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By Doug Cunningham

Teachers at three Chicago area charter schools have decided to form a union. They filed authorization cards with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board to form teacher’s unions at Wrightwood, Northtown Academy and Ralph Ellison schools. The teachers are calling on school officials to promptly recognize the union and begin bargaining for a first contract. The union will be the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers And Staff. That’s an affiliate of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and the national American Federation of Teachers. These teachers would be the first charter school teachers in Chicago to be unionized.