With No Contract Deal by Deadline in Chicago, Teachers Will Strike | American Federation of Teachers New Jersey, AFL-CIO

By MONICA DAVEY

CTU — Sitthixay Ditthavong/Associated Press Members of the Chicago Teachers Union distributed strike signs as the deadline approached.

CHICAGO — Union leaders for this city’s public schoolteachers said that they would strike on Monday morning after negotiations ended late Sunday with no contract agreement between the union and the nation’s third largest school system, which have been locked for months in a dispute over wages, job security and teacher evaluations.

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