We felt like the system was being sabotaged by the people who were in charge of it, and the union was the one institution that had both the interest and the ability to do something about that. Widely known as the firebrand counterpart to wonky union head Jesse Sharkey and viewed by some as at least as powerful among the rank and file this former CPS teacher gained a reputation for backing down to no one, not even Mayor Lightfoot, who reportedly resorted to barring her from final negotiations. Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates speaks as the CTU and the local school council held a news conference on Sept. 28, 2021, outside Jensen Elementary School in North Lawndale. Stacy Davis Gatesis the Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union and the Executive Vice President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers. From 1969 to 1987, CTU staged nine walkouts, according to the Chicago Tribune. But they had an air of choreography, she says, of an outcome predetermined before anyone even spoke. Accessed June 01, 2020. Column: Surprised by CTUs Venezuela Visit? to promote racial, economic and social justice in order to achieve educational justice and build community and labor coalitions to achieve that objective. [15] The 2012 strike also proved difficult for President Barack Obama during that years presidential campaign; it pitted labor unions, whose support he needed, against Emanuel, Obamas former White House Chief of Staff and a top fundraiser. A native of South Bend, Indiana, Gates carried her criminal defense lawyer dreams to St. Marys College, where she declared a major in English. At the national level, Christel has worked on the PSRP Professional Problems Committee for the American Federation of Teachers and was a member of its Summer Organizing Institute in Houston, Texas. Email Monica Trevino at Mtrevino@ift-aft.org. You need to run for public office. [42], In its Form 990 disclosure for July 2017 to June 2018, the Chicago Teachers Union had total revenue of $28 million and total expenses of $30 million, resulting in a net loss of approximately $2 million. These are very difficult human conditions that were trying to make sense of, she says. The Chicago Teachers Union has some 20,000 teacher and clinician members. West Ridge YMCA receives $3.75 million in U.S. funds for renovations, possible reopening U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky helped secure funds for the High Ridge YMCA, which is now being used to house migrants, two years after the facility was closed to the public. Teachers strikes are not new to this city. I feel privileged to be in this space that they struggled to dream of, against every imaginable odd., Grandmother Laura passed away when Gates was in college. 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. In 2017, Davis Gates was elected chair of United Working Families, an independent political organization for working class people and movements. All Rights Reserved. Compensation for top executives and Board members ranged from $120,000 to $330,000. [1] American Federation of Teachers, To Form a More Perfect Union. Campbell, Alexia Fernndez, The 11-day teachers strike in Chicago paid off, Vox, November 01, 2019. As a rank-and-file member, she was active in the charter outreach committee, clinicians steering committee and the CTU Latino Caucus policy committee. Im not going on your field trip because its not fair.. [39] The World Socialist Web Site has called Sharkey a leading member of the International Socialist Organization. [40] Sharkey lives in a $1.5 million home, and sends his own children to magnet and selective enrollment schools. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government, and challenge school privatizers and union busters. Your messaging is atrocious. It turned me upside down., In 2005, in Gatess second year teaching at Englewood High, CPS announced the school would close. South Side of Chicago . Mr. Potter has been an education activist since he led a student walkout at his high school, Whitney Young, in 1995 to push for equitable funding for schools in Illinois. And in this moment I really and truly feel accountable for their sacrifice. I was angry. While the CTU mission is, ostensibly, to improve public education, most of the identified purposes of the CTU are related to improving compensation and protecting the job security of union members, as well as growing the union. It was all I could do to refrain from leaping up from my desk at work and cheering. Chicago Teachers Union Foundation, Our History. [18], In addition to member-oriented benefits, the CTU also expanded its list of demands during the 2019 teacher strike to include a broader political goal: access to affordable housing. Sharkey was first elected vice president in 2010, when Karen Lewis was elected CTUs president. Ms. 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. They attend a public school on the South Side. [7], The Chicago Teacher Federation (CTF), a predecessor to the Chicago Teachers Union, was formed in 1897, largely to improve the status and compensation of teachers. [13]. (That didnt rattle Lewis, who years later told a crowd gathered at the Hideout for an event, I know bad words, too. The air crackled with applause. CPS has had four CEOs in the past seven years, including twoBarbara Byrd-Bennett and Forrest Claypoolwho left in disgrace. She shut that down pretty quickly., Kimbrough remembers Gates and Potter, Englewood Highs debate coach at the time, playing in those basketball games. It was a tough year, she says. Yet they remain a part of Gates. Accessed June 02, 2020. The teacher alleged that she was being forced to subsidize CTUs speech, and this was a violation of her own first amendment rights. The problems are complex. I see 10, 20, 30, 45, 100 little brown girls that look just like her. Your visits to the show are always one of my favorite features but today (Ben Jarovsky 06/27/18), you burned down the house. There are those who assertin letters to the editor, in editorials, in op-eds, on Twitter, from podiumsthat the CTUs fights actively harm children and families in Chicago. Chicago Teachers Union, Press Release: STRIKE! The U.S. Department of Education said that CTUs lawsuit was nothing more than political posturing for a headline. [21], In May 2020, the Chicago Teachers Union was sued by a Chicago teacher who was being forced to pay CTU dues despite crossing the picket line during the 2019 strike and withdrawing from CTU membership. She made it OK to be powerful, curious, and vulnerable all at the same time.. It was a lot of things, Sharkey says about not seeking reelection. Its a high bar. However, due to the Loeb Rule, the Chicago Board of Education fired dozens of participating teachers. A union member made it for her. 1969: Two-day strike results in salary increases, teacher aides, and class size maximum. She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. (Lewis died in 2021.) Accessed June 02, 2020. By the time I got to meet these kids, something would have already happened. So she set her sights upstream: Grab them before theyre thrown into the water, to paraphrase Desmond Tutu, rather than standing downstream to keep pulling them out. Elizabeth Warren, a presidential candidate at the time, joined teachers on the picket line on a blustery October morning. STACY DAVIS GATES, DELEGATE. Instability has been a "hallmark" of CPS for decades, Davis Gates asserts, and, as she recalls, no one was asking about stability when Mayor Rahm Emanuel or former CPS chief Arne Duncan who. As a 19-year-old, she says, it wasnt clear to me that injustices are already embedded into our school communitieslarger societal deficits, disinvestments., After college, Gates moved to Chicago, a city that had beckoned and shaped her elders. Stacy Davis Gates was elected president of the Chicago Teachers Union by members on Friday. Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago In the fall of 2019, she helped to lead a 15-day strike and to negotiate an historic contract that provides for smaller class sizes, ensures a nurse and social worker in every Chicago public school, secures sanctuary protections for immigrant families, and supports students and families experiencing homelessness. We sat at a table debating ventilation during an airborne pandemic. 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. It felt like we were set up to take this fall because there were few investments, few supports, and timetables for achievement that they knew we couldnt meet. 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. Accessed June 02, 2020. A native of Chicagos West Side, Christel was raised by a single mother who retired as a school clerk. We dont win half the things we achieved in 2019 without Stacy, says Jackson Potter, the unions former staff coordinator. 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: 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; 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; 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; 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; to maintain a relationship of mutual assistance and cooperation with organized labor; 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. We are in love with humanity at this union. Whenever I see our sister, you know who I see? Stamps called out. When you work on a team, when youre doing coalition work, its important for your team to understand the dynamics of gender and race because those things do impact the institution you lead as well. (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. I think about the lessons I got as a kid: You have to be twice as good to get half as much. Shes on a one-woman kamikaze mission to destroy our public schools. She also called Lightfoot micromanaging and a bad boss in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and told the New York Times: She does not know how to play well with others., But beneath the tensionindeed, fueling the tensionis a fundamental disagreement over policy. Chicago Teachers Union, Officers. And she's not about to let anyone. Press Inquires: She has raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters, most prominently Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his rubber-stamp City Council in 2015.Ms. Stacy Davis Gates Won't Back Down The Chicago Teachers Union's heir apparent sees herself as a righteous champion of not just educators but of students. 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. The gifted students were invited on a field trip to Philadelphia to see the Liberty Bell and other historic landmarks. Stacy Davis Gates Stacy Davis Gates is vice president of the 28,000-member Chicago Teachers Union and a mother of three children in Chicago's public schools. Stacy Davis Gates is the President of the Chicago Teachers Union. By her second semester of teaching, Gates started looking for ways to make inroads with her students that had little to do with curriculum. We got next because theres a Stacy Gates.. Revenue: $27,878,897 1973: Two strikes, of 12 and 11 days, yield improved salary, benefits, preparation time, supplies, and class sizes. Her paternal grandfather left Mississippi to work at a factory here, then left that job for one at a steel mill in Gary before eventually ending up at the Studebaker plant in South Bend, where he put down roots. After 12 years as one of the primary faces of the Chicago Teachers Union, Jesse Sharkey is returning to the classroom. In 2017, Ms. Davis Gates was elected Chair of United Working Families, an independent political organization by and for working class people and our movements. Accessed June 02, 2020. Stacy Davis Gates EDITOR'S NOTE, OCTOBER 30, 2019: The profile below was first published on August 2, 2019. Konkol, Mark, CTU Boss Talks Like Working Man, Lives Like Wealthiest 1 Percent, Patch Chicago, August 27, 2019. After her twelve-year career as a classroom educator, Stacy married her political ambitions with her passion for educational advocacy and joined the revitalized Chicago Teachers Union. And there was always a segment of my class that was disconnected, that didnt want to hear it or didnt engage fully.. [3]. The Chicago Teachers Union voted to go on strike on Oct. 17. Prior to that, she served as the unions Political and Legislative Director. But she didnt play any games. The impact of historical, generational disinvestment on the South Side and West Side of the city is difficult for people who are experiencing it to challenge, because its every day and it covers all facets of their existence. [1] Law, Justin, The Courts vs. After the Chicago Teachers Union achieved the power to collectively bargain, CTU teachers went on strike nine times in twenty years, with four strikes in the first seven years. Salary Breakdown (2019) She didnt have any notes with her onstage. I aint said live yet. Secretary DeVos had declined to waive a requirement that schools revise special education plans known as Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) or 504 plans and the Chicago Public Schools special education office required teachers and other staff to meet with each special education student to develop a remote learning plan. They would have you to believe that Black lives, queer lives dont matter in this country. The union made a push for affordable housing for students and teachers to be written into their contract, along with sanctuary protection for immigrantsunprecedented demands. Stephanie Simon and James B. Kelleher, Analysis: Striking Chicago teachers take on national education reform, Reuters, September 10, 2012. Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates was elected president of the organization Friday, after a race against two other candidates vying to take the place of outgoing president Jesse Sharkey. 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. I remember spending a lot of time in preparation for classesgetting primary sources together, getting supporting documentation together, making connections through newspaper articles and periodicals that related back to the historical thing I was teaching. So we got next. Because focusing on the actual context and the thing? Chicago Teachers Union, Website. I think thats an achievement, that we are all free to have differing thought processes on anything, and that women have voice in a city as dynamic as Chicago. Learn more about how easy it is to take the next step and join the IFT! She showed up to cheer on the football team on Friday nights. And now, after CTU president Jesse Sharkey announced in February that he wouldnt seek reelection, she is primed to take over the top slot at what is arguably the nations most powerful teachers union. A 1987 strike lasted a record 19 school days. [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. Key Data. I was made to, she says, by my parents. They werent about to let her miss the Liberty Bellor disobey the principal. The Chicago Teachers Union has elected a new president: Stacy Davis Gates. Simply put,the school districts budget is being balanced on the backs ofschoolchildren, senior citizens, and public employees.MayorEmanuel does not have a budget crisis he has a prioritycrisis. Op-Ed by Stacy Davis-Gates August 22, 2013 (Sun Times), I heard you on Progressive Talk Rado yesterday youre a WINNER and a KEEPER! Davis-Gates will be moving up from her position as vice president when . This outcome led the CFT to prioritize collective bargaining rights as a primary goal. She was actually in sixth grade, Gates later clarifies. The Chicago Teachers Union has elected a new president: Stacy Davis Gates. In the absence of a union endorsement, two senior CTU leaders, Jesse Sharkey and Stacy Davis Gates, endorsed the Vermont Senator. Four years later, after undergoing brain surgery, she retired, and Sharkey, her vice president, took over. It was the final day of Black History Month and Stacy Davis Gates needed to be in three places at once. Yet both of these women overcame so much to put their children in a positionto put me in a positionto succeed. Animosity between the CTU and the mayor, who controls the citys schools, often dominates the discourse around public education in Chicago. I liked the ability to free someone from something that was unfair or unjust.. Illinois law limits what unions can include as part of a contract negotiation. Stacy Davis Gates has served as the Political and Legislative Director for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) for the past six years. In fact, it irks her that theres an expectation that she and Lightfoot should get along because theyre both Black women. Lewis feuded with Emanuel, dubbing him the murder mayor and Mayor 1 Percent. Emanuel, for his part, famously barked Fuck you, Lewis during a private meeting in 2011. Members First is running, in part, on the belief that the union needs to have a better relationship with city officials. Johnson was paid a $103,000 salary by CTU, in addition to his $85,000 salary as a Cook County Commissioner. The UIC administration is offering raises of 17% over four years, averaging 4.25% per year, the union said. Lauren FitzPatrick and Nader Issa, Chicago Teachers Union Inc.: How the clout-heavy labor group spends its money, Chicago Sun-Times, January 17, 2020. In 2020, the city was running an $838 million budget deficit, and Chicagos school system bonds have been rated below investment-grade in recent years. Prior to that, she was the CTUs political and legislative director. She has very fine antennae and a finely honed sense of justice about whats right and fair, Sharkey says. But, she argues, historical wrongs arent quickly righted. I am not a union member nor am I a teacher but if you knocked on my door with that speech, I would start paying Chicago Teachers Union dues. Every problem in societyhunger, domestic violence, povertyit walks into your doors, doesnt it? Sanders said to the crowd gathered inside CTU headquarters. Im disappointed that in 2022 we still believe that Black people are a monolith.. Day, Marcus, The International Socialist Organization backs Mayor Emanuels attack on Chicago teachers, World Socialist Web Site, February 18, 2016. In January, shortly after teachers and students returned to their classrooms, students staged a massive walkout to protest a lack of safety mitigations during a record-setting surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. And it was an early glimpse at the way some kids are placed on a path to succeed, while others are left behind. Occupation: Vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union. I dont intend to lose, Gates tells me. She played in student-staff basketball games. So have their teachers. When asked about her political aspirations earlier this month on "Chicago Tonight," Davis Gates didn't rule it out flat, and on Tuesday said that she remains focused on her two current jobs: Being a mom to three CPS students, and serving union members in her role with CTU. In what era has it ever been ethical, moral or vogue to close schools in poor, under-resourced blackcommunities and fire experienced, dedicated school personnel,and then try to justify those decisions by claiming budgetshortfalls on unwieldy retiree pay..Chicagos Mayor RahmEmanuel has abdicated his responsibility as chief executive of thecity and made it a practice to scapegoat his wrong-headedpolicies on the most vulnerable populations in the city. Accessed June 01, 2020. When the group first challenged the unions current administration three years ago, Sharkey won reelection handily, with two-thirds of the vote. Leone, Hannah, Chicago teacher who crossed the picket line during the strike is now suing the teachers union over dues payments, Chicago Tribune, May 07, 2020. Year: 2016: Full Name: What am I missing? Ive adopted the same two questions. I feel real accountable for unpacking that. Stacy Gates Davis L in 2016 was employed in Chicago Teachers Union and had annual salary of $112,422 according to public records. Accessed June 02, 2020. This salary is 15 percent lower than average and 20 percent lower than median salary in Chicago Teachers Union. And the classroom teacher is tasked with making sense of it. Accessed June 01, 2020. I tell people all the time Im only one generation separated from a cotton field, Gates says. Garcia lost. When the CTU had the city nailed to the wall during last years 11-day-long strike, the unions No. It felt like people were still begging American institutions to see our humanity. Including the mayor. This is not like a couple of angry Black women.. We dont walk backwards and pretend that yesterday was better than what we can imagine tomorrow to be. But it was an early taste, she says, of airing a grievance, of pushing back on behalf of those who arent in the room. Davis Gates has also spearheaded successful statewide legislative campaigns to pass the strongest charter school accountability measures in the country, to restore the bargaining rights of Chicago Public Schools employees, and to fully fund public education by ending tax loopholes for the 1%. [10], In 1917, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the Loeb Rule was constitutional, and the CFT and Chicago Board of Education reached a settlement in which the fired teachers were rehired and CFT disaffiliated itself from other labor unions. 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. 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. Bellware, Kim, Chicago teachers say they will go on strike. We see our schools closed and defunded. From milquetoast to militant is how Jane F. McAlevey described the unions evolution in her 2016 book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. She graduated from John Marshall High School and proudly serves on the schools alumni committee. WTTW, Chicago Teachers Union Bargaining Summary as of 10/29/2019. Accessed June 02, 2020. 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. 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Advertisement. Szalinski, Ben, The new contract continues a moratorium on school closings despite plummeting student enrollment, Illinois Policy, November 22, 2019. It makes you angry. Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Teachers Federation records 1864-1968. Chicago Teachers Union, On the CTU Sale of Fewkes Tower, April 30, 2015. This salary is 12 percent lower than average and 18 percent lower than median salary in Chicago Teachers Union. Accessed June 01, 2020. [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. They take away the things we need the most in order to survive. In 2020, the city was running an $838 million budget deficit, and Chicago's school system bonds have been rated below investment-grade in recent years. Before she was elected CTU president in 2022, Davis Gates served four years as vice president of the union. April 13, 2020, 10:37 pm. So I want to say this: We are fighters at this union. 2023 Chicago Teachers Union. Then I started thinking that would put me on the wrong end of the spectrum of justice, she says. To submit a correction for our . She attended Saint Marys College, the University of Notre Dame, and Concordia University. It had to do with finding human connections., Kimbrough was in Gatess first African American history class. We may not like it, but it just makes sense right now. The fact that you have to fight for these things, it feels like punishment. But she has no choice, she says. Then, two factions of CTU members emerged with plans to oust her and the Caucus of Rank-and-file . Weve got this amazing band program. And theyd close it anyway. Ms. Stacy Davis Gates is the Political and Legislative Director of the Chicago Teachers Union AFT Local 1. Davis Gates lives on the South Side of Chicago with her husband and three children. Min. 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