CPS says 'miscellaneous' school workers shouldn't be allowed to unionize

[Munu]

Chicago Public Schools that is.
Historical sidelight -- When teachers first unionized the same was said about teachers.

CPS says ‘miscellaneous’ school workers shouldn’t be allowed to unionize
Chicago Tribune

Chicago Public Schools has formally challenged the Service Employees International Union’s petition to represent 1,600 miscellaneous workers — stalling the union’s push to increase membership across the district.

SEIU Local 73 filed the representation petition with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board on Nov. 10. The workers cover a wide range of support roles, including tutors and recess monitors, in Chicago’s public schools. The union argues they are sometimes misclassified, filling roles that unionized support staff also perform, but for less pay and no benefits.

An “overwhelming majority” of those workers want to join SEIU, according to the union.

But in objections filed Christmas Eve, CPS said the union petition should be tossed out, arguing the workers are “short-term” employees not entitled to union representation under state law.

Miscellaneous workers don’t have a “reasonable expectation that he or she will remain in that position at any given time,” the district argued. “By definition, these positions are filled on a ‘temporary,’ ‘hourly,’ and ‘part-time’ basis.”

Local 73 argues that many of the miscellaneous workers have worked in the district for years despite being classified as “temporary” and said it’s confident it will prevail before the state educational labor board.

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[GPV]

1. "BS!" says this unionized miscellaneous school worker from ME.