“retaliating against Chicago Teacher union members who filed a lawsuit demanding access to annual financial audits”
“When we first wrote to your clients on October 2, we extended the opportunity to avoid litigation by publishing the audits to members, consistent with CTU’s Constitution. One week later, you requested the names of our clients, ostensibly to confirm their membership. As a professional courtesy, we complied.”
“The retaliation from CTU against our clients was swift. That evening—during a delegate meeting where one of our clients was introduced as a candidate for the Pension Board—CTU’s President attacked our clients by name, associating them with ‘Project 2025’ and baselessly labeling them as ‘extreme right wing.’”
“Most concerningly, it is our understanding from a whistleblower that, on Friday, one of our client’s in-school union reps received an ‘apoplectic’ call from someone at CTU insisting that they try to stop our client from pursuing this lawsuit. If true, this represents a drastic escalation of CTU’s intimidation tactics.”
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CTU spends just 17 cents on representing teachers.
They spend the rest on administration, politics and other union leadership priorities.
