Chicago’s Lightfoot suggests teachers union behaves like a ‘political party’

She said the union will ultimately like to take over running the city government

Mayor Lori Lightfoot criticized the Chicago Teachers Union on Sunday following a tense battle over the reopening of city classrooms for in-person learning during the pandemic, according to a report.

Lightfoot, a Democrat, said her office has maintained peace with almost every single [organized labor] unit, except for the Fraternal Order of Police, and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), which she said has aspirations “akin to a political party.”

“When you have unions that have other aspirations beyond being a union, and maybe being something akin to a political party, then there’s always going to be conflict,” she said during an interview with the New York Times published on Sunday.

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