Why the Chicago Teachers Union Always Gets What It Wants

Why the Chicago Teachers Union Always Gets What It Wants

For the fifth time in 10 years, the Chicago Teachers Union shut students out of the classroom this month. Covid mitigation policy was the reported reason for the recent four-day walkout in the nation’s third-largest school system, but a look at the CTU’s decadeslong history of strikes and walkouts shows the pandemic was an excuse for the union’s latest power play.