(The New York Sun)—Seven more of the Chicago Teachers Union’s members are joining an effort to get the union to release its financial audits—prompting serious concerns about why the union bosses are resisting their own bylaws.
The additional members are joining an effort that started in October when the Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Teachers Union on behalf of four of the union’s dues-paying members who are demanding to know where their money is going—after several years of being kept in the dark.
The union’s own legally binding bylaws state that “each year, the Financial Secretary shall furnish an audited report.” Yet the CTU hasn’t produced any such audit in the past four years, the Liberty Justice Center says.
“The Chicago Teachers’ Union is failing its 25,000 members—and millions of Chicago taxpayers—by withholding years of legally required audits,” the Liberty Justice Center’s educational freedom attorney, Dean McGee, said in a statement. “If CTU has nothing to hide, why not just produce the audits?”
The full article is available here from the New York Sun.