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Press Release: CPS Instructs Principals to Document Legal Union Activity As Teachers Fight For a Fair Contract
BY STEPHANIE GADLIN, MEDIA RELATIONS DIRECTOR | 08/20/2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 20, 2012
CHICAGO— A confidential email recently obtained by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) encourages principals to closely monitor school employees for union activity. All Union activity is protected under federal and state law. The communication was written and distributed by Chicago Public School officials as a precursor to a strike.
This communication is equally troubling because today, as CTU members conducted informational picketing outside various schools, some principals threatened to discipline employees as instructed by