CHICAGO (WLS) -- Just four hours after CPS CEO Forrest Claypool said on Monday that there may be thousands of teacher layoffs in the second semester of the school year, the Chicago Teacher's Union ...

The Chicago teachers' strike may seem at first glimpse as an anomaly: a partisan Democratic mayor taking on a powerful public employees union. Organized labor has historically been one of the ...

The "framework" for a deal between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union is there, now the details need to be filled in so kids can get back to school. Officials for CPS and CTU began ...

Some 26,000 teachers are reportedly close to coming back to work in Chicago. Negotiations are on hold today, for the Jewish New Year, but word is that the strike may soon end with the fine details ...

Most readers of this journal will have read accounts of the spirited strike by Chicago's public school teachers in September and will have learned that the generally accepted view is that the strike ...

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates is bringing her militant agenda to 200 more school districts as president ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. City officials vowed to keep hundreds of thousands of ...

Before the Chicago teachers strike started last month, the president of the union said he told his sons there was a possibility he could be arrested for leading what could be ruled an illegal walkout.

The week-long teachers’ strike in Chicago has drawn national attention because it affects 350,000 children and pits two Democratic forces against each other. But it also represents a broader struggle ...

Teachers in Chicago are on strike for a fourth school day today. The school district there is huge. It serves more than 300,000 students. Sarah Karp from member station WBEZ reports that while ...