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Labor board sides with teachers against CPS
By: Lorraine Forte / October 20, 2011
The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board voted unanimously to recommend that a temporary injunction be issued to stop Chicago Public Schools from expanding the number of schools with a longer school day, but it will not try to get the schools that have already implemented the extended schedule to revert back to a standard schedule.
The board will have to ask Attorney General Lisa Madigan for approval to pursue the case. Should Madigan agree, the board can then ask a judge to issue an injunction against CPS, whose lawyers argued that taking away the longer day at the 13 schools that have already adopted it would harm those schools’ 4,000 students.
The specifics of the injunction—whether it would halt the pilot’s expansion, end the program at the pilot schools, or some other scenario—are not yet clear.
CTU said that it offered to settle the dispute with CPS by halting the program, but allowing the current 13 pilot schools to continue the longer day.
More to come.
Meanwhile, read our most recent story on the union’s longer-day dispute with the district, which sparked the union’s charge of unfair labor practices.
Bully Rahm Loses Again
Today, the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board (IELRB) struck a blow against union-busting and employee coercion and intimidation by unanimously voting to seek injunctive relief against the Chicago Board of Education’s (CBE) illegal push for a longer school day. Members of the labor board voted 5-0 to seek an injunction blocking the program from taking effect this year. If granted, nine schools that have currently extended their school day will revert to their previous schedule as outlined in the CTU contract and no other elementary school can amend its school hours.
Click to download the one-hour audio recording of the Oct. 20, 2011 hearing held by the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board. The recording begins with oral arguments presented by Chicago Teachers Union’s attorney Robert Bloch.
http://www.ctunet.com/media/audio/IELRBOct20.WMA
bully rahm
this is the same guy who went to (daddy) aka obama and got himself residency! he will get his way i guarantee it...and besides next year he will have a field day with his new powers (aka 75 stike vote and no negotiations on extended day etc)....lets face it cps teacher are gonna get the shaft...this is our last stand !!!
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