Chicago Teachers Union

We, teachers, and other educational personnel in the Chicago Public Schools, being members of the Chicago Teachers Union, do hereby declare this Union to have the following purposes:

1. to protect and improve the services of the public schools as a social agency for developing the capacities of the young and promoting adult education;
2. to promote and guarantee efficient and faithful service from us to the public and to insure to us in return for that service a fair reward and a just security;
3. in accordance with the Agreement between the Board of Education of the City of Chicago and Chicago Teachers Union, to assert, secure, and protect the inherent and fundamental equity in our jobs;
4. as the sole collective bargaining agent for members of the bargaining unit, to establish and maintain orderly and practicable democratic processes in the management of the Chicago public schools, in accordance with the terms of the Agreement;
5. to maintain a relationship of mutual assistance and cooperation with organized labor;
6. to unify the educators of traditional public schools and public charter schools in the City of Chicago, together with other Chicago-area educators that may join with this Union.
7. to promote racial, economic and social justice in order to achieve educational justice and build community and labor coalitions to achieve that objective.

The Chicago Teachers Union is a transformative labor union of nearly 30,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, clinicians, and staff in the Chicago Public Schools and charter schools. We are a global leader in the fight for educational justice, racial equity, economic justice, workers’ power and the right of all students, all people, and all communities to thrive.