In this episode, Fran Spielman interviews Stacy Davis Gates, President of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), discussing the recently approved teachers' contract. The civil war between the Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU has fractured Mayor Brandon Johnson’s progressive union coalition continues—so much so that it endangers Johnson’s political future. It centers around CTU President Stacy Davis Gates failed attempt to have the CTU take over classroom assistant jobs held by SEIU Local 73.