If Mayor Brandon Johnson was willing to give Chicago Public Schools employees 12 weeks of paid parental leave without demanding that it be negotiated at the bargaining table, he should do the same for police officers, according to their union president.
Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara helped to engineer the union’s endorsement of vanquished mayoral challenger Paul Vallas and warned that Johnson’s election would pave the way for an “exodus like we’ve never seen before,” with up to 1,000 officers leaving the force.
