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‘We believe we are in compliance with the law’

Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller

* I noticed this week that the Chicago Teachers Union used both of its political action committees to each contribute the maximum amount allowed by state law ($68,500) to a recently formed committee with no other known contributors…

Hmm. Are they using two committees to get around the contribution caps?

* State law limits union locals to one committee each, so I reached out to Matt Dietrich at the Illinois State Board of Elections…

The statute (10 ILCS 5/9-2(d)) states that “…no natural person, trust, partnership, committee, association, corporation, or other organization or group of persons forming a political action committee shall maintain or establish more than one political action committee.”

However, in the case of unions, each local can have its own committee. So assuming the Local 1 PAC is a separate group or a local of the IL Federation of Teachers, the two committees are fine. If they are just using two different names for what is actually the same group, that would be a problem.

I looked around and couldn’t find evidence of two different CTU entities.

* I then reached out to the CTU’s H Klapp-Kote and asked: “Are the Chicago Teachers Union and CTU Local 1 somehow separate entities? If so, how can that be?” The response…

We believe we are in compliance with the law.

I followed up, but haven’t heard back. Such transparency. /s

* In somewhat related news, Gov. JB Pritzker was asked today about this story

In the latest twist in the ongoing leadership struggle at Chicago Public Schools, there soon could be major turnover at the Board of Education.

No resignations had been handed in to the mayor’s office as of Monday afternoon, but a source close to the board confirmed conversations are ongoing about the makeup of the board for the next few months.

Pritzker’s response

What would I hope they would consider before they might make a decision like that? Yeah, first of all, I do not know the members of the Chicago Board of Education that were appointed by the mayor. I would hope that their number one consideration is what’s best for the students and for their parents and families. That ought to be uppermost in everybody’s minds. And stability, getting a contract done. Those are two, you know, very, very high priorities.

Let’s get past this contract negotiation as best they can with the resources that are available to do that. It’s always a compromise. I mean, I’ve been governor now for five and a half years. I’ve gone through two sets of union negotiations. In fact, more than that, because they’re often stragglers that negotiate. We negotiate at other times. But everybody has to compromise because there isn’t all the money in the world available to do all the things that that we’d all like to do. And then at the same time, you know, you want to make sure that you’re recognizing the dignity that the workers deserve and that the pay that they deserve and the benefits that they deserve. So those are the competing forces. I hope that those things get taken into consideration by all the members of the Board of Education.

I hope people don’t resign. I don’t know why they should or would. At this point, we’re about to elect a new, at least half of the school board in November. So if you think about it, it’s five weeks away. You know, at a minimum, let’s elect those new members.

Emphasis added.

* And, finally…


That one made me chuckle.

       

14 Comments
  1. - SWSider - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 12:01 pm:

    == So those are the competing forces. I hope that those things get taken into consideration by all the members of the Board of Education.==

    Ever since his trans bathroom fiasco, the guv has become a master of saying nothing.


  2. - low level - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 12:04 pm:

    “If CEO Martinez continues to cause instability”

    Talk about projection. Good one, CTU…


  3. - Google Is Your Friend - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 12:05 pm:

    - SWSider - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 12:01 pm:

    Look out, it’s your shadow!


  4. - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 12:06 pm:

    I thought the Mayor said yesterday that he didn’t ask for Martinez’s resignation?


  5. - Larry Bowa Jr. - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 12:07 pm:

    “Ever since his trans bathroom fiasco, the guv has become a master of saying nothing.”

    I’m not on facebook - what was the ‘trans bathroom fiasco?’

    I think Pritzker was pretty clear where he stands on a negotiation that’s not going to involve him. You want him to get out a hammer and threaten to bash CTU with it?


  6. - low level - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 12:13 pm:

    == You want him to get out a hammer and threaten to bash CTU with it?==

    That’s exactly what CTU wants so they can make him the bad guy. The governor isn’t falling for it.


  7. - Garfield Ridge Guy - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 12:39 pm:

    This is just me being ignorant, but regarding the ask for teachers to have the same termination protections that Martinez has: Can’t you already not fire CTU members without cause? Don’t they already have sweeping protections, largely based upon seniority, in the event of layoffs?


  8. - JS Mill - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 12:53 pm:

    =largely based upon seniority=

    Teacher tenure, not seniority, provides their protection. Tenure gives them a property right to their job and requires due process. Seniority gives them some rights and protection in the case of a Reduction in Force (RIF) but not even close to what tenure provides them.


  9. - Lurker - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 12:54 pm:

    @Matt Dietrich, you needed to add in your response “we’ll check into it.” They are not in compliance should be the default posture in your position.


  10. - pragmatist - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 12:57 pm:

    It’s good to see CTU get every goofy idea out of their systems so when they lose it all in 2027, they can say they left it all on the field and go back to doing what they do best: demonize and protest.


  11. - ZC - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 1:21 pm:

    Whenever I think about campaign finance law today, I think of that rugby match scene in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.


  12. - Three Dimensional Checkers - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 2:16 pm:

    “We believe we are in compliance with the law.” SCOTUS said this is a defense right?


  13. - Two Left Feet - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 4:31 pm:

    The negotiations should go like this: here is the money that has been budgeted for teachers, where would you like that money to go in the contract (raises, more teachers, severance, etc). Instead, CPS didn’t budget for any increase in the contracts, while the union asks for the sun and tells CPS to find the money. To add more complexity, maybe there will be a change in leadership at the union.


  14. - Frida's boss - Tuesday, Oct 1, 24 @ 7:15 pm:

    I thought the teachers union spent all their campaign money on Brandon’s race.
    Isn’t that why they had to do a short-term increase in dues to make up for their debt?
    Did that increase ever go down, or are the teachers still paying that increase, which is now being used to put in its selected members?


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