Despite being “surprised” by “Best Fact-Khoj Report” to date, the Chicago Teachers Union on Wednesday rejected the recommendations of a neutral facts for a new, four-year contract.
Instead, the Sangh said that it would return to the bargaining table with a plan to reach an agreement with Chicago Public Schools as the recommendations addressed only 15 issues that the Sangh raised in a brief of 86-positions last month. The Sangh was presented to the Fact-Khoj Martin Malin. , A employment law expert.
However, those two recommendations confirmed the status of CTU that despite the contrast claims, the district has revenue to promote salary and employees, as the Sangh has proposed, the Union officials have a news conference on Wednesday by the Union officials. said in.
CTU President Stasi Davis Gates appeared grateful with his team standing with his team.
“We have a landing place for this contract,” Gates told reporters. “We can complete it. If we look at the percentage points we are separating, they are minuscule, ”he said.
Fact-fixing is an advanced step in the labor contract negotiations in which a third-party law reviews the briefs presented by the Union Association and the Chicago Public Schools and then recommends the ways of agreeing on the two sides. Bringing into an independent mediator to review the arguments of both sides is an essential step when the union can go on strike. The Union’s contract ended in late June. Ctu and district have been negotiating a new contract since April.
The Sangh has repeatedly stated that the Code of the Illinois Labor Relations Act in 2010 is a barrier to the employer rather than the employee.
In the 16-page Fact-Finding Report released on Wednesday evening, Professor Emeritus at Chicago-Kent College of Law and a professor emeritus of its Institute for Law and the Workplace, Malin did not make recommendations for other remaining contract sticking points, such as According to CTU Attorney Latoyia Kimbro, teacher evaluation, prep-time and class size, to return them to two groups to return them. He left the Sangh “no choice”, he said, but to reject the report, publicly released, and returned to the bargaining table with a plan to reach an agreement.
The arbitration report “explosion” the district’s claim that it could not afford to put more financial resources in schools and recommend significant improvement in “teacher compensation” and “additional staffing required for schools”, CTU’s Deputy Council Thad Goodchilde said at Wednesday’s news conference.
CPS, which is currently decreasing by $ 500 million, has long maintained that during the first two years of the contract and to promote salary up to 5% to hire thousands of new teachers and assistant employees. There is a lack of funds to meet the demands of the union.
“We do not have a way to pay for 1,000 additional posts, even if they are on the ramp,” CPS Chief Talent Officer Ben Felton said on January 30. There are very valid questions about our ability to borrow money. ,
In an email Wednesday night statement to the tribune, the CPS stated that it shares the Sangh’s view that the fact-khoj report “will help both sides come into an agreement.”
However, the “fully and objectives” recommendations of the fact-Khose underline the “financial obstacles” of the district, a perspective “confirmed by an independent review by the Civic Federation, according to the statement.
The district is carefully reviewing the recommendations made to determine the most effective syllabus of action in talks, “the statement continued, and” is dedicated to providing “teachers with compensation, equipment and resources, They are entitled, ensuring that it has been obtained in one, according to the statement, in a durable and fickle manner.
Now that the fact-khose report is public, CTU and the district have entered the 30-day cooling-off period, after which the union can issue a 10-day strike notice. Under the Illinois Labor Relations Act, a teacher may strike as soon as possible, in mid -March.
However, the Sangh has said that it does not want to strike.
Davis Gates told reporters last month to force the Sangh’s hand “would be a very cruel and meaning joke.”
During Wednesday’s press conference, CTU officials said they would return to the bargaining table despite “deadlock”, convicting District CEO Pedro Martinez. He hopes that the report of facts and facts will help the CP “being serious on the table” and motivate to move towards a contract to deal with.
“CEO Martinez was waiting for facts. Well, the facts have happened, and now it is over, ”Kimru of CTU said. “CEO Martinez and his team now need to show differently on the table and let’s get it done.”
While CTU officials said on Wednesday that they hoped that fact-khose reports will motivate Martinez to “change their tune”, they are not waiting. In the coming weeks, they will brief stakeholders, including the team of Mayor Brandon Johnson, members of the city council, and the public, including the Board of Education, including the Board of Education, and the public.
Since 2010, the Sangh and CPS have moved into fact-khoj during three pre-contract negotiations, two of which went on strike in 2016 and 2019.