Charter school named for slain union leader tries to stop teachers from forming union

[Hannah Bell]

In an ironic twist, the school which features the name of one of Chicago's most well-known union organizers is trying to stop the teachers from forming a union.

Recently, the teachers at the "Rudy Lozano Leadership Academy" voted to form a union at the school named after Rudy Lozano, a union organizer and immigrant activist who was murdered in the early 1980s. The Lozano Leadership Academy is a small charter school located near where Rudy Lozano was murdered in 1983.

But Juan Salgado, the director and "Chief Executive Officer" of the Institutio del Progresso Latino which oversees the charter school has taken the teachers to court because he does not want the charter school to be recognized with a union, according to the Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff or ACTS, which helps charter school teachers form a union.

Salgado employed a law firm which specializes in "union avoidance" and held meetings with teachers and filed a challenge with the National Labor Relations Board, according to ACTS.

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