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11 sie 2021 · In Tamika Graham v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago and Health Care Service Corporation, 8 F.4th 625 (7th Cir. 2021), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit addressed significant issues related to employment discrimination, ERISA preemption, and state wage-payment laws. The case revolves around Tamika Graham, a ...
The Seventh Circuit certified, to the Supreme Court of Illinois, the question of whether the School Code (105 ILCS 5/34-18 (31)), provides that Chicago tenured teachers have a right to be rehired after an economic layoff and whether they have a right to certain procedures during rehiring.
22 wrz 2021 · The Chicago Teachers Union and a class of teachers (collectively “CTU”) filed suit against the Board alleging that the layoffs discriminated against African American teachers and paraprofessionals in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1991, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq.
Plaintiffs Donald J. Garrett Jr., Robert Green, and Vivonell Brown, Jr., three African American tenured teachers affected by the turnarounds, and the Chicago Teachers Union, Local 1 (“CTU”) filed suit against the Board, alleging that the Board’s decision to turn around these ten schools was racially discriminatory.
Chicago Public Schools, employed by the Board of Education of the City of Chicago. In 2017, Troesch and Nkemdi each signed a written agreement to join the Chicago Teachers Union, and that agreement authorized the Board to deduct union dues from their paychecks (referred to as the “dues checkoff” agreement). By signing that document, Troesch
15 gru 2021 · The cases settled are Chicago Teachers Union et al. v. The Board of Education of the City of Chicago (Case Nos. 12-cv-10311 and 15-cv-8149), both pending in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
13 wrz 2022 · The lawyers who brought the lawsuit, including the mother of a high-ranking Chicago Teachers Union official, will receive $4 million from the deal. The settlement resolves two lawsuits, filed in 2012 and 2015, brought by the CTU against the Chicago Board of Education and the city.
