Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports that pushed by a Right-Wing Downstate Illinois Think Tank with a reputation for self-dealing for its boss, the radical right Republican majority on the U.S. House panel dealing with Workers’ issues is targeting the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU)/American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 1, for investigation. The pretext is implausible: Late filing of some Federal forms due to messy financial records under a prior Union President, which the Coronavirus Pandemic only worsened. And the Think Tank, the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI), is suing the CTU for even more records. The assault’s real aim is to intimidate one of the more outspoken anti-Trump Unions in the U.S. But the CTU is fighting back - and so are its allies, including the United Electrical Workers and the State’s heavily Democratic House Delegation. The investigations are about “our power and the fact that we use it for our students,” Union President Stacy Davis Gates, a Social Studies Teacher, said in a mass e-mail to all 30,000 CTU Members. In the e-mail, Gates wrote: “The billionaire forces behind groups like IPI and this current Congress have made it clear they want to terminate the Department of Labor, the Department of Education, Collective Bargaining Rights and public schooling altogether. We’re being investigated not because there is a ‘there, there.’ We’re being investigated because we make improving the education, communities and lives of our Black, Latine and largely low-income student body our first order of business. We stand in the way of the Anti-Worker, White Supremacist agenda of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation and their tentacles in Illinois.”

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