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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Talks between the Chicago Teachers Union and the mayor on a plan to reopen the third-largest U.S. school district amid the pandemic have broken off after the union rejected terms of her last, best and final offer, the two sides said on Friday.
The union representing 28,000 public school educators in the Chicago Public Schools district said Mayor Lori Lightfoot and district leaders have walked away from the bargaining table after submitting their latest proposal.
In a statement, the teachers union criticized terms of the mayor s plan that the union said would require a suspension of in-person learning district-wide only if COVID-19 outbreaks occur in half of Chicago s public school sites at the same time.
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Chicago orders some teachers to resume in-person classes next week, setting up showdown with union
Chicago may be closer to a teacher strike after Chicago Public Schools ordered some teachers back to work in person Monday.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools said they had made their “last, best, and final offer” after a slew of meetings with union representatives. The Chicago Teachers Union responded that the leaders had “walked away from the bargain table again.”
CPS and the City of Chicago have been negotiating with the teachers union for weeks about returning to in-person learning during the pandemic. The union has maintained it is not yet safe.