(Chicago Tribune)—A group of dissenting educators was challenging Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates and her squad in a union election Friday.
The opposition slate argues that the current leadership’s bullish nature doesn’t allow for dissenting voices, lacks financial transparency and has shed union allies. Davis Gates’ opponent for president, Erika Meza, a 25-year veteran teacher from the Southeast Side, is unhappy with what CTU has come to symbolize.
“There’s a lack of solidarity right now. We want to bring that back,” Meza said in an interview with the Tribune. “We need to make this a decision for the whole union.”
This election is about more than the two parties within the union. It’s about CTU’s priorities and values at a time when polling shows its popularity across the city has declined. And questions about representation and race have emerged as a subtext…
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