Accessed June 02, 2020. I have enormous respect for the load Lightfoot and Gates carry, Sive wrote, but were tired, girlfriends. 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. CTU is a local union of the American Federation of Teachers, the countrys second-largest national teachers union. You may use these HTML tags and attributes:

, Enter your email address to receive new and updated COAL website news articles. In response, the Chicago Public Schools said that teachers were only required to make basic accommodations rather than entirely new plans. It made me feel powerless. [26], In 2018, despite the infusion of $48 million from the sale of the building just a few years prior, the CTUF cut back, reducing its grants from $1.9 million to 50 grantees in 2017 to $1 million to 37 grantees in 2018. Students would try you a lot, Kimbrough says. Their daughters, Laura and Hazel, are named after Gatess grandmothers, both of whom picked cotton to earn money. You need to run for public office. Stacy Davis Gatesis the Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union and the Executive Vice President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers. It was like a family. She showed up to cheer on the football team on Friday nights. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. The Chicago Teachers Unions heir apparent sees herself as a righteous champion of not just educators but of students. [33], CTU and CTU PAC paid $316,000 to United Working Families, a labor-union-aligned political organization funded by CTU and SEIU Healthcare Illinois/Indiana, to conduct organizing and advocacy in line with the policies and candidates supported by the Chicago Teachers Union. Chicago Teachers Union, Officers. But they had an air of choreography, she says, of an outcome predetermined before anyone even spoke. Accessed June 02, 2020. Accessed June 01, 2010. 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. 1969: Two-day strike results in salary increases, teacher aides, and class size maximum. In 2012, teachers went on strike for seven days. Teachers strikes are not new to this city. I was angry. She has very fine antennae and a finely honed sense of justice about whats right and fair, Sharkey says. 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. This outcome led the CFT to prioritize collective bargaining rights as a primary goal. I can think of no one Id personally like to run the union more, but thats a decision our members get to make., Sharkey, 52, has been floated as a possible mayoral candidate. Christel Williams is a 25-year veteran of Chicago Public Schools, serving as a PSRP delegate, district supervisor, functional vice president and American Federation of Teachers-Illinois Federation of Teachers (AFT-IFT) convention delegate in that time. Before she was elected CTU president in 2022, Davis Gates served four years as vice president of the union. While a victory for the teachers union, the concessions came at a significant cost estimated at about $500 million to Chicagos already-shaky financial condition. Stacy says, What about the rest of the kids? Sharkey recounts. Accessed June 01, 2020. In fall 2019, she helped lead a 15-day strike and negotiate a 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. If the labor movements instinct has been to reduce demands in order to sound reasonable, the new CTU took the opposite approach, McAlevey wrote. That working parents are needlessly burdened by late-night union votes and canceled classes. Or, Omicrons peaking. Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates speaks as the CTU and the local school council held a news conference on Sept. 28, 2021, outside Jensen Elementary School in North Lawndale. The CTU represents Chicago area teachers in regular collective bargaining contract agreements. In addition to leading the political and legislative agendas for the CTU, Stacy is a regular contributor to radio shows and print publications. Chicago Teachers Union Foundation, About. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. South Side of Chicago . $497.86: Less than $46,439* $721.68: Paraprofessionals and School-related Personnel: N/A: While at the CTU, Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. Under famous union leader Margaret Haley (known as the Lady Labor Slugger), the CTF recognized that it needed to persuade political officials to achieve these goals. We see the surveillance and pain in our neighborhoods. So we have to be astute historians and know that our voice is necessary to this moment. You are confronted with different children from different households coming inside a school community who are processing rape and violence and trauma in so many different ways. When you hear my fire, you hear Hazel. Dont be discouraged in the moment of great need. Tara Stamps, a CTU administrator and daughter of the late community activist Marion Nzinga Stamps, was onstage introducing the Jammin for PEACE speakers and performers. It had to do with finding human connections., Kimbrough was in Gatess first African American history class. Davis Gates has also spearheaded successful statewide legislative campaigns to pass the strongest charter school accountability measures in the country, to restore the bargaining rights of Chicago Public Schools employees, and to fully fund public education by ending tax loopholes for the 1%. Chicago Teachers Union vice president Stacy Davis Gates talks about the looming vote to decide whether members will work remotely, in opposition to the schoo. Ms. Gates, outstanding articulation of concise and pointed perspectives given on WCPT 820 AM on 10/18. Under Board President Jacob Loeb, the Chicago Board of Education passed a rule (The Loeb Rule) prohibiting teachers from joining any labor union or similar organization. She is also the Executive Vice President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and an Executive Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers. While at the CTU, Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. You dont need notes to talk to your family.. They were a constant in a time when things were just all over the place. Thank you so much for everything you do. Age: 43 Davis Gates lives on the South Side of Chicago with her husband and three children. My credibility came slowly, and it had nothing to do with my instruction or my understanding of content, she says. The Federation challenged this rule in court, with mixed results. Some notable people were looking on. 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. 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. They would have you to believe that Black lives, queer lives dont matter in this country. (I was told you have to be a good writer to be an attorney.) She volunteered with an Urban League program that connected her to local middle school kids, and she felt pulled toward child advocacy. The CTU represents its members through collective bargaining for compensation, benefits, employee work conditions, and school governance. [8], In 1916, the Chicago Teacher Federation founded the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and became the Local 1. 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. In Gatess office at CTU headquarters, a Notorious SDG print with her likeness hangs above her deska riff on those Notorious RBG prints that were ubiquitous for a while. But, she argues, historical wrongs arent quickly righted. Neither side backs down from the fight. Item 6 on the CTU mission expresses a purpose of enlarging the CTU by incorporating charter school educators, as well as other Chicago-area educators that may join with this Union. In 2018, the CTU was successful in adding the 1,000 members of the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff to a division within the CTU, though other charter school teacher labor unions remained independent of the CTU. It was all I could do to refrain from leaping up from my desk at work and cheering. May 24, 2022 | Blair Paddock. It was simple: Someone did something wrong, there was an investigation and they always got the wrong guy, and Perry always got them off. Stacy Davis Gates has served as the Political and Legislative Director for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) for the past six years. Staff reporter, Teachers Strike Puts Obama In Political Bind, NBC Chicago, September 10, 2012. Chicago Tribune, August 20, 2019. Im not going on your field trip because its not fair.. I would like to thank you for taking a stand,and expressing your thoughts and how to respond to the republican party. Included in that spending was $300,000 to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle (D) for her Mayoral campaign. 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. Occupation: Vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union. Advertisement. From milquetoast to militant is how Jane F. McAlevey described the unions evolution in her 2016 book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. [19] Ultimately, when the 11-day strike ended, the city of Chicago declined to incorporate housing policy into the contract with CTU. And also really scared. Guidestar, Chicago Teachers Union, 2017 990. I was meant to be a Chicagoan., In 2004, she became one, landing a job as a history teacher at Englewood High School. Ms. Davis Gates has also spearheaded statewide legislative campaigns to pass the strongest charter school accountability measures in the country, push for the restoration of the bargaining rights of Chicago Public Schools employees, and fully fund public education by ending tax loopholes for the 1%. And I need you to see love as the essential tool to continue to transform this city, this state, this nation, and this world. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. Karen LewisChicago Teachers Union / PresidentKaren Lewis was an American educator and labor leader who served as president of the Chicago Teachers Union, Chicagos division of the American Federation of Teachers, from 2010 to 2014. Revenue: $27,878,897 Chicago Teachers Union 1901 W. Carroll Ave. Chicago, IL 60612. A union member made it for her. In 2020, the city was running an $838 million budget deficit, and Chicagos school system bonds have been rated below investment-grade in recent years. It was more than, I care about what Im teaching you. It was, I care about you personally., Then, in Gatess second year at Englewood High, CPS announced the school would close after that years freshman class graduated. Her maternal grandmother left Arkansas, worked on the West Side of Chicago, and wound her way to South Bend. Gates took the stage. [1] American Federation of Teachers, To Form a More Perfect Union. Chicago Teachers Union, Press Release: STRIKE! Chicago Public Schools Lolly Voss, I heard you for the first time on 820am in Chicago, youre the voice that the children of Chicago NEED. Bernie Sanders, also vying for the presidential nomination, attended a CTU rally before the strike. In fact, it irks her that theres an expectation that she and Lightfoot should get along because theyre both Black women. 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. In 2017, Ms. Davis Gates was elected Chair of United Working Families, an independent political organization by and for working-class people and our movements. [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. Im not the caricature in the letters to the editor. But caricatures are easier to digestand dismissthan the deficits and disinvestments plaguing public schools. 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. Chicago Teachers Union, CTU PAC. 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. Then You Havent Been Paying Attention. chicagotribune.com. Our union couldnt be silent on what was happening to the children in the city, the families in the city.. Salary Breakdown (2019) Gateswho had stepped away from the classroom in 2011 to ramp up her union activities, traveling to Springfield to lobby for the CTUs legislative agenda and serving as the organizations political directorwas elected to fill his post. Your visits to the show are always one of my favorite features but today (Ben Jarovsky 06/27/18), you burned down the house. The CTU is no small thing. The gifted students were invited on a field trip to Philadelphia to see the Liberty Bell and other historic landmarks. Accessed June 02, 2020. Continue to pray for Ukraine. The air crackled with applause. The public face of Chicagos teachers, who stand squarely at the center of the countrys labor movement and culture wars, Gates, 45, is an unflinching critic of Mayor Lori Lightfoot and a fierce opponent of attempts to privatize public education. Stacy Davis Gates Stacy Davis Gates is vice president of the 28,000-member Chicago Teachers Union and a mother of three children in Chicago's public schools. This marked a split among teachers union organization leaders, as AFT President Randi Weingarten endorsed Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), while AFT leader Loretta Johnson and New York City teachers union leader Michael Mulgrew endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. This salary is 12 percent lower than average and 18 percent lower than median salary in Chicago Teachers Union. She attended Saint Marys College, the University of Notre Dame and Concordia University. Sharkey was first elected vice president in 2010, when Karen Lewis was elected CTUs president. Press Inquires: 1973: Two strikes, of 12 and 11 days, yield improved salary, benefits, preparation time, supplies, and class sizes. A 1987 strike lasted a record 19 school days. What does it mean when two transistors are matched? The Foundation supports education-related advocacy efforts aligned with the interests of the CTU. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. I remember we were never able to take a book home because they didnt have a book for every student, says Latoyia Kimbrough, a 2005 graduate who now works as in-house legal counsel for CTU. Karen Lewis, a longtime chemistry teacher, was elected to lead the newly reform-minded CTU in 2010. Chicago Public Schools social studies teacher, labor leader, President of the Chicago Teachers Union since 2014, Paraprofessionals and School-related Personnel. And I think because of that, its easier for people to extract characters and focus on them. Stacy Davis Gates is the President of the Chicago Teachers Union. I was hurt. 1)Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight, 2)When they call you a terrorist, a black lives matter memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele, foreword by Angela Y. Davis, 3)How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates. Stacy can be contacted at [emailprotected]. The school went through three principals her first year. Szalinski, Ben, The new contract continues a moratorium on school closings despite plummeting student enrollment, Illinois Policy, November 22, 2019. Prior to working on staff at CTU, Sharkey was a social studies teacher and a political activist. Chicago Teachers Union, 2019-2020 Dues. Lauren FitzPatrick and Nader Issa, Chicago Teachers Union Inc.: How the clout-heavy labor group spends its money, Chicago Sun-Times, January 17, 2020. The auditorium was named for playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who graduated in 1947. Salary Constraint Annual Dues; Members other than Paraprofessional: $57,869* or more: Between $46,439* and $57,869* 1% of salary. I dont intend to lose, Gates tells me. We know how to teach remotely. Then, two factions of CTU members emerged with plans to oust her and the Caucus of Rank-and-file . Students have lost parents, grandparents, and caregivers. What am I missing? Ive adopted the same two questions. [1], Founded in 1937, CTU is well known for its aggressive political engagement such as strikes, marches, and protests in favor of left-of-center educational priorities and approaches to racial equality. And she did go on the trip. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do. It was a lot of things, Sharkey says about not seeking reelection. In addition, CTU PAC donated $1.2 million to candidates and political organizations. But she would later learn that it wasnt always so level upstream. Chicago Teachers Union Foundation, Grantees List. 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. the Chicago Teachers Union [43], https://www.aft.org/periodical/psrp-reporter/fall-2015/form-more-perfect-union ^. All rights reserved. She attended Saint Marys College, the University of Notre Dame, and Concordia University. It really makes you understand how the city works and who the city works for and who the city doesnt, says Dave Stieber, a social studies and poetry teacher at Kenwood Academy High School and a vocal CTU supporter on social media. All Rights Reserved. 07 Feb 2023 20:32:54 Widely popular with its more than 25,000 members, she was considering a run for mayor when she was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, in 2014. By her second semester of teaching, Gates started looking for ways to make inroads with her students that had little to do with curriculum. And the students need you to clear itlike they need their next breath, they need you to clear it.. That the public sparring and uncertainty send families fleeing for private schools or the suburbs. Gates is revered and resented in equal partsor at least at equal volume. But the school, like the surrounding neighborhood, had been neglected by city leaders for decades. DJN. I was angry. Stacy Gates Davis L in 2017 was employed in Chicago Teachers Union and had annual salary of $114,671 according to public records. I feel privileged to be in this space that they struggled to dream of, against every imaginable odd., Grandmother Laura passed away when Gates was in college. Stacy Davis Gates, the incumbent vice president, led CORE's slate and will take over as president with her running mate Jackson Potter for a three-year term beginning July 1. Dont be compelled to turn around and walk backwards in the time of need. The Chicago Teachers Federation was forced to leave the American Federation of Teachers. Current. Chicago Teachers Union, History. And for those who are not experiencing that in the same way, it is difficult to even grasp why this is happening., Gates wanted to be Perry Mason when she grew up. WTTW, Chicago Teachers Union Bargaining Summary as of 10/29/2019. On the elevator, I asked her if her speech was prepared. Shes also extremely sensitive. The Chicago Teachers Union is an organization of educators dedicated to advancing and promoting quality public education, improving teaching and learning conditions, and protecting members rights. 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. Whos the president of the Chicago Teachers Union? She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters, most prominently Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his rubber-stamp City Council in 2015.Ms. If someone mistreats her, she notices. [1] Law, Justin, The Courts vs. 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. They take away the things we need the most in order to survive. She says there were fights every day on the corner of Western and Division. Holocaust-denier gets nearly 40 percent of vote in 2 Mount Greenwood precincts. [32], In 2017-2019, the CTU PAC donated $133,000 to the campaign of Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson (D), who was also on staff with the Chicago Teachers Union as a registered lobbyist. Moran, Theresa, Behind the Chicago Teachers Strike, Labor Notes, September 10, 2012. Accessed June 02, 2020. Johnson was paid a $103,000 salary by CTU, in addition to his $85,000 salary as a Cook County Commissioner. Accessed June 02, 2020. My pawpaw used to watch it, and I watched it with him, she says. Im disappointed that in 2022 we still believe that Black people are a monolith.. And she's not about to let anyone. Ms. Davis Gates lives on the South Side of Chicago with her husband and three children. [6], The Chicago Teachers Unions annual dues for 2019-2020 are $1,146.28 for each teacher. Her detractors blame her for contributing to a contentious relationship between the CTU and the mayor that resulted in an 11-school-day teachers strike in October 2019the longest in decades. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. It was a tough year, she says. 2020. The Chicago Teachers Union has some 20,000 teacher and clinician members. Accessed June 02, 2020. Chicago Teachers Union, Constitution. Column: Surprised by CTUs Venezuela Visit? CTU also retained Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin (D) as a consultant, paying him $106,000, in addition to his own $85,000 county salary. She sees work stoppages and strikes as the first step and not the last one. Ms. Davis Gates lives on the South Side of Chicago with her husband and three children. In January, shortly after teachers and students returned to their classrooms, students staged a massive walkout to protest a lack of safety mitigations during a record-setting surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Lewis feuded with Emanuel, dubbing him the murder mayor and Mayor 1 Percent. Emanuel, for his part, famously barked Fuck you, Lewis during a private meeting in 2011. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. 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. The Chicago Teachers Union was established to represent the interest of teachers at Chicago, Illinois schools. What are the multiple roles of a successful introductory paragraph? As an elementary bilingual education teacher, she served as a delegate, district supervisor and strike coordinator. A native of South Bend, Indiana, Gates carried her criminal defense lawyer dreams to St. Marys College, where she declared a major in English. It is definitely the case that my decision was because I was confident in the quality of our leadership and our movement broadly. Ms. Davis Gates has also spearheaded statewide legislative campaigns to pass the strongest charter school accountability measures in the country, push for the restoration of the bargaining rights of Chicago Public Schools employees, and fully fund public education by ending tax loopholes for the 1 percent. This effort resulted in both support and opposition. For more than 75 years the Chicago Teachers Union has fought for the schools Chicagos students deserve. Karen was a curious leader, Gates says. Accessed June 01, 2020. Previously, Gates served as the Political and Legislative Director for CTU. And the classroom teacher is tasked with making sense of it. 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