God Bless. She attended Saint Marys College, the University of Notre Dame, and Concordia University. Sharkey announced Wednesday that he will step down when his term expires June 30. The ongoing pandemic has disproportionately affected Chicagos Black and brown residents, who make up close to 90 percent of CPS families. We felt like the system was being sabotaged by the people who were in charge of it, and the union was the one institution that had both the interest and the ability to do something about that. Chicago Teachers Union affiliations include the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL), the Illinois State Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (ISFL-CIO), the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT), and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). And the classroom teacher is tasked with making sense of it. We, teachers, and other educational personnel in the Chicago Public Schools, being members of the Chicago Teachers Union, do hereby declare this Union to have the following purposes: to protect and improve the services of the public schools as a social agency for developing the capacities of the young and promoting adult education; to promote and guarantee efficient and faithful service from us to the public and to insure to us in return for that service a fair reward and a just security; in accordance with the Agreement between the Board of Education of the City of Chicago and Chicago Teachers Union, to assert, secure, and protect the inherent and fundamental equity in our jobs; as the sole collective bargaining agent for members of the bargaining unit, to establish and maintain orderly and practicable democratic processes in the management of the Chicago public schools, in accordance with the terms of the Agreement; to maintain a relationship of mutual assistance and cooperation with organized labor; to unify the educators of traditional public schools and public charter schools in the City of Chicago, together with other Chicago-area educators that may join with this Union. May 24, 2022 | Blair Paddock. Chicago has closed or radically shaken up some 200 public schools, or a third of the district, since 2002, according to a WBEZ investigation. In addition to leading the political and legislative agendas for the CTU, Stacy is a regular contributor to radio shows and print publications. Belsha, Kalyn, Chicago teachers union leaders back Sanders, becoming latest to offer personal endorsements as unions tread carefully, Chalkbeat, March 04, 2020. Wagner Acerbi Horta and Brendan Rigney, Beyond the picket line: Union clout, tallied, Center for Illinois Politics, October 27, 2019. If the labor movements instinct has been to reduce demands in order to sound reasonable, the new CTU took the opposite approach, McAlevey wrote. Email Monica Trevino at Mtrevino@ift-aft.org. 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. [43], https://www.aft.org/periodical/psrp-reporter/fall-2015/form-more-perfect-union ^. Stacy Davis Gates. After her twelve-year career as a classroom educator, Stacy married her political ambitions with her passion for educational advocacy and joined the revitalized Chicago Teachers Union. Not just for the team of people I work with every day, but also for the members., She tries to imagine her grandmothers, as girls, imagining her. The E Board directs the work of the officers, sets the agenda for the House of Delegates, and makes decisions in emergencies. DJN. And I need you to see love as the essential tool to continue to transform this city, this state, this nation, and this world. That working parents are needlessly burdened by late-night union votes and canceled classes. In 2017, Davis Gates was elected chair of United Working Families, an independent political organization for working class people and movements. But Sharkey and Davis Gates also have come under fire from a group of educators calling themselves the Members First Caucus, who planned to challenge them in the May election. Before she was elected CTU president in 2022, Davis Gates served four years as vice president of the union. While at the CTU, Ms. Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. The CTU represents more than 25,000 teachers, paraprofessional and school-related personnel, and school clinicians working in the Chicago Public Schools and, by extension, the students and families they serve. What are the multiple roles of a successful introductory paragraph? And theyre like, No, its just for the honor kids. And shes like, Well, then I aint going. I mean, imagine being that kid in third grade or fifth grade whos like, No. I was hurt. And it also is paralyzing, because youre trying to make sense out of nonsense.. And if you show up and youre not serious, Stacy will get that within two seconds of being in a room. In response, the Chicago Public Schools said that teachers were only required to make basic accommodations rather than entirely new plans. Accessed June 02, 2020. Prior to her current role at the CTU, she served as the unions Political and Legislative Director. Age: 43 And she did go on the trip. Students would try you a lot, Kimbrough says. And someone with those qualitiessensitive, brilliant, cares a lot about justiceif youre a Black woman with those qualities, you get a lot of people who take umbrage., He recalls a story that Gates told him years ago about being the only Black girl in the gifted program at her South Bend elementary school. Im PROUD of you. Please settle up and move on., Says Gates: Im disappointed that in 2022 we still believe that Black people are a monolith and one-dimensional. Christel was a Chicago Teachers Union organizer during the 2012 strike, as well as the three-day march in 2013 and CTU Summer Organizing Institute prior to becoming a Union field representative in 2017. This whole country said at one point, postGeorge Floyd, that Black lives matter, she called out from the Jacqueline B. Vaughn Hall stage on that final night of February. $497.86: Less than $46,439* $721.68: Paraprofessionals and School-related Personnel: N/A: Accessed June 01, 2020. You are confronted with unparalleled grief., Stacys brilliant, Sharkey says. 2 was swinging the hammer, appearing before the cameras with the unwavering narrative that the well-being of students was the unions single overriding concern. Guidestar, Chicago Teachers Union, 2017 990. To submit a correction for our . In the fall of 2019, she helped to lead a 15-day strike and to negotiate an historic contract that provides for smaller class sizes, ensures a nurse and social worker in every Chicago public school, secures sanctuary protections for immigrant families, and supports students and families experiencing homelessness. Widely known as the firebrand counterpart to wonky union head Jesse Sharkey and viewed by some as at least as powerful among the rank and file this former CPS teacher gained a reputation for backing down to no one, not even Mayor Lightfoot, who reportedly resorted to barring her from final negotiations. The Chicago Teachers Union was established to represent the interest of teachers at Chicago, Illinois schools. Accessed June 01, 2020. I said survive. Prior to working on staff at CTU, Sharkey was a social studies teacher and a political activist. And shes not about to let anyone stand in her way. I am not a union member nor am I a teacher but if you knocked on my door with that speech, I would start paying Chicago Teachers Union dues. Accessed June 01, 2020. We sat at a table debating ventilation during an airborne pandemic. Youd see these kids going to school-closing hearings, singing, performing, saying, Please dont close our school. When the school closed in 2008, Gates moved to Roberto Clemente Community Academy in Ukrainian Village, a high school that had been tasked with absorbing students reassigned from Austin Community Academy High School, which was shuttered in 2007. [24], The Foundation was founded in 1969 when it received the Fewkes Tower a 29-story high rise building in Chicago from the Chicago Teachers Union, which had built the tower in 1963 to provide affordable housing to retired teachers. Shes on a one-woman kamikaze mission to destroy our public schools. She also called Lightfoot micromanaging and a bad boss in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and told the New York Times: She does not know how to play well with others., But beneath the tensionindeed, fueling the tensionis a fundamental disagreement over policy. They led every meeting with school-based discussions of billionaires, banks and racism., The union started partnering with community organizations known largely for fighting gentrificationthe Pilsen Alliance, Logan Square Neighborhood Alliance, Kenwood-Oakland Community Organizationto attend school board meetings and host community forums on school closures. Accessed June 01, 2020. The American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities. Action Network, CTU PAC. While the CTU mission is, ostensibly, to improve public education, most of the identified purposes of the CTU are related to improving compensation and protecting the job security of union members, as well as growing the union. While at the CTU, Ms. Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. [6], The Chicago Teachers Unions annual dues for 2019-2020 are $1,146.28 for each teacher. Accessed June 02, 2020. The CTUF has lost $2 million per year since the sale of the Fewkes Tower. It was the final day of Black History Month and Stacy Davis Gates needed to be in three places at once. While at the CTU, Ms. Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. chicago.suntimes.com. Before her election to the office of President in 2022, Ms. Davis Gates served for four years as Vice President of the Union. Chicago is a city that can leave behind, even devour, its young. [5], In the 2019 negotiation with Chicago, the CTUs key negotiating goals were the duration of the contract, increased support staff (including elimination of privatized nurses), reduced class sizes, increased compensation and benefits, and job security protections, including limiting some teacher evaluations and Principal authority over grading practices. Included in that spending was $300,000 to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle (D) for her Mayoral campaign. I need you to stay in love with the children in this school district. Assets: $16,818,501, The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is the teachers union for 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, and other public school employees in the Chicago, Illinois public school system, the third-largest school system in the United States. Accessed June 02, 2020. Chicago Teachers Union Foundation, Our History. Karen Lewis, a longtime chemistry teacher, was elected to lead the newly reform-minded CTU in 2010. Ms. Stacy Davis Gates is the Political and Legislative Director of the Chicago Teachers Union AFT Local 1. Accessed June 02, 2020. Chicago Tribune, August 20, 2019. to promote racial, economic and social justice in order to achieve educational justice and build community and labor coalitions to achieve that objective. The Chicago Teachers Federation was forced to leave the American Federation of Teachers. The Chicago Teachers Unions heir apparent sees herself as a righteous champion of not just educators but of students. At a press conference shortly after the majority of CTU members voted in January to work remotely, Lightfoot accused the union of turning Chicago into a laughingstock all across the country and declared: We will not pay you to abandon your posts and your children at a time when they and their families need us most. There are those who assertin letters to the editor, in editorials, in op-eds, on Twitter, from podiumsthat the CTUs fights actively harm children and families in Chicago. One-on-One with CTU President-Elect Stacy Davis Gates. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. Photo: CLARISSA BONET | HAIR AND MAKEUP: DENISE MILLOY/MAKEUP MAGIC INC. She also serves as a board member for the Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE), a nexus for organizations working at the intersection of the struggle for racial justice and Wall Street accountability. But she didnt play any games. STACY DAVIS GATES, DELEGATE. And she's not about to let anyone. When the . [10], In 1917, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the Loeb Rule was constitutional, and the CFT and Chicago Board of Education reached a settlement in which the fired teachers were rehired and CFT disaffiliated itself from other labor unions. They are demanding affordable housing for students, Washington Post, October 16, 2019. I would like to thank you for taking a stand,and expressing your thoughts and how to respond to the republican party. It felt familiar, she says, especially because I was teaching African American history that year. I think about them often in this work, she says. Blair Paddock | May 24, 2022 8:47 pm. Leone, Hannah, Chicago teacher who crossed the picket line during the strike is now suing the teachers union over dues payments, Chicago Tribune, May 07, 2020. Our courage, our organizing, our value are necessary in this moment.. Chicago Public Schools We are in love with humanity at this union. [3]. It makes you angry. 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The Chicago Teachers Union voted to go on strike on Oct. 17. Animosity between the CTU and the mayor, who controls the citys schools, often dominates the discourse around public education in Chicago. They are a measure that Duncan, who went on to become U.S. education secretary, exercised frequently during his eight-year stint as CEO and that Rahm Emanuel put to use as mayor. Chicago Teachers Union, 2019-2020 Dues. While the purpose of the Foundation was to support retired and disabled teachers, very few teachers ever lived at Fewkes Tower, and only seven of the 224 apartments in Fewkes Tower were occupied by retired CPS teachers when the building was sold by CTUF in 2014. Here she addresses the media on last day of the teachers strike on Oct. 31, 2019. Im disappointed that in 2022 we still believe that Black people are a monolith.. Before her election to the office of President in 2022, Ms. Davis Gates served for four years as Vice President of the Union. Grandmother Hazel died a week before her namesake was born. Stephanie Simon and James B. Kelleher, Analysis: Striking Chicago teachers take on national education reform, Reuters, September 10, 2012. These are people who represent institutions, and the institutions have conflict, and the conflict is about how resources get spent and whose opinions get to count and how power and money are spent. Members First is running, in part, on the belief that the union needs to have a better relationship with city officials. Prior to that, she served as the unions Political and Legislative Director. She sees work stoppages and strikes as the first step and not the last one. More change is coming in May, when the CTU selects its next leader. She was actually in sixth grade, Gates later clarifies. If someone mistreats her, she notices. It depresses you. We see our schools closed and defunded. 2020. Her paternal grandfather left Mississippi to work at a factory here, then left that job for one at a steel mill in Gary before eventually ending up at the Studebaker plant in South Bend, where he put down roots. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. Min. She is an IFT executive board vice president, member of the IFT Scholarship Committee and has served as co-chair of the IFT PSRP Constituency Committee and organizer of its bi-annual PSRP Constituency Conference. Bernie Sanders, also vying for the presidential nomination, attended a CTU rally before the strike. I feel real accountable for unpacking that. Students have lost parents, grandparents, and caregivers. But it was an early taste, she says, of airing a grievance, of pushing back on behalf of those who arent in the room. Chicago Teachers Union, CTU History. She was educated at Saint Marys College, the University of Notre Dame, and Concordia University. The hallways of Englewood High were lined with photos of notable alums: Harold Ickes, secretary of the interior under Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman; Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African American to be selected as an astronaut; Harold Bradley Sr., who was one of just 13 African American players in the National Football League before World War II; Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Then, two factions of CTU members emerged with plans to oust her and the Caucus of Rank-and-file . Accessed June 02, 2020. Gates is revered and resented in equal partsor at least at equal volume. Stacy Davis Gates Won't Back Down The Chicago Teachers Union's heir apparent sees herself as a righteous champion of not just educators but of students. Shouts of Talk, Stacy! filled the room. The UIC administration is offering raises of 17% over four years, averaging 4.25% per year, the union said. 1973: Two strikes, of 12 and 11 days, yield improved salary, benefits, preparation time, supplies, and class sizes. Neither issue stuck, but the negotiations forced the two sidesand everyone watching themto grapple with how learning and achieving are affected by far more than class size and pedagogy. Garcia lost. But the union's vice president, Stacy Davis Gates, said teachers are dealing with "severe staffing shortages" and a lack of mitigation measures against Covid-19. So I want you to stay encouraged, Chicago Teachers Union. Jesse Sharkey, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, will step down at the end of his term this summer after two tumultuous decades of involvement in union leadership that saw the organization become a political powerhouse. April 13, 2020, 10:37 pm. Dont be discouraged in the moment of great need. Accessed June 01, 2020. The couples son is named after his father. But they had an air of choreography, she says, of an outcome predetermined before anyone even spoke. The Chicago Teachers Union has some 20,000 teacher and clinician members. They are sort of the bedrock constituency of our public schools., Gates tells me she is focused on May 20on winning the top CTU spot and following in the footsteps of Lewis, her friend and role model, who shaped her management style. In fact, it irks her that theres an expectation that she and Lightfoot should get along because theyre both Black women. It felt like we were set up to take this fall because there were few investments, few supports, and timetables for achievement that they knew we couldnt meet. What We Know and What We Need to Learn, Michigan State University. She and her students attended the community meetings that were part of the school-closing process. The results were mixed for CTU. Stacy Davis Gates was elected president of the Chicago Teachers Union by members on Friday. She attended Saint Marys College, the University of Notre Dame, and Concordia University. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. When the CTU had the city nailed to the wall during last years 11-day-long strike, the unions No. [18], In addition to member-oriented benefits, the CTU also expanded its list of demands during the 2019 teacher strike to include a broader political goal: access to affordable housing. The U.S. Department of Education said that CTUs lawsuit was nothing more than political posturing for a headline. [21], In May 2020, the Chicago Teachers Union was sued by a Chicago teacher who was being forced to pay CTU dues despite crossing the picket line during the 2019 strike and withdrawing from CTU membership. Closures as a reform measure became an option in 1995, when Mayor Richard M. Daley gained control of the citys schools under a new state law. It was like a family. For nearly 20 years before becoming president of the teachers union, she was a high school chemistry teacher. Shes also extremely sensitive. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates was elected president of the union Friday following a months-long, hard-fought battle against two challengers to succeed outgoing. [37] In 2012, contract negotiations stalled over Mayor Emanuels proposal to use student test scores in teacher evaluations, as well as his effort to give principals more hiring authority. Gates took the stage. Press Inquires: In the absence of a union endorsement, two senior CTU leaders, Jesse Sharkey and Stacy Davis Gates, endorsed the Vermont Senator. So have their teachers. Subscribe for free today! Accessed June 02, 2020. Canceled classes spending was $ 300,000 to Cook County Board president Toni Preckwinkle ( D ) her! 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