chicago.suntimes.com. Bellware, Kim, Chicago teachers say they will go on strike. I think thats an achievement, that we are all free to have differing thought processes on anything, and that women have voice in a city as dynamic as Chicago. 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. Occupation: Vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union. Column: Surprised by CTUs Venezuela Visit? It is also terrible there is an assumption that women get along even if they disagree. (In response to a request for an interview, Lightfoot sent an email that said, in part: I am willing to work with all stakeholders who come to the table in good faith and who always put our kids and their families first.), Folks are concentrating on red lipstick, Gates continues, referencing her signature look, or the back-and-forth. These arent just personality conflicts, Sharkey tells me. 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. [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 is revered and resented in equal partsor at least at equal volume. 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 02, 2020. 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. And the students need you to clear itlike they need their next breath, they need you to clear it.. I can take off my earrings and get the Vaseline.), Still, the nationally televised conflict early in Lightfoots termwith Democratic heavy hitters siding with the teachersset the stage for the successive years of highly tempestuous dealings. 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. Chicago Teachers Union, On the CTU Sale of Fewkes Tower, April 30, 2015. She attended Saint Marys College, the University of Notre Dame, and Concordia University. [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. Accessed June 02, 2020. Youd see these kids going to school-closing hearings, singing, performing, saying, Please dont close our school. 111 W. Grand Avenue Chicago, IL 60654 Map and directions Speaker Stacy Davis Gates Stacy Davis Gates is the President of the Chicago Teachers Union and the Executive Vice President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers. Stacy Gates Davis L in 2016 was employed in Chicago Teachers Union and had annual salary of $112,422 according to public records. And I need you to see love as the essential tool to continue to transform this city, this state, this nation, and this world. The CTUF has lost $2 million per year since the sale of the Fewkes Tower. Stieber began his career at TEAM Englewood Academy, a public high school that, along with an Urban Prep Academies charter school, took over the building that once housed Englewood High School. And we have been searching for that matter for centuries. This is not like a couple of angry Black women.. That was the moment I was radicalized.. This is a logo for Chicago Teachers Union. Min. 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. We dont walk backwards and pretend that yesterday was better than what we can imagine tomorrow to be. By the time teachers and students returned to classrooms in November 2019four months before COVID-19 would force schools to close againthe union had successfully bargained for a social worker, nurse, and librarian in every school, $35 million in spending to reduce overcrowded classrooms, a 16 percent pay raise for teachers over five years, and a 40 percent pay raise for teaching assistants, clerks, and other historically underpaid support staff members. Accessed June 01, 2020. Even as a sixth grader, it bugged herjust as the injustice and tragedy she sees now motivate her. [8], In 1916, the Chicago Teacher Federation founded the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and became the Local 1. ), My counsel to her is One thing at a time, Sharkey says. The Executive Board of the Chicago Teachers Union is comprised of the elected officers, committee chairs, appointed members and union staff. As an elementary bilingual education teacher, she served as a delegate, district supervisor and strike coordinator. DJN. Her maternal grandmother left Arkansas, worked on the West Side of Chicago, and wound her way to South Bend. So we have to be astute historians and know that our voice is necessary to this moment. 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. The school went through three principals her first year. Wagner Acerbi Horta and Brendan Rigney, Beyond the picket line: Union clout, tallied, Center for Illinois Politics, October 27, 2019. Chicago Teachers Union Foundation, Our History. In addition to leading the political and legislative agendas for the CTU, Stacy is a regular contributor to radio shows and print publications. 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. CTU Vice President Stacy Davis Gates speaks about parents keeping their CPS students remote until Lightfoot's CPS team provides testing and safety guarantees as teachers, parents and members of the Chicago Teachers Union outside Park Manor Elementary on Jan. 3, 2022. What We Know and What We Need to Learn, Michigan State University. If the labor movements instinct has been to reduce demands in order to sound reasonable, the new CTU took the opposite approach, McAlevey wrote. 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. It makes you angry. Continue to pray for Ukraine. 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. Accessed June 02, 2020. I was hurt. Davis-Gates will be moving up from her position as vice president when . Stacys relationship with the mayor and CPS CEO is toxic, and this will make it very difficult for her to deliver for us.. West Ridge YMCA receives $3.75 million in U.S. funds for renovations, possible reopening U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky helped secure funds for the High Ridge YMCA, which is now being used to house migrants, two years after the facility was closed to the public. And she doesnt like it., He calls her sensitivity her superpower, even as it invites blowback. Students would try you a lot, Kimbrough says. 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. Issa, Nader, Chicago Teachers Union sues Betsy DeVos, CPS over coronavirus special education requirements, Chicago Sun-Times, May 20, 2020. In 2020, the city was running an $838 million budget deficit, and Chicago's school system bonds have been rated below investment-grade in recent years. Ms. Davis Gates is currently on leave from the classroom, where she taught high school social studies for over a decade at Englewood, Clemente, and Mason Community Links High Schools. It does something to you., As Englewood High School was closing, the CTU was undergoing a radical transformation, led largely by Potter, away from a pay-and-benefits focus and toward a citizen activist approach. Sharkey was first elected vice president in 2010, when Karen Lewis was elected CTUs president. It seems pretty dangerous. It was the final day of Black History Month and Stacy Davis Gates needed to be in three places at once. The rhetoric on education reform and pension reform in Chicagois upside down. After the Chicago Teachers Union achieved the power to collectively bargain, CTU teachers went on strike nine times in twenty years, with four strikes in the first seven years. One-on-One with CTU President-Elect Stacy Davis Gates. She was actually in sixth grade, Gates later clarifies. CPS has had four CEOs in the past seven years, including twoBarbara Byrd-Bennett and Forrest Claypoolwho left in disgrace. The impact of historical, generational disinvestment on the South Side and West Side of the city is difficult for people who are experiencing it to challenge, because its every day and it covers all facets of their existence. 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 its members through collective bargaining for compensation, benefits, employee work conditions, and school governance. It made me feel powerless. Chicago Teachers Union, CTU PAC. Four years later, after undergoing brain surgery, she retired, and Sharkey, her vice president, took over. 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. Accessed June 02, 2020. [36], CTU has been an active opponent of education reforms or changes that could reduce the unions power within the education system. Guidestar, Chicago Teachers Union, 2017 990. [38], The Chicago Teachers Union is led by CTU President Jesse Sharkey, who was appointed to the position in 2018. Chicago Teachers Union, Press Release: STRIKE! I would like to thank you for taking a stand,and expressing your thoughts and how to respond to the republican party. [1] Grossman, Ron, As Chicago teachers vote to authorize a strike, a look back at the citys labor history, Chicago Tribune, September 27, 2019. As the Political and Legislative Director, Stacy works to ensure that public educators, students, and their families have a strong voice in the policy making process. When you hear my fire, you hear Hazel. 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. More change is coming in May, when the CTU selects its next leader. But they had an air of choreography, she says, of an outcome predetermined before anyone even spoke. Im not going on your field trip because its not fair.. That the work stoppages rob students of crucial instructional time. 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. Theyre embedded in our American history. Gates understands the frustration, particularly around strikes. The Chicago Teachers Unions heir apparent sees herself as a righteous champion of not just educators but of students. The 2019 teachers strike, which took place five months into Lightfoots term, captured national attention for both its length and the groundbreaking issues it brought to the bargaining table. And also really scared. Accessed June 02, 2020. When the . [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. [1] American Federation of Teachers, To Form a More Perfect Union. CTU is a local union of the American Federation of Teachers, the countrys second-largest national teachers union. $497.86: Less than $46,439* $721.68: Paraprofessionals and School-related Personnel: N/A: Press Inquires: April 13, 2020, 10:37 pm. Szalinski, Ben, The new contract continues a moratorium on school closings despite plummeting student enrollment, Illinois Policy, November 22, 2019. 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. Your visits to the show are always one of my favorite features but today (Ben Jarovsky 06/27/18), you burned down the house. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. Every problem in societyhunger, domestic violence, povertyit walks into your doors, doesnt it? Sanders said to the crowd gathered inside CTU headquarters. God Bless. In response, CTU blamed a Koch-funded law project, called the lawsuit anti-worker, and argued that, by only allowing members to revoke their dues authorizations in August, they were operating within the letter of the law. [22], In addition to its status as Local 1 of the American Federation of Teachers, CTU is also a member of other left-wing labor groups, including 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), and the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT). So we got next. It made me feel powerless. You need to run for public office. 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. Political and legislative agendas for the CTU selects its next leader Fewkes Tower Notre Dame and. 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