“Chicago Teacher Union (CTU) share of all property taxes has grown to 56%”
Let’s be clear, the CTU poses a threat to other labor unions by its demands and seems determined to have the city and state write them a Blank Check regardless of its impact on other city workers or hard pressed property taxpayers.
Ponder the following:
•The City’s $1 billion budget crisis is in part due to its massive school subsidies that last year exceeded $900 million. Despite the city’s own $1 billion deficit the CTU presses its former lobbyist-made Mayor to give schools more. City employees, not CTU member jobs, will go unfilled.
•CTU saw member salaries grew between 24-50% and head count climb 18.7% in last contract while other city public employees saw their much smaller salary increases delayed and their numbers shrink.
