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As the district and union tackle negotiations over a new labor contract, Jen Johnson - the former chief of staff for the Chicago Teachers Union - will find herself on the opposite side of the table from where she sat during highly contentious contract talks in 2019 and later over reopening school buildings during the pandemic.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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The inherent conflict-of-interest is astounding.
Her job is to simply shovel as much taxpayer money as possible to CTU coffers and CTU members. A continuous robbery of the real working citizens of Chicago and certainly criminal collusion.
Hmm, is she related to Jeh Johnson?
Another failure in the making
Johnson putting a crooked corrupt union racketeer in charge of schools — yup — that tracks
“Jen Johnson – the former chief of staff for the Chicago Teachers Union – will find herself on the opposite side of the table from where she sat during highly contentious contract talks in 2019 and later over reopening school buildings during the pandemic.”
No, she won’t. It’s a round table, and they’re all on the same side.
Hide your children and your wallet…..
Jen Johnson another CTU sheeple!!
WOW!!, After reading this piece can there be any zero doubt CPS and CTU are one and the same. Interesting CTUs–Sustainable Community Schools idea seems just like Vallas proposal to turn CPS schools into community hubs running after hours and on weekends staffed by non-profits hiring folks from the neighborhoods. But I’m sure, instead, the CTUs–Sustainable Community Schools would be staffed by CTU members at astronomical prices. And who knows if those CTU member staffed Sustainable Community Schools will even be staffed by folks hired from the neighborhoods?