Does Cross have the votes?
Members of the Park Ridge Education Association met yesterday with State Senator Dan Kotowski who represents Park Ridge and the north west suburbs.
Kotowski is supportive of teachers and seemed surprised that our members did not agree with what our union leadership had done in negotiations around SB7.
That the leadership of the three teacher unions, the IEA, the IFT, and the CTU would agree to surrender basic contractual bargaining rights like seniority protection and strike notification without the consent or knowledge of the rank and file membership probably surprised him as much as it angered us.
But we did not linger long on that topic.
Our immediate concern was what the General Assembly might do to active and retired teacher pensions before
