Cambridge Lakes Charter School
UNION FILES CHARGE AGAINST SCHOOL, March 27, 2008, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Illinois' largest teacher's union has filed a charge against the Cambridge Lakes Charter School for a Feb. 25 meeting at which the union claims the school violated teachers' right to organize.
The charge alleges charter-school officials "interfered with, restrained and coerced its employees in the exercise of rights guaranteed under the (Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act)" at the Feb. 25 staff-wide meeting.
The Illinois Education Association is seeking an injunction to stop Northern Kane Educational Corp., the firm that runs the charter school, from continuing the alleged anti-union activities.
Northern Kane Executive Director Larry Fuhrer would neither confirm nor deny the allegations on Wednesday.
"I have no comment on that," he said.
At the Feb. 25 meeting, teachers were asked if they had been involved in "recently publicized acts