The CTU Delegate & School Leaders Training held at Crane H.S. met on Saturday March 10th. According to the recent progress this is what the board is proposing...
- A 5-year contract with only a 2%
raise guaranteed.
- A pay freeze for teachers
- A pay freeze for teachers
- No more raises until we agree to testing-based Merit pay
- A longer school day and year, but a DECREASE in prep time, PD, and no additional resources
-An end to accumulated sick days (not sure of the details here)
- Increased health care costs
- No job security - tenured teachers who are laid off from closing schools would get no rehire rights and arbitrary systems, which make it easier to fire even the best of teachers.
This after a supreme court ruled 5-2 to up hold “The right of [a CPS] principal to decide who is going to fill a vacancy,’’ said CPS attorney James Franczek. A tenured Chicago Public School teachers laid off for economic reasons in 2010 does not have the right to be rehired to new jobs, unlike other teachers in the state.
The message that seems to be lost here is the history of what the CTU has won for us and what benfits many teachers take for granted:
Class size
Medical care and Benefits (including a more fair maternity leave policy)
School day length
Stipend after school positions
Coaching pay
Amount of preps allotted
Professional Problem Solving Committee
Etc...
The message that seems to be lost here is the history of what the CTU has won for us and what benfits many teachers take for granted:
Class size
Medical care and Benefits (including a more fair maternity leave policy)
School day length
Stipend after school positions
Coaching pay
Amount of preps allotted
Professional Problem Solving Committee
Etc...
If any of you are lucky enough to have teachers in your building who were around during any previous negotiations or strikes, please take the time to talk to them. Ask your union delegates for information about what was won previously when and how. You may be surprised to find out the benefits we currently enjoy, and even be more surprised at how recently these benefits have been granted to us.
-Martin Luther King Jr.-
This seems like the continuation of a beautiful friendship...
Many teachers I work with are either retired or now in admin and I would fee uncomfortable talking to admin about union issues. All the teachers I work with are roughly 2-5 year teachers. I have only three myself, but I never thought about materinity leave. I assume it was from the city medical plan, right?
ReplyDeleteDid you catch the video of karen lewis on the CTU website? District 299 has her press conference up as well. Now, we seem to have ourselves a bit of a standoff. Gonna be an interesting May.
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