The Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates voted today to suspend
the first teachers' strike in the Windy City since 1987 and the first educator
walkout in a major American city since the one in Detroit back in 2006. Classes will
resume tomorrow for the first time since September 7. Seven classroom days will now have be made up as a result of the strike.
“We are
teachers and we wanted to get back into the classroom,” says John
Robertson, a CTU delegate from Gunsaulus Elementary Scholastic Academy. “I think our
people have fought to get a good contract for our members.”
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Chicago Teachers Union members voted overwhelmingly this week to
approve a three-year contract, with the option of a fourth year, that
was hammered out amid a historic seven-day CTU strike. Now comes the
challenge of paying for the deal, which has so far largely played out as
a battle between the union and district on school closings. 
