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Published reports that Brandon Johnson had amassed thousands in unpaid city water bills and parking tickets has intensified concerns that the former public school teacher lacks the fiscal management skills to oversee the budget of the nation’s third largest city.
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Chicago Public Schools said the turnaround program resulted in better schools for all students. Chicago Teachers Union said it resulted in discriminatory layoffs of Black teachers
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For second time in less than a week, Springfield appeals court says COVID vaccine-or-test mandates are "workplace safety rules," not illegal public health orders that violate workers' rights
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Sangamon County Circuit Judge Raylene Grischow says Chicago Public Schools lacks authority under state law to enforce its so-called vax-or-test mandate, and also can't rely on its contract with the Chicago Teachers Union to sidestep the law
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While billed as a "workers rights amendment," Amendment 1 - which will be on the ballot this fall in Illinois - would give unions the power to use collective bargaining to override a wide range of state laws that apply to everyone else, says the Illinois Policy Institute
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In the motion, attorney Tom DeVore, on behalf of the CPS educators, asserts Chicago Public Schools' vaccine mandate for workers violates their rights to due process under Illinois law
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A Cook County judge ruled public health agencies need to be able to prove their quarantine orders are actually needed and backed by evidence. This will be used in other court fights, says Mark Glennon, of Wirepoints
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Voters can deal a blow to the legacy of former House Speaker Michael Madigan, who is indicted on public corruption and racketeering charges, if they defeat Amendment 1 at the polls this fall, says the Illinois Policy Institute
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The attorney who won a restraining order against Gov. JB Pritzker's school COVID rules is now asking the same judge to issue an order vs Chicago Public Schools for 'unlawfully' still requiring student masks
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Gov. JB Pritzker and Attorney General Kwame Raoul each promised to ask the Illinois Supreme Court to undo lower court rulings declaring Pritzker's COVID school rules to be non-existent, null, void
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Attorney Tom DeVore has asked a Springfield judge to require CPS and its CEO Pedro Martinez to explain why they shouldn't held in contempt for essentially ignoring the judge's order blocking enforcement of school mask mandates
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The lawsuit vs the Chicago Teachers Union called the union's 'remote work action' an illegal strike that harmed children and families in Chicago
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The parents of Chicago Public Schools students assert the union has violated state labor law and their contract by refusing to come to schools, even though CPS has declared school can be carried out safely amid the COVID surge
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Two Chicago teachers and a Moline custodian claimed their unions ignored the Supreme Court and the Constitution by limiting their ability to leave the union only to one "escape period" each year.
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The Chicago Teachers Union and the Chicago Board of Education are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to refuse a request for a hearing by two teachers, who claim the union violated their free speech by deducting dues to subsidize political positions without their consent.
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Union said Black workers were disproportionately laid off in 2011, while CPS blamed declining enrollment.
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Attorneys general from Texas, Arizona, Missouri and 13 other states filed a brief in support of the class action lawsuit on behalf of 24,000 Chicago Public Schools teachers and other workers vs the Chicago Teachers Union.
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Illinois voters will decide in 2022 whether to enshrine 'unimagined' union power as a right, similar to that granted public worker pensions, in the state constitution, perhaps forever, says Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon
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A judge has refused to end a teachers union lawsuit, which accuses the Chicago Public Schools board of laying off Black teachers because of their race, saying only a jury can properly address the conflicting evidence.
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A federal appeals panel has said an ex-union member has no claim for dues voluntarily paid while a member, because the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus ruling only pertained to fees forcibly paid to unions by nonunion workers for represention.
