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[msanthrope]

15. The school is PUBLIC. The corporation that is contracted by the government

to run the school is a non-governmental non-profit, per the Illinois laws overseeing charters.

Because the entity that hires the teachers is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, the teachers must organize their union under the auspices of the NLRB, not under the auspices of Illinois state law which only provides for teachers employed by governmental entities. The teachers CAN STILL ORGANIZE.

It makes sense because you are talking about two distinct entities--the school, and the contractor that runs it. The teachers are employed by the latter to service the former.

Think about it this way--if I contract an organization to provide food service to a public school, do the food service employees become government workers? No. Same goes for charter school teachers.