CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The Chicago Teachers Union is demanding more COVID-19 safety, testing, vaccination, and contact tracing in the schools, saying all have been a failure.
Members of the Chicago Teachers Union, among others, gathered at Jensen Elementary on the West Side, where, they said, students from 10 of 17 classrooms are in quarantine - 58 percent of the students - and testing is not happening.
This, after Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she was disappointed with the slow rollout of testing and contact tracing.
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"It has been a disaster. The mayor, herself, acknowledged the plan has not been working and then she turns around at the negotiating table to us yesterday with no proposals on how to improve it. So we need an agreement, we are getting fed up with it. We need a safety agreement. That is what our union is saying loud and clear," CTU President Jesse Sharkey said.
It was noted that a school like Jensen has a lot of students being raised by grandparents who are at risk. And it was suggested that less vaccinated black families are being neglected.
"Ten classrooms out of 17 have been quarantined already. We have to understand that our grandparents that are raising children in this community that could be contracting this virus and nobody is taking this serious. We need the mayor to pay attention," said Crystal Williams Hayes with the CTU.
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