Case Update: A Cook County judge has denied the Chicago Teachers Union’s effort to shut down this case and has ordered discovery to move forward. Plaintiffs will now begin the process of uncovering whether CTU has met its obligations to provide full, unabridged financial disclosures to its members.
Case Background: On October 8, the Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of four Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) members, demanding that CTU produce an audit after failing to do so for four years.
Under CTU’s Constitution and Bylaws, Article VI, Section 1(d), the union is required to “furnish an audited report of the Union which shall be printed in the Union’s publication.” However, CTU has failed to meet this obligation since it published an audit only covering the first half of 2019.
“CTU members deserve to know where their money is going. After four years of silence, it’s time for transparency,” said plaintiff Phillip Weiss, who has been a CTU member since 1998. “This lawsuit isn’t just about us—it’s about the more than 25,000 educators across Chicago who rely on the union to uphold its commitments.”