Latest bureaucratic stall? New 'Medicare' Blue Cross HMO rules leaving older retired teachers in pain... Chicago Teachers Pension Fund is apparently lying and stalling older retirees who are being denied necessary medications, often in life threatening situations...
How many other retired teachers are facing the new rules about prescription drugs -- and suffering pain because of those rules? I have been on Medicare and Blue Cross for about 14 years and never . . .
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Many mourn loss of mother of Howard Heath...
The Mother of Howard Heath, The Mother of Howard Heath, former CTU Vice President, current Retiree Delegate and phone bank coordinator, passed away on August 26, 2016 and was memorialized on Friday September 2 with . . .
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Education sorority give award to Lotty Blumenthal... Chicago union activist gets awards after nearly a half century of work on vocational education and women's rights...
On July 23, 2016, Phi Delta Kappa (PDK). a professional association of educators dedicated to "Service, Research and Leadership," honored CTU member Carlene (Lotty) Blumenthal (this reporter) at a luncheon. Blumenthal received two awards. She . . .
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MEDIA WATCH: Chicago Sun-Times does anti pension propaganda behind the smokescreen of 'news analysis'...
Sun-Times City Hall Reporter Fran Spielman, in her "Pension Contention" article of July 29, 2016, forgot that if you subtract the 974 administrators with pensions of over $100,000 pension, the pensions of the remaining 27,740 . . .
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Do CPS 'College Readiness' bureaucrats get a paid day off for Bastille Day?... Chicago Public Schools can't even find the phone number for its vocational and 'career' programs, let alone provide a list of schools' offerings to a caller
In the last month, the Tribune Business Section had at least two articles by two different writers describing the thousands of jobs for workers in skilled areas as drafting, machinery, electronics, and others. In its . . .
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NLG honors CTU lawyer team
The Chicago Chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild honored Chicago Teacher Union lawyers Robert Bloch, Tom Geoghegan, Randall Schmidt, and Robin Potter with the "Arthur Kinoy People's Law Award". The award is given in "Recognition . . .
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CLUW holds successful convention in Reno
About 500 delegates (as well as family members) attended the bi-annual convention of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) in Reno from November 20 to November 23, 2013. Union women from Chicago were, as . . .
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Retiree luncheon
The Retiree Chapter held its Holiday Luncheon on Dec. 19, 2012 at Maggiano"s Little Italy. The festivites included a social hour with appetizers. Of the strips of fried eggplant, zuccini, at cheese sticks, Abraham Tally, . . .
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Huge crowd at funeral of Rosalind Lewis, teacher and union activist
Between 800 and 1,000 people were at the funeral for Chicago Teachers Union leader Rosalind Ann Price Lewis on Saturday, Feb. 4th, 2012, on Chicago's South Side. A long -time delegate for Marshall High School, . . .
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Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) honors Karen Lewis
On October 21, 2011, a Friday, at 7:00 p.m., Karen Lewis and other union local presidents in their first term as presidents were honored in a formal reception hosted by the Coalition of Labor Union . . .
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Education funding 'Summit' at North Side College Prep High School in Chicago
On March 24, 2011 an educational funding summit was held at 5501 N. Kedzie. The Summit was sponsored by the Bezos Scholarship Program of the Aspen Institute, and the following groups were involved: Mikva Challenge, . . .
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Retired Chicago teachers at Illinois inauguration
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Secretary of State Jesse White, State Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka, and Treasurer Dan Rutherford were sworn in on January 8, 2011 at the . . .
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Protests at December 2007 Board of Education meeting
The December meeting of the Chicago Board of Education was tumultuous, considering that the holiday season and holiday spirit were supposed to reign.
Rufus Williams, Chicago Board of Education President, called the meeting to . . .
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October 24, 2007 Chicago Board of Education meeting continues orgy of charter expansion while sabotage of regular public schools becomes more evident
There were 88 people signed up to speak at the October 24, 2007, meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. Although the October meeting of the Chicago school board has been devoted to praising charter . . .
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July 27, 2007... Chicago Board of Education criticized for multiple problmes
The July 27, 2007, Chicago Board of Education meeting started with a lengthy time spent lauding high-ranking Board Employees, including at least 100 principals. They all give thanks so that the session part is like . . .
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Report on the public participation part of the April 25, 2007 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education
The April 25, 2007 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education saw as its first speaker Madeleine Maraldi speaking in favor of the Academy of Urban School Leadership (AUSL). She told how wonderful they were . . .
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Report on the public participation part of the May 23, 2007 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education
The Board started its May 23, 2007, meeting by honoring current astronaut Higginbotham (an alumna from Whitney Young) and citing over a hundred students who had full scholarships to four-year universities, seven students who had . . .
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