Christel was a Chicago Teachers Union organizer during the 2012 strike, as well as the three-day march in 2013 and CTU Summer Organizing Institute prior to becoming a Union field representative in 2017. Continue to pray for Ukraine. We dont have infrastructure in our public schools to deal with the impact of the traumas our youths walk into our schools with, Gates says. They take away the things we need the most in order to survive. When you hear my fire, you hear Hazel. Belsha, Kalyn, Chicago teachers union leaders back Sanders, becoming latest to offer personal endorsements as unions tread carefully, Chalkbeat, March 04, 2020. I love you.. Ms. Davis Gates lives on the South Side of Chicago with her husband and three children. Even as a sixth grader, it bugged herjust as the injustice and tragedy she sees now motivate her. While at the CTU, Ms. Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. The Executive Board of the Chicago Teachers Union is comprised of the elected officers, committee chairs, appointed members and union staff. As the Political and Legislative Director, Stacy works to ensure that public educators, students, and their families have a strong voice in the policy making process. Konkol, Mark, CTU Boss Talks Like Working Man, Lives Like Wealthiest 1 Percent, Patch Chicago, August 27, 2019. There are lots of ways in which they dont really want to be there, Sharkey says. Last year, 415 children were shot here. Accessed June 02, 2020. We dont walk backwards and pretend that yesterday was better than what we can imagine tomorrow to be. Elizabeth Warren, a presidential candidate at the time, joined teachers on the picket line on a blustery October morning. [31], Between March 2018 and July 2019, just prior to the 2019 teachers strike, the Chicago Teachers Union spent almost $1.5 million on political activities. Stacy Davis Gates has served as the Political and Legislative Director for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) for the past six years. Wagner Acerbi Horta and Brendan Rigney, Beyond the picket line: Union clout, tallied, Center for Illinois Politics, October 27, 2019. Prior to that, she served as the unions Political and Legislative Director. This outcome led the CFT to prioritize collective bargaining rights as a primary goal. Christel Williams is a 25-year veteran of Chicago Public Schools, serving as a PSRP delegate, district supervisor, functional vice president and American Federation of Teachers-Illinois Federation of Teachers (AFT-IFT) convention delegate in that time. By the time teachers and students returned to classrooms in November 2019four months before COVID-19 would force schools to close againthe union had successfully bargained for a social worker, nurse, and librarian in every school, $35 million in spending to reduce overcrowded classrooms, a 16 percent pay raise for teachers over five years, and a 40 percent pay raise for teaching assistants, clerks, and other historically underpaid support staff members. 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Under famous union leader Margaret Haley (known as the Lady Labor Slugger), the CTF recognized that it needed to persuade political officials to achieve these goals. Ms. Davis Gates has also spearheaded statewide legislative campaigns to pass the strongest charter school accountability measures in the country, push for the restoration of the bargaining rights of Chicago Public Schools employees, and fully fund public education by ending tax loopholes for the 1%. The air crackled with applause. Our courage, our organizing, our value are necessary in this moment.. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. While at the CTU, Ms. Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. She showed up to cheer on the football team on Friday nights. She and her students attended the community meetings that were part of the school-closing process. By her second semester of teaching, Gates started looking for ways to make inroads with her students that had little to do with curriculum. Chicago Tribune, August 20, 2019. The CTUF also funds some professional development programs for teachers and scholarships for underserved communities. chicago.suntimes.com. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do. The teacher alleged that she was being forced to subsidize CTUs speech, and this was a violation of her own first amendment rights. They were so fearless in their ability to dream of me in this moment. I see 10, 20, 30, 45, 100 little brown girls that look just like her. Email Monica Trevino at Mtrevino@ift-aft.org. This is an organization that historically has represented an awful lot of important stuff in the aspirations of working-class Chicagoans in general, but Black working-class Chicagoans especially. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. Or, Omicrons peaking. As for politics, Gates says shes not sure shes cut out for it. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. The Federation challenged this rule in court, with mixed results. CTU is a local union of the American Federation of Teachers, the countrys second-largest national teachers union. I aint said live yet. Thank You! 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. These are very difficult human conditions that were trying to make sense of, she says. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), leading the CTU to declare itself neutral in the 2020 Democratic primaries. And theyre not paying attention to a Chicago where you have two Black women who have leadership and influence who think differently. Stacy Davis Gates is the President of the Chicago Teachers Union. Neither issue stuck, but the negotiations forced the two sidesand everyone watching themto grapple with how learning and achieving are affected by far more than class size and pedagogy. [1] Chicago Teachers Union, About. That was followed by another five days of canceled classes after members voted to return to remote learning during this Januarys omicron surge and the district responded by locking them out of their virtual classrooms. [12] The CTU won recognition as the collective bargaining agent for its members in 1966, and reached its first collective bargaining contract in 1967. Net assets declined to less than $1 million. The CTUF has lost $2 million per year since the sale of the Fewkes Tower. They led every meeting with school-based discussions of billionaires, banks and racism., The union started partnering with community organizations known largely for fighting gentrificationthe Pilsen Alliance, Logan Square Neighborhood Alliance, Kenwood-Oakland Community Organizationto attend school board meetings and host community forums on school closures. We dont win half the things we achieved in 2019 without Stacy, says Jackson Potter, the unions former staff coordinator. Accessed June 02, 2020. It made me feel like a failure, says Gates. American Federation of Teachers (AFT) STACY DAVIS-GATES, VICE PRESIENT. However, in 2012, after 9 months of contentious negotiations between CTU, the Chicago School Board, and then-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), who had been actively closing or privatizing failing schools, the CTU went on strike again. How many members are in the Chicago Teachers Union? [37] In 2012, contract negotiations stalled over Mayor Emanuels proposal to use student test scores in teacher evaluations, as well as his effort to give principals more hiring authority. For nearly 20 years before becoming president of the teachers union, she was a high school chemistry teacher. Ms. Davis Gates is currently on leave from the classroom, where she taught high school social studies for over a decade at Englewood, Clemente, and Mason Community Links High Schools. When the school closed in 2008, Gates moved to Roberto Clemente Community Academy in Ukrainian Village, a high school that had been tasked with absorbing students reassigned from Austin Community Academy High School, which was shuttered in 2007. [29] [30] In 2015, donations to the CTU PAC amounted to over $1.5 million, and the CTU PAC spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in support of Cook County Commissioner Jesus Garcia (D), who ran against incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D). It seems pretty dangerous. What am I missing? Ive adopted the same two questions. Neither side backs down from the fight. (When asked about it on the Crains Chicago Business podcast A.D. Q&A in January, Gates said that the notion of her running was something she first heard from Lightfoots lips and was not a priority for her. [23], The Chicago Teachers Union also operates a philanthropic organization, the Chicago Teachers Union Foundation (CTUF). Chicago Teachers Union, 2019-2020 Dues. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government, and challenge school privatizers and union busters. Gates and her husband, Kevin, have three childrenin second, fifth, and seventh grades. That the work stoppages rob students of crucial instructional time. And someone with those qualitiessensitive, brilliant, cares a lot about justiceif youre a Black woman with those qualities, you get a lot of people who take umbrage., He recalls a story that Gates told him years ago about being the only Black girl in the gifted program at her South Bend elementary school. And she did go on the trip. She played in student-staff basketball games. She is also the Executive Vice President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and an Executive Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers. The Members First caucus came in with 27%, and the REAL caucus with 17%. Ms. Gates, outstanding articulation of concise and pointed perspectives given on WCPT 820 AM on 10/18. Davis-Gates will be moving up from her position as vice president when . In 2017, Davis Gates was elected chair of United Working Families, an independent political organization for working class people and movements. Occupation: Vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union. [6], The Chicago Teachers Unions annual dues for 2019-2020 are $1,146.28 for each teacher. We know how to teach remotely. She also serves as a board member for the Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE), a nexus for organizations working at the intersection of the struggle for racial justice and Wall Street accountability. Ms. Davis Gates lives on the south side of Chicago with her husband and three children. When the CTU had the city nailed to the wall during last years 11-day-long strike, the unions No. It really makes you understand how the city works and who the city works for and who the city doesnt, says Dave Stieber, a social studies and poetry teacher at Kenwood Academy High School and a vocal CTU supporter on social media. When the group first challenged the unions current administration three years ago, Sharkey won reelection handily, with two-thirds of the vote. Accessed June 02. Salary Breakdown (2019) Total Compensation . 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