Guidestar, Chicago Teachers Union, 2017 990. Under her leadership, the unions political action fund and member activity in the political and legislative arena has grown significantly. The Chicago Teachers Union has elected a new president: Stacy Davis Gates. And now, after CTU president Jesse Sharkey announced in February that he wouldnt seek reelection, she is primed to take over the top slot at what is arguably the nations most powerful teachers union. Whos the president of the Chicago Teachers Union? Learn more about how easy it is to take the next step and join the IFT! Change is a constant for Chicago schools. (When asked about it on the Crains Chicago Business podcast A.D. Q&A in January, Gates said that the notion of her running was something she first heard from Lightfoots lips and was not a priority for her. You should be ashamed. Konkol, Mark, CTU Boss Talks Like Working Man, Lives Like Wealthiest 1 Percent, Patch Chicago, August 27, 2019. Chicago Teachers Union, Officers. Our courage, our organizing, our value are necessary in this moment.. Christel Williams is a 25-year veteran of Chicago Public Schools, serving as a PSRP delegate, district supervisor, functional vice president and American Federation of Teachers-Illinois Federation of Teachers (AFT-IFT) convention delegate in that time. Chicago Teachers Union, Constitution. We may not like it, but it just makes sense right now. The fact that you have to fight for these things, it feels like punishment. But she has no choice, she says. Claiming dibs on revenue sources that dont exist and saying the rich will pay for it? This is not like a couple of angry Black women.. Or, Omicrons peaking. The 2019 teachers strike, which took place five months into Lightfoots term, captured national attention for both its length and the groundbreaking issues it brought to the bargaining table. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. She is also the Executive Vice President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and an Executive Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers. [7], The Chicago Teacher Federation (CTF), a predecessor to the Chicago Teachers Union, was formed in 1897, largely to improve the status and compensation of teachers. Ms. Davis Gates is currently on leave from the classroom, where she taught high school social studies for over a decade at Englewood, Clemente, and Mason Community Links High Schools. Chicago Teachers Union, 2019-2020 Dues. That figure is composed of merit raises and other specific pools of raises that do not apply to all union members across the board. Accessed June 02, 2020. However, in 2012, after 9 months of contentious negotiations between CTU, the Chicago School Board, and then-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), who had been actively closing or privatizing failing schools, the CTU went on strike again. Stacy Davis Gates EDITOR'S NOTE, OCTOBER 30, 2019: The profile below was first published on August 2, 2019. In 2017, Ms. Davis Gates was elected Chair of United Working Families, an independent political organization by and for working-class people and our movements. $497.86: Less than $46,439* $721.68: Paraprofessionals and School-related Personnel: N/A: Neither side backs down from the fight. Stacy Davis Gates is the President of the Chicago Teachers Union. But, she argues, historical wrongs arent quickly righted. It made me feel powerless. That was the moment I was radicalized.. Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Teachers Federation records 1864-1968. After that we looked out for them, she says. Prior to her current role at the CTU, she served as the unions Political and Legislative Director. Accessed June 02, 2020. Why are we negotiating safety? Gates asks. Chicago Teachers Union 1901 W. Carroll Ave. Chicago, IL 60612. [12] The CTU won recognition as the collective bargaining agent for its members in 1966, and reached its first collective bargaining contract in 1967. Occupation: Vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union. Accessed June 02, 2020. Her detractors blame her for contributing to a contentious relationship between the CTU and the mayor that resulted in an 11-school-day teachers strike in October 2019the longest in decades. While at the CTU, Ms. Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. Weve got this amazing band program. And theyd close it anyway. I can think of no one Id personally like to run the union more, but thats a decision our members get to make., Sharkey, 52, has been floated as a possible mayoral candidate. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. Lewis feuded with Emanuel, dubbing him the murder mayor and Mayor 1 Percent. Emanuel, for his part, famously barked Fuck you, Lewis during a private meeting in 2011. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. West Ridge YMCA receives $3.75 million in U.S. funds for renovations, possible reopening U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky helped secure funds for the High Ridge YMCA, which is now being used to house migrants, two years after the facility was closed to the public. While at the CTU, Ms. Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. The results were mixed for CTU. Your visits to the show are always one of my favorite features but today (Ben Jarovsky 06/27/18), you burned down the house. By the time teachers and students returned to classrooms in November 2019four months before COVID-19 would force schools to close againthe union had successfully bargained for a social worker, nurse, and librarian in every school, $35 million in spending to reduce overcrowded classrooms, a 16 percent pay raise for teachers over five years, and a 40 percent pay raise for teaching assistants, clerks, and other historically underpaid support staff members. STACY DAVIS GATES, DELEGATE. Stacy Davis Gates, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, speaks in Chicago, Dec. 9, 2018. Net assets declined to less than $1 million. It is definitely the case that my decision was because I was confident in the quality of our leadership and our movement broadly. And someone with those qualitiessensitive, brilliant, cares a lot about justiceif youre a Black woman with those qualities, you get a lot of people who take umbrage., He recalls a story that Gates told him years ago about being the only Black girl in the gifted program at her South Bend elementary school. A union member made it for her. Email Monica Trevino at Mtrevino@ift-aft.org. The CTU is Local 1 of the American Federation of Teachers, an Illinois Federation of Teachers affiliate and affiliated with the Chicago Federation of Labor and the AFL-CIO. And she's not about to let anyone. [4] The CTU Constitution also identifies solidarity with other labor unions (a relationship of mutual assistance and cooperation with organized labor) as a core purpose of the CTU. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. It was a tough year, she says. It felt like the humanity was removed from us. So I want to say this: We are fighters at this union. Stacy Davis Gates Won't Back Down The Chicago Teachers Union's heir apparent sees herself as a righteous champion of not just educators but of students. Action Network, CTU PAC. Accessed June 02, 2020. Garcia lost. But Sharkey and Davis Gates also have come under fire from a group of educators calling themselves the Members First Caucus, who planned to challenge them in the May election. Chicago Tribune, August 20, 2019. Gateswho had stepped away from the classroom in 2011 to ramp up her union activities, traveling to Springfield to lobby for the CTUs legislative agenda and serving as the organizations political directorwas elected to fill his post. As a 19-year-old, she says, it wasnt clear to me that injustices are already embedded into our school communitieslarger societal deficits, disinvestments., After college, Gates moved to Chicago, a city that had beckoned and shaped her elders. Stacy Davis Gatesis the Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union and the Executive Vice President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers. The CTU represents more than 25,000 teachers, paraprofessional and school-related personnel, and school clinicians working in the Chicago Public Schools and, by extension, the students and families they serve. My granny was a teenage mothera teenage single mother with an alcoholic father who was a sharecropper. A few minutes past 6 p.m., with the board meeting streaming on her iPhone, Gates walked through the refurbished warehouse in West Town that serves as the unions headquarters and into the Jacqueline B. Vaughn Hall, named for first African American woman to lead the CTU. In the absence of a union endorsement, two senior CTU leaders, Jesse Sharkey and Stacy Davis Gates, endorsed the Vermont Senator. The couples son is named after his father. Dont be discouraged in the moment of great need. chicago.suntimes.com. Before Sharkeys announcement, Gatess name also had been brought up as a possible contender. Christel, her husband and her three daughters are all graduates of CPS, with her middle daughter starring for a Marshall Lady Commandos state championship team under legendary coach Dorothy Gaters. But she would later learn that it wasnt always so level upstream. American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. Lauren FitzPatrick and Nader Issa, Chicago Teachers Union Inc.: How the clout-heavy labor group spends its money, Chicago Sun-Times, January 17, 2020. In 2017, Ms. Davis Gates was elected Chair of United Working Families, an independent political organization by and for working-class people and our movements. Stacy Davis GatesPresident, Chicago Teachers Union Stacy Davis Gates is the President of the Chicago Teachers Union and the Executive Vice President of the I. She didnt have any notes with her onstage. [24], The Foundation was founded in 1969 when it received the Fewkes Tower a 29-story high rise building in Chicago from the Chicago Teachers Union, which had built the tower in 1963 to provide affordable housing to retired teachers. Gregory, Ted, Why CPS/teacher relations have been so contentious for so long, Crains Chicago Business, October 24, 2019. As a teacher and union delegate at Englewood High School, Jackson fought school closings when former CEO Arne Duncan called the school a culture of failure and started a phase-out in 2005. Its a high bar. Please settle up and move on., Says Gates: Im disappointed that in 2022 we still believe that Black people are a monolith and one-dimensional. This whole country said at one point, postGeorge Floyd, that Black lives matter, she called out from the Jacqueline B. Vaughn Hall stage on that final night of February. Evaluation of New District Teachers Without Tenure. Accessed June 02, 2020. While the CTU mission is, ostensibly, to improve public education, most of the identified purposes of the CTU are related to improving compensation and protecting the job security of union members, as well as growing the union. The ongoing pandemic has disproportionately affected Chicagos Black and brown residents, who make up close to 90 percent of CPS families. I would like to thank you for taking a stand,and expressing your thoughts and how to respond to the republican party. Chicago is a city that can leave behind, even devour, its young. The hallways of Englewood High were lined with photos of notable alums: Harold Ickes, secretary of the interior under Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman; Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African American to be selected as an astronaut; Harold Bradley Sr., who was one of just 13 African American players in the National Football League before World War II; Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Gwendolyn Brooks. The impact of historical, generational disinvestment on the South Side and West Side of the city is difficult for people who are experiencing it to challenge, because its every day and it covers all facets of their existence. What We Know and What We Need to Learn, Michigan State University. It was more than, I care about what Im teaching you. It was, I care about you personally., Then, in Gatess second year at Englewood High, CPS announced the school would close after that years freshman class graduated. However, a growing movement of labor organizations has begun aggressively campaigning for radical-left economic policy under the branding bargaining for the common good, including intersectional policy efforts in labor negotiations. Chicago Teachers Union vice president Stacy Davis Gates talks about the looming vote to decide whether members will work remotely, in opposition to the schoo. Chicago Teachers Union, CTU PAC. Chicago Teachers Union, Press Release: STRIKE! Accessed June 01, 2020. As a rank-and-file member, she was active in the charter outreach committee, clinicians steering committee and the CTU Latino Caucus policy committee. She sees work stoppages and strikes as the first step and not the last one. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. Ms. Davis Gates lives on the south side of Chicago with her husband and three children. Four years later, after undergoing brain surgery, she retired, and Sharkey, her vice president, took over. Accessed June 02, 2020. Staff reporter, Teachers Strike Puts Obama In Political Bind, NBC Chicago, September 10, 2012. CPS has had four CEOs in the past seven years, including twoBarbara Byrd-Bennett and Forrest Claypoolwho left in disgrace. It depresses you. She was actually in sixth grade, Gates later clarifies. WTTW, Chicago Teachers Union Bargaining Summary as of 10/29/2019. We dont win half the things we achieved in 2019 without Stacy, says Jackson Potter, the unions former staff coordinator. Last year, 415 children were shot here. Yet they remain a part of Gates. Really tired. Blair Paddock | May 24, 2022 8:47 pm. The rhetoric on education reform and pension reform in Chicagois upside down. [36], CTU has been an active opponent of education reforms or changes that could reduce the unions power within the education system. Issa, Nader, Chicago Teachers Union sues Betsy DeVos, CPS over coronavirus special education requirements, Chicago Sun-Times, May 20, 2020. Ms. Your messaging is atrocious. We felt like the system was being sabotaged by the people who were in charge of it, and the union was the one institution that had both the interest and the ability to do something about that. It was like a family. She shut that down pretty quickly., Kimbrough remembers Gates and Potter, Englewood Highs debate coach at the time, playing in those basketball games. Accessed June 02, 2020. The air crackled with applause. They take away the things we need the most in order to survive. That the work stoppages rob students of crucial instructional time. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. I said survive. 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