Special CTU Contract Briefing
The Board of Education Chose Not to Extend the Current Contract for 3% Raises.
They want to take about 10% of our salaries through Benefit Changes!
The Board has rescinded the 7% pension pickup, accepted by the CTU in the 80s instead of raises due the teachers. They also want to renegotiate healthcare premiums and co-pays with demands that would likely eat up about 3% of our salary.
THE BOARD REJECTED THE BULK OF CTU PROPOSALS, SUCH AS:
- Vermin removal and air quality control (they said they need flexibility on this)
- A library for every school
- Restorative justice coordinators
- Proposal to reduce the substitute teacher shortage by allowing and encouraging teachers to bank benefit days
- Class size and proper staffing for teachers, clinicians and PSRPs
- Strengthened layoff rights and protections for rank and file union advocates
- Appropriate funding for special education students in least restrictive environment
- Moving excessive Teach for America fees to the successful Grow Your Own program that supports PSRPs pursuing teacher certification
- Return daily prep time before student arrival
- Expand Pre-K
- Expansion of extracurricular and sports programs
- PSRP rights to have evaluations fairly reviewed by a neutral evaluation board
- Parental leave for 4 weeks
- Limited Compliance paperwork to a level that can be completed during our teacher prep time designated as principal-directed
THE BOARD WANTS TO TAKE AWAY CURRENT PROVISIONS, SUCH AS:
- Safeguards to defend against unfair discipline
- The right of specialists and more experienced teachers to first refusal for summer school jobs
- They even want to add mandatory after-school meetings requiring teachers stay two extra hours each month
THE BOARD REFUSES TO EVEN BARGAIN OVER KEY PROPOSALS:
- Limits on standardized testing to only those tests mandated by the State (the Board claimed this was 'illegal')
- $15 per hour for all CPS workers (calling the demand 'illegal')
- Removing costly police presence in schools were no written plan mandates their presence
- Protection of promises pensions, claiming 'no responsible stakeholder' would support this
- Moratorium on school closings, turnarounds and reconstitutions
- Basic union rights for educators at charter schools, claiming they are powerless to make charter managers comply
- Joint lobbying for an elected school board for responsible revenue sources that fairly tax the biggest profit takers
The Board of Education Chose Not to Extend the Current Contract for 3% Raises.
They want to take about 10% of our salaries through Benefit Changes!
The Board has rescinded the 7% pension pickup, accepted by the CTU in the 80s instead of raises due the teachers. They also want to renegotiate healthcare premiums and co-pays with demands that would likely eat up about 3% of our salary.
THE BOARD REJECTED THE BULK OF CTU PROPOSALS, SUCH AS:
- Vermin removal and air quality control (they said they need flexibility on this)
- A library for every school
- Restorative justice coordinators
- Proposal to reduce the substitute teacher shortage by allowing and encouraging teachers to bank benefit days
- Class size and proper staffing for teachers, clinicians and PSRPs
- Strengthened layoff rights and protections for rank and file union advocates
- Appropriate funding for special education students in least restrictive environment
- Moving excessive Teach for America fees to the successful Grow Your Own program that supports PSRPs pursuing teacher certification
- Return daily prep time before student arrival
- Expand Pre-K
- Expansion of extracurricular and sports programs
- PSRP rights to have evaluations fairly reviewed by a neutral evaluation board
- Parental leave for 4 weeks
- Limited Compliance paperwork to a level that can be completed during our teacher prep time designated as principal-directed
THE BOARD WANTS TO TAKE AWAY CURRENT PROVISIONS, SUCH AS:
- Safeguards to defend against unfair discipline
- The right of specialists and more experienced teachers to first refusal for summer school jobs
- They even want to add mandatory after-school meetings requiring teachers stay two extra hours each month
THE BOARD REFUSES TO EVEN BARGAIN OVER KEY PROPOSALS:
- Limits on standardized testing to only those tests mandated by the State (the Board claimed this was 'illegal')
- $15 per hour for all CPS workers (calling the demand 'illegal')
- Removing costly police presence in schools were no written plan mandates their presence
- Protection of promises pensions, claiming 'no responsible stakeholder' would support this
- Moratorium on school closings, turnarounds and reconstitutions
- Basic union rights for educators at charter schools, claiming they are powerless to make charter managers comply
- Joint lobbying for an elected school board for responsible revenue sources that fairly tax the biggest profit takers
Thanks Jim for your reporting, news and information!
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