Will Chicago Teachers Hold A 1-Day Strike In May?

CHICAGO, IL — Chicago teachers are considering a one-day strike in May as a response to cost-cutting measures by Chicago Public Schools that include unpaid, forced furlough days and the possibility of ending the academic year 13 days early, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

Chicago Teachers Union leaders will discuss the single-day walkout Wednesday night during the union's House of Delegates meeting, the report stated. If the idea goes forward, the final membership vote to approve a May 1 strike — the date coincides with International Labor Day — would come in April, the report added.

Last year, Chicago teachers staged a similar strike April 1 to demand more state funding for the city's schools.

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“We’re very much thinking about how we put pressure on the state and local governments to fund schools,” CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey told the Sun-Times. “For us, everyone isolated in their own living room feeling bad about it, being laid off one day at a time, is much less effective than all of us together out in the street showing our unity with a clear message about the revenue funding our schools.”

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