two tumultuous decades of involvement in union leadership, a recent standoff over COVID safety protocols, a two-week strike during 2019 contract talks. Puerto Rico has had 127,000 people contract COVID-19 and 1,200 deaths. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune). Long coveted by CTU bosses, House Bill 2275 would eliminate a provision in state law that limits what school officials are required to negotiate with the union. By Larry Sand. "Jesse Sharkey's announcement is an acknowledgment that now is the time to bring new leadership to our union. She acts tough with aldermen, but not the CTU. Chalkbeat is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to providing the information families and educators need, but this kind of work isnt possible without your help. The caucus faces another challenge from the Members First Caucus, which has criticized CTU leaders for putting their own careers ahead of the needs of the unions 25,000 members and relying on work stoppages instead of collaborating with City Hall and Chicago Public Schools officials to achieve better working conditions. I grew up on a dirt road in rural Maine, raised by a single mother who was an elementary school teacher and editor of a poetry journal. CHICAGO Please stop making threats against Chicago Teachers Union executive board member Sarah Chambers. During his tenure, clashes with Lightfoot led to three school shutdowns in the past three years, starting with a two-week strike during 2019 contract talks when the union pressed for an ambitious slate of proposals, including smaller class sizes, that went well beyond salary and benefits issues. CTU boss Jesse Sharkey is quietly leveraging the coronavirus crisis to lobby state senators to pass a bill that would improve the union's future bargaining power. Yup, the American Federation of Teachers has adopted a How some teacher unionistas spent their summer vacation, The Janus victory and ongoing whine festival. [Students] have something to say! CTU President Jesse Sharkey Had Hand In Writing CPS Letter Announcing High School Return Date -- So Why Did CTU Go On To Slam It? Under these conditions, there is immense opposition among educators and parents to the deadly reopening policy. One of those teachers was Karen Lewis, a bright and brilliant voice who would soon become known to our union, and our world, as a beloved and fearless union leader.At the time, I had no dreams of being a labor leader for the next decade. Sharkey's full statement:I am not sure I would have believed anyone had they told me I would be where I am today back in 2010, when I was elected vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union. The reopening, he said, would not work if the district simply continues to dictate to us, and admitted the city was not willing to commit to a public health metric for reopening, like a threshold COVID-19 positivity rate. He served as the union's top leader multiple times while Lewis dealt with health . You cant always get to the school board meeting. He did note the union failed in its push to avert Mayor Rahm Emanuels 2013 closures of 50 schools on the South and West sides that disproportionately affected Black students and educators. Then Lightfoot trounced Preckwinkle in every ward and embarrassed Sharkey. We urge you to send us your contact information todayand make plans to attend this important meeting. And hes the one acting like the mayor of Chicago. Hopkins was right. Reflecting on his time in union leadership, Sharkey said he has no regrets and wouldnt point to anything he would do differently. They dont have to show up to work. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune). Jesse Sharkey, Larry Sand, Measure EE, Randi Weingarten, teachers union, United Teachers of Los Angeles. Jesse Sharkey will be returning his full attention to the classroom after announcing he will not seek re-election as CTU president. 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. CTU president Jesse Sharkey, not running for re-election, refocuses on classroom. And now, it is my time to move on.What set CTU leadership apart in those early years is similar to where we find ourselves today. My youngest son, now an underclassman in high school, was a toddler when I first took office. Since then, the unions engaged in multiple actions, including as recently as this winter during a debate over COVID-19 safety protocols. Sharkey and a group of teacher union comrades decided to spend their summer vacation in Venezuela. Jesse Sharkey's decision was reported Wednesday by FOX 32 of Chicago. Most hypocritically, she will tell you that its just a coincidence that she abandoned New York City in 2012 for East Hampton, a very wealthy community on Long Islands south shore, thusavoiding paying $30,000 in city income taxes. Our union mourns the passing of President Sharkeys mother, Lee Sharkey, Main Writers & Publishers Alliances scholarship fund, Evaluation of New District Teachers Without Tenure. It was their way or the highway. Hes the boss and his people are still getting paid. Its a difficult job, Im told, and Ive been doing it a long time. Her sense of humor, her smarts. The challengers said Sharkey has been too quick to resort to labor actions that have disrupted the district. Zoom links will be provided in the week leading to the meeting. Sharkey announced Wednesday that he will step down when his term expires June 30. The bill has languished in the Senate since 2019, a source told me, at the request of former Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Soon-to-be 2023 Chicago mayoral candidate Duncan was the U.S. Secretary of Education, and also the architect of Renaissance 2010, which allowed a wave of privatizers and education reformers to close nearly 100 traditional neighborhood schools while opening 100 charter schools.We had seen the joy of teaching fall under attack by moneyed interests and corporate hacks, and we wanted to protect schools and honor classrooms by making our union more responsive and more effective. Her grit. In 2017, Lee won Irelands prestigious Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for her poem, Letter to Al, which was a poignant account of her experience with her second husband, Al Bersbach, living with dementia. Sharkey will have served four terms in CTU . Jesse Sharkey (born 1970) is an American former schoolteacher and labor leader in Chicago. We wanted members' rights to be respected, but soon realized that the forces working against educators were not just a reform movement, but a deform movement that used the turnaround model, charter proliferation and layoffs of Black educators as a pathway to a school district accountable not to people, but to profit.We were in a battle for the soul of public education, as Karen, Financial Secretary Kristine Mayle, Recording Secretary Michael Brunson and I took office at the end of Mayor Richard M. Daley's term. and European sanctions.. She added, In order to show my contrition, and not to be a distraction, I will deactivate all of my social media accounts and step back from the Chicago Teachers Union executive board.. This is something Ive been thinking about for a couple of months and would have made the announcement earlier, but for the fact that there was the omicron surge, and we were in this dispute with the board about a safety agreement back in December and January, Sharkey told reporters. It has been more than a decade since the CORE (Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators) faction, made up of members of the defunct International Socialist Organization (ISO), the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and other pseudo-left groups, took over the CTU based on rhetoric about social justice unionism and union democracy. Chambers, a longtime co-chair of CORE, calls herself a socialist, traveled to Venezuela in 2019 with a delegation of Chicago teachers, and is regularly interviewed in Labor Notes and Jacobin, the semi-official publication of the DSA. Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson, who wants to open schools, was interviewed Thursday on WBEZs Reset program as negotiations with the union continue. Jesse Sharkey (center) and his wife Julie Fain are seen in a family photo on a trip to Disneyland in 2020. Both have deep experience in public education, but differ on many key challenges facing the school district. Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Jesse Sharkey will resign from his role at the helm of the union when his fourth term ends in late June. To fight for this, we urge teachers to get more information and join the Socialist Equality Party. CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey will not run for reelection, he announced to the CTU House of Delegates Wednesday. He dictates terms. You dont get bargaining rights, an elected school board, a moratorium on school closures, a strong charter educator division without him. But he says thats due to the CTUs highly democratic nature. We expect students and staff to be in school on Monday, she said. Rahm would arrive the next year. Lee Sharkey passed away Oct. 18, after a brief battle with cancer. Gates listed fine arts education funding, sports funding, and an end to using standardized testing as the single defining metric for students educational progress as some of her primary goals for the union moving forward. J.B. Pritzker's signature to give CTU the power to demand negotiations and ultimately call a strike over issues such as shorter school days, staffing and class-size requirements that state law leaves up to the school system's discretion. CHICAGO Jesse Sharkey, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, will step down at the end of his term this summer after two tumultuous decades of involvement in union leadership that saw the organization become a political powerhouse. Sharkey acknowledged the difficulties of the job, both politically and personally. The entire nation saw what happened when downtown and the Near North Side were hit with that second wave of looting that she should have stopped. She is the author ofWalking Backwards(Tupelo, 2016),Calendars of Fire(Tupelo, 2013), and five earlier books of poems, as well as a number of chapbooks. He said he has been mulling the decision to not seek reelection for several months, noting that an all-encompassing role has taken a toll, and becoming entrenched in the top position would go against the unions spirit. The district said principals have asked for expanded camera coverage on their campuses. Sharkey will have served four terms in CTU leadership when he leaves his position in June 2022. CHICAGO, Oct. 19, 2020The Chicago Teachers Union is saddened to announce the passing of President Jesse Sharkey's mother, Lee, at age 75. The TRiiBE is a digital media platform that is reshaping the narrative of Black Chicago and giving ownership It was shocking for many - our enemies, especially - to see teachers take the lead. And while he thinks the challenges of COVID-19 have prompted CTU leaders to take tough stances, he says the need to stand firm predates the pandemic. CTU President Jesse Sharkey wont seek re-election. She instilled in her son the importance of compassion, a strong sense of justice and a commitment to the greater good. She was a graduate of Brandeis University and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is resting at home with mild symptoms. Follow along with our newsletter. We have students recognizing the power of their voice, and their action, to fight for the schools and the city they deserve. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey will not seek reelection after a tumultuous year negotiating re-openings with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Follow whats happening in Chicago schools in our newsletter, delivered every weekday. Again, time to #NEA/AFTexit. Chambers' vacation photos made the local TV news, and word of her hypocrisy spread like a pandemic across the globe. Chicago 2023 mayoral election: Former schools chief, teachers union organizer headed to runoff, In a tight mayoral race, Paul Vallas legacy as Chicago schools first CEO comes into focus, Gov. We urge you to attend an online meetingon Thursday at 7 p.m. CST to form an Illinois Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee. All of what were trying to do as a union is to impact their lives positively. As part of the new deal, the district agreed to provide students and staff members KN95 masks; abide by metrics that would temporarily transition a school to remote learning; and increase incentives for substitute teachers. Im confident in Stacy Davis Gates both as our unions most effective spokesperson, this unions best strategist, and as a capable leader who will inspire this union and the city, Sharkey added. Columns are opinion content that reflect the views of the writers. . Sharkey, Davis Gates, and other top officers met with reporters virtually Wednesday morning to discuss the announcement, embargoed until Sharkey could share the news with rank-and-file members at an evening meeting. The Windy Citys teachers union is on the verge of yet another strike. Heres how they answered 10 important education questions. The right-wing campaign, however, has failed to undermine support for teachers who are struggling, along with parents, with inadequate resources for online learning, the dangers of the pandemic and the indifference of school and city officials. CTU and CPS initially failed to secure a safety agreement for this school year, and the district canceled classes for five days after the unions rank-and-file members voted not to work in person during Januarys coronavirus surge. CTU President Jesse Sharkey and Vice President Stacy Davis Gates share a hug after announcing on Oct. 30, 2019, that they'd reached a tentative deal with Mayor Lori LIghtfoot to end the two-week teachers strike. She said CPS is trying to make things safe, establishing the same precautionary measures used by more than 100 Chicago private schools that have been open, and 2,000 day care centers that have been open since June. Lee later taught at the University of Maine at Farmington, founded the Women Studies Program there, and served as senior editor of theBeloit Poetry Journal, one of the countrys oldest and most respected poetry magazines. Sharkey said CTU leadership has set a target date of Jan. 18 for a return to in-class instruction. "Our union will remain a force, and our dogged defense of public schools and the willingness to speak truth to power are not going anywhere. All educators, school workers, parents and students who support this initiative should join our Facebook groupand contact us today to establish local rank-and-file committees in your school and neighborhood. Lightfoot could say that theyre in violation of their contract, that they broke it by authorizing what amounts to an illegal strike. He took over the top job in 2018 from Lewis, who died last year after a battle with brain cancer. He is backing his second-in-command, Stacy Davis Gates, in a May union leadership election. Delegates will vote whether to have both a delegates training and a House of Delegates meeting in March or just one or the other. Where Karen gave us the infrastructure, the confidence, the boldness, the idea that these things could happen, Jesse helped to see those things through. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy We urge all those who want to join this struggle to attend and help build this public meetingon Thursday at 7 p.m. CST to form an Illinois Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, and to send us your contact informationtoday. Sharkey said it will be up to CORE to determine its leadership slate for the May election. Mary Esposito-Usterbowski, the presidential candidate on the Members First slate, released a statement saying Sharkeys announcement is an acknowledgment that now is the time to bring new leadership to our union. Lifes a beach under the basket for Lemonts Miles Beachum. The two are shown at a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Clergy Breakfast in Chicago in 2015. In 2012, Troy Senik wrote The Worst Union in America, a title he bestowed on the California Teachers Association. Infection rates are closer to 20 percent in working class neighborhoods where low-wage workers are forced to work, rely on mass transit and live in large, multigenerational households. He led us through that, Davis Gates told reporters. I am also mad at him because were already in an election cycle and I dont want this to be politicized because Jesse doesnt deserve that, she added. Is it the $100 million in ventilation system upgrades that isn't good enough? I was just a kid who wanted to change the world. He served as the unions top leader multiple times while Lewis dealt with health struggles, and was elected to the presidency in 2019. And now come the fun death threats DMs," Chambers posted on her now-deleted Twitter account. Brian Hopkins, who called her out for her failure to stop the downtown looting that led to flight to the suburbs. Shes that kid being bullied in the schoolyard by Sharkey and his pals. The hysterical reaction to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Janus v. AFSCME case, which frees public employees in 22 states from having to pay any money to a union as a condition of employment, has Chicken Little nodding in solidarity. Teacher and poet raised her son to be compassionate and committed to the greater good. After handing trillions to the major corporations, both parties plan to gut public education and other vital services. Sharkey, 52, became acting president in 2014 while Lewis battled brain cancer. At a time when most U.S. citizens havebenefited from the Trump tax cuts, the American Federation of Teachers joined up with a motley assemblage of leftwing organizations over the summer on what was billed as the Tax the Rich Bus Tour. The road show, which lasted 35 days and ended just last week, was replete with the usual tropes including demands that the rich and corporations pay their fair share and other socialist-inspired class warfare twaddle. The choice between unions becoming more ecumenical or more radical has been made. Hes already the boss. He is very, very, very far-left and he is the lead labor representative of an organization with a $7.7B budget, funded mostly by property . In December, Sharkey, the presidents of the UTLA, OEA and other unions penned a love letter to President-elect Joe Biden that covered up his support for forcing teachers back into unsafe schools. A lot of the things that motivated me to run, I think weve achieved.. It is an outfit run by upper-middle-class functionaries who are completely insulated from the disastrous consequences their actions have and continue to produce for rank-and-file teachers and working class families in the city. Interestingly, there is no specific plan to improve on the districts76.6percentgraduation rate or address the fact thatless than half of the 2019 Los Angeles Unified School District graduating class will be eligible to attend one of the states public universities. CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey will not run for reelection, he announced to the CTU House of Delegates Wednesday. Many have placed the blame on Lightfoot. Lee Sharkey passed away Oct. 18, after a brief battle with cancer. J.B. Pritzker releases report on services for youth mental health, Six education issues to follow during the Illinois legislative session, Chicago Public Schools will add, upgrade security cameras in bold investment over the next three years. J.B Pritzkers Childrens Behavioral Transformation Initiative makes 12 recommendations for how the state can support families and children in need of mental health services. Because it is time," Sharkey said. Listen to The Chicago Way podcast with John Kass and Jeff Carlin at www.wgnradio.com/category/wgn-plus/thechicagoway. Current hero: John Brown Please talk to any and every teacher you know about this, and remind them that as a result of theJanusruling, they no longer have to fund a bunch of socialist activists masquerading as educators. Like the CTU, the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), the Oakland Education Association (OEA) and other unions have betrayed strikes, collaborated in the attacks on teachers and public education, and colluded in the murderous back-to-school policy. Candidates have taken aim at Vallas, arguing he helped create Chicago schools current financial problems and laid the groundwork that led to the eventual closing of Black and Latino schools. Gates has not officially announced her intention to run for the CTU presidency. I dont think theres any reason for me to say anything further.. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey speaks at Uplift Community High School in the Uptown neighborhood on January 12, 2021. They can ignore the data. Rather than presenting solutions for the greater good of students and teachers, union bosses seem to be posturing for a possible strike. For example, she lashed out at Near North Side Ald. Oh, to be sure, some may fall into that category, but for many others, it is nothing more than a call to advance Bolshevik bushwa. She could announce that shes not going to pay teachers if they dont show up to school. It was tough., Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey speaks at Uplift Community High School in the Uptown neighborhood on January 12, 2021. See the CPS Calendar page for more dates and information. The CTU has been a trailblazer for the career opportunities of other left union reformers in Los Angeles, New York and other cities. She said she hears the concerns of teachers who are fearful for their health, just as I understand the concerns and fears of the day care workers, the factory workers, the health care workers, the grocery store and construction and transit and sanitation and other workers whose jobs do not allow them to work remotely and stay at home.. Yeah, there have been some conflicts for contracts, (but) those contracts have really set a bar and moved new resources into our schools and if it was difficult for those changes to sink through to the people on the other side of the table, I dont apologize for it.. He will return to the classroom as an educator. Whatever the phony rhetoric, when it comes to sending teachers back to infected schools, the CTU and other unions are on the other side of the barricade. I will return to where my journey began: the classroom. My mother passed away in October of 2020, followed by a brutal school reopening campaign and Karen's death in February of 2021. She could say that schools were opened, and teachers didnt come to work, so she had no choice but to stop paying them. The installation of Chambers, former ISO leader and now-CTU President Jesse Sharkey, and other middle class pseudo-left elements has done nothing to change the anti-working class character of the CTU. Here in L.A., the United Teachers of Los Angeles is also talking socialist red. Ron Huberman was CPS CEO. Larry Sand is president of the California Teachers Empowerment Network. Find the Zoom link and other relevant information on the AFT Black Caucus, Chicago Chapter website, specifically the[]. I was just a teacher whose school had been threatened with closure, and I was surrounded by educators in similar situations who were fed up with conditions in CPS. But I am. Sharkey also reflected on the loss of former CTU president Karen Lewis, who died a year ago this month. We'll probably never know because the CTU officials continually make vague proclamations about what's wrong with the Chicago public school plan without evidence to back it up. International Committee of the Fourth International, Sign up for the WSWS Educators Newsletter, attend and help build this public meeting, regardless of their familys health conditions, Chicago schools press ahead with reopening despite wide opposition among teachers and parents, Illinois high school student dies of COVID-19, Opposition mounts in US over deadly rush to restart in-person schooling. We will also be hosting a national call-in meeting at 1 p.m. EST this Saturday, January 9. Watch David Norths remarks commemorating 25 years of the World Socialist Web Site and donate today. And they will stress that is the fault of the U.S., of course. Christel is our soul, and Maria is our heart. I will do so with fondness for my time in leadership, because I had the joy and privilege of representing educators who care.I am confident in the future of our union because I know the human quality of our members - how much love they bring to this profession and their schools every day, and how much they value the humanity of our students and school communities.I thank them for electing me to lead, and for everything they have given to me, the labor movement, our school communities, our union and our city. The Maine native and father of two taught social studies at Senn High School and Chicago Vocational Career Academy before being elected vice president of the union in 2010 alongside President Karen Lewis. Schools were being wracked by closures, by corporate de-form education reform that made students and our school communities into targets and objects of derision, and we felt like we needed to form a unified coalition between parents, students, and educators and take back some of that power, Sharkey said. Jesse Sharkey won't seek reelection as head of 25,000-member Chicago Teachers Union The former social studies teacher will step away from CTU leadership when his fourth term ends June 30 and . He called Davis Gates the unions most effective spokesperson and most effective strategist, voicing confidence that their caucus will back her as union president candidate. While feigning opposition to Lightfoots plans, the CTU has opposed any strike action, leaving teachers to fight on their own. In an effort at damage control, Chambers, who at first defended her actions, issued a statement of contrition and announced she would step back from the CTU executive board, at least temporarily. On Sunday evening, CPS CEO Janice Jackson admitted in her letter to Chicago aldermen that only 37 percent of parents of pre-K through eighth grade and special education students have stated intention to return for in-person learning. Describing himself as more of a pragmatic, traditional trade unionist, he once said he worried about following on the heels of the charismatic Lewis. And needless to say, any problems with Venezuela were blamed on U.S. ", MORE ON PATCH: CTU Loses Credibility Blaming Push For Reopening School On Racism, While the fearmongering propaganda and Twitter hypocrisy are important to note, they shouldn't distract from the fact that CTU bosses never say exactly why the school system's detailed safety protocols remain wholly unacceptable for a slow rollout for socially distant in-person learning. To make matters worse, public health experts believe the new, more virulent strain of the virus, which spreads particularly fast among young people, is already in Chicago, sparking the latest surge in cases. Sharkey stressed the standoff had nothing to do with his decision to step down. First victim: Coca Cola. Members First, a coalition of fed-up rank-and-file Chicago Teachers Union members, launched a campaign to oust union boss Jesse Sharkey (center) and vice president Stacy Davis Gates (left). On his own list of proudest accomplishments, Sharkey included the groundbreaking 2019 contract that mandated a social worker and nurse in every school by 2024, and a successful effort to unionize more charter school educators. The announcement came during a Zoom press conference on Wednesday morning where Sharkey, Vice President Stacy Davis Gates and a select few CTU officers shared their thoughts on Sharkeys time as president with a few members of the media. He then said the CTU made three additional offers to the city on a return-to-work plan to sell to teachers, including a delayed start of classes until teachers receive a first dose of the vaccine, with an extension of the school year into the summer; the return of only those teachers and students who volunteer to do in-person learning; or the resumption of in-person learning with mass testing of all teachers and students, all representing unacceptable public health risks. They balked at naming names for potential vice president candidates. CHICAGO Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey announced Wednesday night that he will not seek re-election this summer for a fifth term. To prevent the reopening of schools, Chicago educators must organize independently of the CTU through the formation of an Illinois Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, which will unite educators, parents, students and the broader working class, to prepare strike action to close all schools and nonessential workplaces. What the CTU boss doesn't mention in his letter to senators is those meetings with school officials about reopening plans have devolved into union demands for a pledge to lobby for "defunding police" and "rent abatement," according to people familiar with the closed-door discussions. @CTULocal1 prez, dad of two, married to @juliefain. We believe every The CTU is an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers and the Illinois Federation of Teachers and is the third-largest teachers local in the United States. March 17, 2021 / 5:12 PM / CBS Chicago CHICAGO (CBS) -- Time. I deeply regret my actions and I fully understand why many are upset, her Facebook said. 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