More bad news for the CTU.
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The Department of Labor is now investigating CTU finances.
We hope Stacy and Jackson have good coping skills.
Both will need them. https://t.co/Mzj5gUNsN0
The powerful Chicago Teachers Union that regularly slams the Trump administration received word on Thursday that its finances are being investigated by a federal agency on top of an already announced inquiry by a Republican-led U.S. House committee.
CTU leaders told WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times that they received a letter from the U.S. Department of Labor informing the union of an audit of its annual financial report.
The letter did not specify what prompted the audit, but it listed several possible reasons that can prompt a review, including not filing on time, document discrepancies or complaints from union members. The letter also said some unions are randomly selected. The Labor Department conducts several hundreds of these audits every year.
But CTU officials said the timing is suspicious. The letter arrived one day before the CTU was due to submit five years of audits and other financial documents to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in response to a demand from the committee to examine the union’s audits. Committee members said they wanted to determine if “reforms” were needed to the federal law that requires unions to submit financial information to the Labor Department.more:
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As long as they actually do something with the information. Sitting on all the info of those who committed crimes is not helping people's confidence in the administration. Heads need to fall!