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  • Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1%
    Howard Ryan
    Dec 26 2011 - 10:02am

    Rahm Emanuel, whom Occupy Chicago dubbed Mayor 1%, fired a shot at the city’s public schools this month. He proposed to close schools, fire teachers and staff, and hand over space to charter schools. A transformed teachers union is fighting back.

  • Education Reform: The Real Deal

    Tired of being scapegoats for all the ills of the public schools, 200 teachers from 15 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico were in Chicago July 6 for the National Conference to Fight Back for Public Education.

  • Reformers To Lead Chicago Teachers
    Paul Abowd
    Jun 21 2010 - 6:48am

    Just days after the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) won the June 11 election to lead the Chicago Teachers Union, the reformers were out in front of the Board of Education for an emergency picket against the district’s plan to boost class sizes to 35 and lay off thousands of teachers.

  • Chicago Teachers Hit Core Issues Before Union Election

    Thirty thousand Chicago teachers and para-professionals will vote for new union leadership May 21. Four slates are challenging the Chicago Teachers Union incumbents, who have come under fire for a lack of transparency and an unwillingness to mobilize against the city’s school privatization plan. Seventy schools have closed in eight years, and the union has lost 6,000 members, while dozens of non-union charter schools crop up in their place.

  • Chicago's Rank and File Educators Well-Positioned Against “Play it Safe” Incumbents
    by Paul Abowd
    Jun 7 2010 - 12:16pm

    Following a huge march against Chicago's corporate restructuring of schools, teacher reformers are focused on a runoff vote to lead the union in a new direction.

  • Labor Notes Joins Public Sector Workers in Chicago

    Before the trick or treating began last Saturday in Chicago, 65 labor activists met at the United Electrical Workers hall to tackle the “zombie economics” of the free market, which has put the Illinois budget on its back.