The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has been put on notice after failing to complete financial audits to show how union members’ money has been spent over the past five years.
The House Education and Workforce Committee sent a letter to CTU President Stacy Davis Gates, noting the union has failed to provide members with complete financial audits since 2020, in violation of their own policy.
The letter shares, “The Committee is concerned that CTU has undertaken a half-decade long, concerted effort to deny its members the complete audit information to which they are entitled under the union’s by-laws…”
“By withholding complete financial audits from its members, CTU has failed to uphold the spirit of union transparency or comply with its own by-laws.”
“As such, the Committee is investigating this matter to better determine whether the [Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959] should be amended to strengthen its requirements so that union members have access to more robust and timely financial information.”
“Every dollar paid by workers should serve their interests, not those of a select few operating in the shadows.”
Under the leadership of President Stacy Davis Gates and Vice President Jackson Potter, the CTU has become the largest political spender in Chicago.
“A full annual audit requires the financial secretary to furnish an audited report published in the union’s newsletter and the Board of Trustees to obtain an annual audit and make it available for members for inspection,” according to Fox News.
The union has until December 8 to disclose the audit.