contract agreement. The labor board’s decision references actions or strikes completed before a fact-finding report. That has now happened in the contract dispute between CTU and CPS. After it was released Saturday, CTU shot it down almost immediately.
The 4-1 ruling on Thursday by the labor board means the union is barred from future strikes before ompleting the fact-finding process. CPS CEO Forrest Claypool filed the complaint after teachers staged a massive walk-out on April 1, which also involved a downtown rally.
Claypool had always called the April 1 action “illegal.”
Read more: chicago.suntimes.com/news/labor-board-votes-to-stop-ctu-from-future-illegal-strikes/
The ruling, however, won’t make a dent in the union’s threat to strike as soon as May 16 should the two sides not come to a contract agreement. The labor board’s decision references actions or strikes completed before a fact-finding report. That has now happened in the contract dispute between CTU and CPS. After it was released Saturday, CTU shot it down almost immediately.
The 4-1 ruling on Thursday by the labor board means the union is barred from future strikes before ompleting the fact-finding process. CPS CEO Forrest Claypool filed the complaint after teachers staged a massive walk-out on April 1, which also involved a downtown rally.
Claypool had always called the April 1 action “illegal.”
Read more: chicago.suntimes.com/news/labor-board-votes-to-stop-ctu-from-future-illegal-strikes/