Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff Lauds IELRB Action
Chicago, IL (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 1, 2009 -- The Illinois Education Labor Relations Board on April 30 certified the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff (ACTS) as the aggregate acceding adumbrative for a accumulation of 125 agents and agents at the three campuses of Chicago International Charter School (CICS)/Civitas Schools.
Illinois Educational Labor Relations (IELRB) Executive Director Victor Blackwell acclaimed in his order, "During the advance of the investigation, no affirmation was submitted that the Union does not represent a majority of the petitioned-for employees….The Board is annoyed that the Union has complied with the (Illinois Educational Labor Relations) Act….Accordingly, the Union is hereby certified as the absolute adumbrative of the acceding unit."
During the advance of the investigation, no affirmation was submitted that the Union does not represent a majority of the petitioned-for employees….The Board is annoyed that the Union has complied with the (Illinois Educational Labor Relations) Act….Accordingly, the Union is hereby certified as the absolute adumbrative of the acceding unit. My colleagues and I are encouraged that the IELRB accommodation moves us one footfall afterpiece to a arrangement and adherence at our schools. Management should anon admit the IELRB accommodation and admit Chicago ACTS. We are accessible and acquisitive to put the acceptance affair abaft us, accommodate a fair arrangement and do our best for our schools and our students. CICS/Civitas Schools abecedary and Chicago ACTS affiliate Jeremy Ly said, "My colleagues and I are encouraged that the IELRB accommodation moves us one footfall afterpiece to a arrangement and adherence at our schools. Management should anon admit the IELRB accommodation and admit Chicago ACTS. We are accessible and acquisitive to put the acceptance affair abaft us, accommodate a fair arrangement and do our best for our schools and our students."
Ly, a third-year fourth-grade abecedary at the Wrightwood campus, said, "We achievement CICS/Civitas is aswell committed to a alert resolution and a band-aid that is acceptable for our schools and students. CICS/Civitas administration should stop the acknowledged delays, accede with Illinois law and the IELRB, and activate bargaining. They can chase Illinois law by anon catastrophe the ambiguity for the association of teachers, staff, parents and acceptance by apropos the agents will to anatomy our union. This acceptance opens the aperture for all allotment agents in Chicago to get a articulation at plan with Chicago ACTS."
The IELRB acceptance was accepted afterwards a majority absorption petition, active by 75 percent of the educators at CICS/Civitas,, was submitted to the IELRB by Chicago ACTS on April 3, 2009. The IELRB is the Illinois accompaniment agency administering the Illinois Education Labor Relations Act (IELRA), which establishes the appropriate of able accessible educators to adapt and arrangement collectively with the accessible administration they plan for. The IELRB action represents the accompaniment of Illinois' official acceptance of the Chicago ACTS abutment formed by the educators at CICS/Civitas.
CICS/Civitas is currently affianced in a action to band accessible ascendancy over activity relations with its advisers from the IELRB and accord it to a federal agency, the National Labor Relations Board, which oversees clandestine activity relations. Chicago ACTS and the Illinois Federation of Teachers crop the position that the advisers at CICS/Civitas are active by a accessible allotment academy that receives accessible money from the humans of the city-limits of Chicago and the accompaniment of Illinois and, therefore, they should be accountable to the accompaniment activity law that was accounting especially for Illinois educators, the IELRA.
Chicago ACTS is a collective activity of the American Federation of Teachers, the Illinois Federation of Teachers and the Chicago Teachers Union. Chicago ACTS is an accessory of the IFT, AFT/AFL-CIO.
For added advice and to appearance the IELRB order, go to www.chicagoacts.org; for added advice about allotment academy agents and agents who accept accompany AFT Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff appointment www.aftacts.org.
Contact:
Gail Purkey, IFT
630/468-4080, x 4052
Or 312/909-4204
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