The Chicago Teachers Union will have “some pretty strong demands” in the new teachers contract, union president Stacy Davis Gates said Thursday, even though the mayor of Chicago is now one of their own: former teacher turned paid CTU organizer Brandon Johnson.
In negotiations, “the driving force has always been inequity and injustice that Black and Brown students and their families experience in this city. And that injustice did not roll away on April 4. We just got another gladiator in a place of power,” Davis Gates told the Sun-Times.
