The Chicago Teachers Union is accusing Mayor Lori Lightfoot of stepping in to rescind a promise by her hand-picked Chicago Public Schools leadership to give rank-and-file teachers and school support staff the same 12 weeks of paid parental leave already provided to all other 32,000 city employees.
It’s a new chapter in the long, bitter battle between the mayor and the CTU, which is backing one of its own organizers against Lightfoot in the mayoral election. The two sides have spent the last four years at loggerheads, including an 11-day strike in 2019 and two job actions during the coronavirus pandemic.
