[Daily Caller] The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has been on thin ice with Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot due to their tactics during negotiations to reopen schools over the winter months. Lightfoot seems to indicate she is becoming wary of over-politicization of unions, in an interview with The New York Times published Sunday.
Lightfoot told The New York Times that her city government has "labor peace" with all but two of the major labor organizations in the city—the Fraternal Order of Police, which Lightfoot accused of having "right-wing Trump aspirations," and the CTU.
"When you have unions that have other aspirations beyond being a union, and maybe being something akin to a political party, then there’s always going to be conflict," Lightfoot said, according to The New York Times.
When asked what she believes the CTU’s aims are beyond typical union-based collective bargaining, Lightfoot said "they’d like to take over not only Chicago Public Schools, but take over running the city government. That’ll play itself out over time. I don’t really spend time, and certainly not in the middle of a pandemic, worrying about the politics. But politics intrudes, always," The New York Times reported. |