City College Cuts

Adult Educators to Protest City Colleges Wednesday

The educators in the Chicago City Colleges who teach GED and ESL classes to learn English will protest in front of City Hall Wednesday, September 16 from 2:30 - 3:30 pm because of massive cuts.

The protest is organized by AFSCME 3506 union members and their protest is intended for Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the City Council members.

"We must raise our voice collectively," they stated.

The protest will take place in front of City Hall at 121 North LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago.

People can contact union vice president Carlos Aulet if they have any questions about the protest - djaulet1@gmail.com

Safety precautions will be followed, including wearing a mask at all times, with the union providing hand sanitizer, as well as gloves and water.

The protest will take place because City Colleges Chancellor Juan Salgado has made multiple cuts to the Adult Education program during his tenure and now during the pandemic. His decisions have caused major financial instability for the ESL and GED students and Adult Ed instructors.

"The Chancellor’s orchestrated incompetence includes: refusal to pay for hours worked, arbitrary allocation of remote learning courses, systematic discrimination against instructors with seniority, approximately one thousand students who applied for fall 2020 registration were not assigned classes," the union stated.

This protest comes during a nurses strike at UIC Hospital where they complain the nurses have too many patients and not enough protective equipment against the Covid-19 virus. Many nurses have gotten sick with the virus.