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Chicago Lecturers Union Members Approve Deal To Push Common Wage Over 4,000
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Chicago Lecturers Union Members Approve Deal To Push Common Wage Over $114,000

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By Tycoon Herald 5 Min Read Published April 15, 2025
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Chicago Lecturers Union Members Approve Deal To Push Common Wage Over 4,000
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Chicago’s public college lecturers have overwhelmingly accredited a four-year labor contract to boost their common wage to greater than $114,000 per 12 months.

Chicago Lecturers Union leaders introduced Monday that 85% of CTU members participated within the election, and 97% of those that voted forged ballots in favor of the tentative settlement.

CTU president Stacy Davis Gates cited the union’s democratic course of and thanked members for his or her sturdy participation.

“Last Thursday and Friday, they voted in overwhelming, historic levels to ratify this (tentative agreement) to a contract. This agreement was bargained by 65 rank-and-file members of our union, people who are educating your children right now,” Gates stated.

Mailee Smith, senior director of labor coverage and workers legal professional on the Illinois Coverage Institute, stated CTU spent years pushing for this type of large contract and taxpayers will likely be caught paying for it.

“They bankrolled [Chicago Mayor Brandon] Johnson into office in order to get a sweet deal, and it’s to the tune of $1.5 billion on the backs of taxpayers,” Smith informed The Middle Sq..

CTU monetary secretary Maria Moreno stated the election was carried out by paper poll at over 500 CPS faculties and central places. Moreno stated the outcomes confirmed historic assist and unity.

“That’s what it means to care about your schools. That’s what it means to see that what we won is coming out to vote,” Moreno stated.

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To be able to forged a poll, voters have been required to current state-issued identification and proof of CTU membership.

The Chicago Board of Schooling could make the labor contract official at its subsequent assembly, which is scheduled for April 24. The common wage for CPS lecturers would rise to $114,429 earlier than the deal expires.

Union leaders aimed criticisms at each Washington D.C.  Republicans and Chicago Democrats at Monday’s CTU press convention.

Chicago Federation of Labor President Bob Reiter stated President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Schooling Linda McMahon are deconstructing schooling infrastructure.

“And what that means is, we’re no longer gonna be able to depend on the Department of Education to lead us nationally,” Reiter stated.

Gates was requested if she was nervous about Chicago probably dropping schooling funding from federal taxpayers attributable to suggestions by the Division of Authorities Effectivity and adjustments on the Division of Schooling.

“Let me tell you why I’m not worried. What DOGE and Elon Musk are doing to America is what Paul Vallas, Arne Duncan, Rahm Emanuel already did in Chicago,” Gates stated.

“Think about everything that we’ve been fighting: school closings, the privatization of schools, the firing of women, Black women in particular,” Gates stated.

Gates criticized Duncan and Emanuel a number of occasions in the course of the information convention.

Duncan served as CPS CEO earlier than changing into U.S. Secretary of Schooling below President Barack Obama. Emanuel was a U.S. congressman and Obama’s chief of workers earlier than serving as mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019.

Vallas is a former CPS CEO who misplaced the 2023 mayoral runoff election to Brandon Johnson.

Associated: Chicago Lecturers Union Boss Says College Selection Is for ‘Racists’ However Sends Son to Non-public College

If the varsity board approves the contract, present Chicago Public Faculties CEO Pedro Martinez stated the board must go an modification to fund the primary 12 months of the deal.

Martinez stated the settlement offers lecturers their largest annual raises in over 13 years and permits the district so as to add a whole bunch of further workers members.

CPS at the moment spends about $20,000 in taxpayer funds per pupil yearly. 

Syndicated with permission from The Middle Sq..

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