Catalyst Notebook :: For the Record: Chicago Teachers Union strike votes

Catalyst Notebook :: For the Record: Chicago Teachers Union strike votes

For the Record: Chicago Teachers Union strike votesPosted By Sarah Karp On Monday, July 11, 2011
In Teachers In a talk at the Aspen Institute in which Stand for Children’s national director Jonah Edelman laid out his organization’s crafty strategy for winning the approval of Senate Bill 7, he says that the bill will effectively kill any chance of the teachers union ever striking again. The bill, which also makes it more difficult to get tenure and streamlines for process for firing bad teachers, requires that 75 percent of the Chicago Teacher Union’s eligible voting membership authorize a strike.

Edelman describes CTU’s president Karen Lewis as a “militant and a diehard” who above all would not agree to forgo strike rights. But he called Lewis’ decision to allow the