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ATTENTION MEMBERS
The Chicago Teachers Union switchboard will be open beginning at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, November 20, for any inquiries regarding the referendum on constitutional amendments.
312-329-9100
VOTE YES ON NOVEMBER 20
If you will not be at your home school on Friday you can vote with a supplemental ballot. Come prepared with your union card and ID or a check stub and ID.
On Friday, November 20, members of the Chicago Teachers Union will have the opportunity to vote in the schools on three important governance changes to the Union's constistution.
If enacted, these changes will save the Union thousands of dollars in the future and also will streamline our governing process. The three referendum items have been endorsed by the Union's Executive Board -- all of whom are elected at-large by the entire membership -- after careful review of proposals put forward by the CTU's attorneys.
Below you will find a link to a fact sheet that gives the various reasons behind the proposed amendments and the cost-savings that are anticipated. I urge you to read the attached information closely and to give careful consideration to what is proposed.
Many rumors have been circulated over the last several months about circumstances within our Union, and persons with their personal agendas have attacked my efforts to bring reform and fiscal responsibility to our organization. It has not been an easy task to move the Union from a position of deficit to one of financail soundness. Nor has it been easy to hold individuals -- including even some who originally were elected as part of my own slate -- accountable for their actions. But the future of the Chicago Teachers Union required the steps that have been taken, and so far those steps have proven to be successful.
The referendum items being proposed will firm-up the reform of the Chicago Teachers Union and will increase our overall fiscal stability. They will move our organization forward in a way that makes our governing structure more consistent with what is found in other major labor organizations. I urge you to support these referendum items by voting YES on all three this Friday, November 20.
Click here for additional referendum information.
President Stewart calls for moratorium on Renaissance 2010
On October 28, CTU President Marilyn Stewart asked the Chicago Board of Education to pass a moratorium on Renaissance 2010. In a recent letter to members of the Board, she reiterated her position and demanded that such a vote take place at the Board's November meeting. Click here to read the text of President Stewart's letter.
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Marilyn Stewart,
Chicago Teachers Union President
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