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Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 10:36 PM
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$870.36 2007-2008
$832.00 2006-2007
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$38.36 Dues increase in one year
4.6% Dues increase per year.
Let see how much was that raise again?
So the way I figure it the union increased their take out of our checks by more than what they negotiated our raises.
Please check my math.
thanks
$832.00 2006-2007
----------------------------
$38.36 Dues increase in one year
4.6% Dues increase per year.
Let see how much was that raise again?
So the way I figure it the union increased their take out of our checks by more than what they negotiated our raises.
Please check my math.
thanks
Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 10:43 PM
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From: Filas, Barbara J.
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:12 AM
To: 000 CTU Office (Local 1 only)
Subject: REVISED CTU DUES-FEES 2007-08
The BOE payroll was to implement the last dues/fees increase, per CTU's letter of 12/28/07.
It should have started on 1/25/08, $34.03 for teachers and on 1/18/08, $20.42 for ESP.
Since this was NOT implemented---attached is the corrected revision for the dues/fees.
This has been worked out between CTU and BOE.
The full INFORMATION SHEET will also be corrected for distribution at the next house of
delegates meeting.
CORRECTED REVISION CTU DUES/FEES FOR 2007-2008
TEACHERS YEARLY $870.36
$31.87 @ 6 (PAY DATES 9/21/07 TO 11/30/07) 191.22
$33.56 @ 8 (PAY DATES 12/14/07 TO 3/21/08 268.48
$34.22 @ 12 (PAY DATES 4/4/08 TO 9/5/08) 410.66
ESP YEARLY $522.22
$19.12 @ 6 (PAY DATES 9/14/07 TO 11/21/07) 114.72
$20.14 @ 8 (PAY DATES 12/7/07 TO 3/14/08) 161.12
$20.53 @ 12 (PAY DATES 3/28/08 TO 8/29/08) 246.38
Each individual rate equals the yearly dollar total and 26 pay periods.
3/13/08
oteg-743-bjf
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:12 AM
To: 000 CTU Office (Local 1 only)
Subject: REVISED CTU DUES-FEES 2007-08
The BOE payroll was to implement the last dues/fees increase, per CTU's letter of 12/28/07.
It should have started on 1/25/08, $34.03 for teachers and on 1/18/08, $20.42 for ESP.
Since this was NOT implemented---attached is the corrected revision for the dues/fees.
This has been worked out between CTU and BOE.
The full INFORMATION SHEET will also be corrected for distribution at the next house of
delegates meeting.
CORRECTED REVISION CTU DUES/FEES FOR 2007-2008
TEACHERS YEARLY $870.36
$31.87 @ 6 (PAY DATES 9/21/07 TO 11/30/07) 191.22
$33.56 @ 8 (PAY DATES 12/14/07 TO 3/21/08 268.48
$34.22 @ 12 (PAY DATES 4/4/08 TO 9/5/08) 410.66
ESP YEARLY $522.22
$19.12 @ 6 (PAY DATES 9/14/07 TO 11/21/07) 114.72
$20.14 @ 8 (PAY DATES 12/7/07 TO 3/14/08) 161.12
$20.53 @ 12 (PAY DATES 3/28/08 TO 8/29/08) 246.38
Each individual rate equals the yearly dollar total and 26 pay periods.
3/13/08
oteg-743-bjf
Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 10:48 PM
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the ctu group is making sure they get their money!
what about the members!
what about our jobs!
what about my credit protect you promised one year is almost vear did you forget Marilyn?
You promised to get us seven years of protect.
we gave you a contract.
you got our money.
we got ...........................
you fill in the blank, this is a family blog spot.
what about the members!
what about our jobs!
what about my credit protect you promised one year is almost vear did you forget Marilyn?
You promised to get us seven years of protect.
we gave you a contract.
you got our money.
we got ...........................
you fill in the blank, this is a family blog spot.
Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 5:24 AM
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As the weather gets warmer, most teachers and other school workers will be reminded that the majority of Chicago's public schools do not have air conditioning (or, for those with a real sense of drollery, air conditioners that work without drowning out the instructional delivery systems -- teachers and teacher assistants in most cases). Meanwhile, the CTU officers and staff not only work in an air conditioned office in the Merchandise Mart (where their parking is paid for by the CTU, as opposed to yours if you have a problem), but drive in air conditioned vehicles (also paid for by the union). Is anyone surprised that they don't spend a lot of their time "in the field" with the field peasants? You've got to be kidding. They didn't lie, cheat, and steal their way to the "top" to be forced to face the realities of life at the bottom on a regular basis. Marilyn Stewart spends just enough time in the schools to pose for those staged photographs that are then recycled into the pages of the Chicago Union Teacher and posted to that useless web site.
Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 5:39 AM
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Probably the bigger news stories on this thread, friends and neighbors, are the ones about the TRS (and Tony Rezko) and the Rahm Emmanuel press release announcing that my Congressman has proposed wasting $300 million next year on a "choice" plan that only President Bush could love. Can't the nonsense about the Chicago Teachers Union be segregated to the thread called CTU nonsense as this other stuff is sneaking up on everyone?
Viz.,
One, the CTPF (Chicago's pension fund) is doing very well, even in the face of the tumult in the markets (see yesterday's Friday panic over Bear Sterns and think about what's going to happen when the markets open Monday). Yet unless people are attentive, the very very very corrupt Illinois teachers' pension fund (CRT, for Teachers Retirement System) will be lumped in with the CTPF (Chicago Teachers Pension Fund) in the same lump and we'll have a "demand" for "reform" (in the form of 401-Ks just as the value of the 401-K plans is going south with Bear Sterns?) drummed up by the media.
Two, Rahm Emmanuel's proposal (made on February 21, according to his office's press release) that $300 million go to charter schools is consistent with his other nonsense on behalf of the "Daley Miracle" but should not have gone unnoticed here in Chicago (or here in the 5th Illinois Congressional District, where some of us live). People were picketing Emmanuel's local office (irving Park Road) earlier because of his avid support for Mayor Daley's militarism (and his inability to understand that the November 2006 Congressional Election was a vote against the Iraq War -- not a vote to make Rahm the resident organizational genius for the Democratic Leadership Conference and The Washington Post Corporation).
Long term, the stuff that is here in this thread is going to have a greater impact on Chicago's public schools than the stuff that was not here (CTU finances), so let's hope some people brush up on the pension fund distinctions, on the one hand, and the Republicratic blather of guys like Rahm Emmanuel (and his good buddy Richie Daley) on the other.
Viz.,
One, the CTPF (Chicago's pension fund) is doing very well, even in the face of the tumult in the markets (see yesterday's Friday panic over Bear Sterns and think about what's going to happen when the markets open Monday). Yet unless people are attentive, the very very very corrupt Illinois teachers' pension fund (CRT, for Teachers Retirement System) will be lumped in with the CTPF (Chicago Teachers Pension Fund) in the same lump and we'll have a "demand" for "reform" (in the form of 401-Ks just as the value of the 401-K plans is going south with Bear Sterns?) drummed up by the media.
Two, Rahm Emmanuel's proposal (made on February 21, according to his office's press release) that $300 million go to charter schools is consistent with his other nonsense on behalf of the "Daley Miracle" but should not have gone unnoticed here in Chicago (or here in the 5th Illinois Congressional District, where some of us live). People were picketing Emmanuel's local office (irving Park Road) earlier because of his avid support for Mayor Daley's militarism (and his inability to understand that the November 2006 Congressional Election was a vote against the Iraq War -- not a vote to make Rahm the resident organizational genius for the Democratic Leadership Conference and The Washington Post Corporation).
Long term, the stuff that is here in this thread is going to have a greater impact on Chicago's public schools than the stuff that was not here (CTU finances), so let's hope some people brush up on the pension fund distinctions, on the one hand, and the Republicratic blather of guys like Rahm Emmanuel (and his good buddy Richie Daley) on the other.
