The new CTU contract, sick days and pensions. – Fred Klonsky

The new CTU contract, sick days and pensions. – Fred Klonsky

THE NEW CTU CONTRACT, SICK DAYS AND PENSIONS

I don’t buy the story that Mayor Lightfoot is Rahm 2.0, plus I supported the teachers and the CTU’s strike demands.

One of the changes to the contract is the ability to accumulate sick days. Teachers can now count the days as pensionable.

Under their new contract, Chicago Teachers Union members would be able to accrue more than six times as many unused sick days as before.

The tentative agreement reached Thursday between the city, Chicago Public Schools and the CTU allows union members to bank 244 sick days, up from 40.

That’s more than enough days to cover an entire school year — an increase that could allow a longtime employee to retire a year early and still receive their full pension.

The 40-day cap was the result of 2012 contract negotiations following scrutiny of a policy that allowed employees to cash CONTINUE READING: The new CTU contract, sick days and pensions. – Fred Klonsky