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● First charter school strike in U.S. history set to begin this week:
After a year of negotiations with management for their first contract since unionizing last spring, close to 50 teachers, paraprofessionals and teacher assistants at Passages Charter School are prepared to walk off the job Thursday morning if an agreement is not reached. It would be the first time teachers at a U.S. charter school ever went on strike.
The educators are members of the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff (ChiACTS), Local 4343 of the American Federation of Teachers, which represents roughly 1,000 educators at 32 charter schools in the city.
● More from the Labor Notes "how we're surviving right to work" series: Milwaukee teachers.
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