Attorneys review Chicago Teachers Union audits following congressional request

(The Center Square) – The Chicago Teachers Union says it has complied with a U.S. House committee’s request to release financial audits, but attorneys challenging the union in court say they are still reviewing the documents.

On Oct. 8, 2024, the Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit in Cook County circuit court on behalf of four CTU members after they said the union failed to produce the audits for four years.

Last November, the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce sent a letter to CTU President Stacy Davis Gates, asking the union to produce audits from 2019 to 2024.

CTU said it received notice that the Department of Labor was launching a compliance audit program on Jan. 16, the same day the union said it complied with the House committee’s request.

Ángel Valencia, Senior Counsel for the Liberty Justice Center, said attorneys are reviewing the audits for union members who asked for them.

“The information that the union has produced in the past has just been a lot of very short, self-serving, self-drafted summarie...