Teachers United: The Rise of New York State United TeachersThis book tells the story of the rise of New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), New York State's largest union. Using first-hand accounts by rank-and-file teachers as well as leaders, Dennis Gaffney documents how teachers, once underpaid and hopelessly divided, finally organized, lifting themselves from the underclass to the middle class to become a formidable grassroots political force able to defeat and elect U.S. senators. He describes how New York's teachers sparked the modern-day teachers' movement, and what key lessons other labor unions can learn from NYSUT's unity and success. Teachers United also shows how NYSUT has been a leader of educational reform, winning more money for education, creating smaller classes, raising academic standards, and training better teachers. |
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... Guild, the New York City union that was affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The office was located at Broadway and Fifth Avenue, across the street from the historic Flatiron Building. The guild office, though, had ...
... Guild, the New York City union that was affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The office was located at Broadway and Fifth Avenue, across the street from the historic Flatiron Building. The guild office, though, had ...
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... guild's office they were stepping into a thirty-seven-year-old stream of teacher labor unionism in New York City. The guild was descended from the Teachers Union (TU), the small band of New York City teachers who formed the city's first ...
... guild's office they were stepping into a thirty-seven-year-old stream of teacher labor unionism in New York City. The guild was descended from the Teachers Union (TU), the small band of New York City teachers who formed the city's first ...
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... Guild. In 1940, the AFT revoked the TU's charter and granted a new charter to the guild. By 1953, many of the guild's orig- inal members were in their fifties and sixties and had been fighting for teachers' rights for decades. Many ...
... Guild. In 1940, the AFT revoked the TU's charter and granted a new charter to the guild. By 1953, many of the guild's orig- inal members were in their fifties and sixties and had been fighting for teachers' rights for decades. Many ...
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... Guild meeting and listen to some very brilliant peo- ple expound on the state of the world,” Shanker said. “After three hours you'd leave edified with nothing done.”17 But during their first visit to the guild's office, Shanker, Sanders ...
... Guild meeting and listen to some very brilliant peo- ple expound on the state of the world,” Shanker said. “After three hours you'd leave edified with nothing done.”17 But during their first visit to the guild's office, Shanker, Sanders ...
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... Guild Bulletin, the union's newspaper. All three were put to work organizing their school, Astoria JHS. The teachers relished the task. Shanker, the most intellectual in the crew, used logic to persuade teachers tojoin the guild ...
... Guild Bulletin, the union's newspaper. All three were put to work organizing their school, Astoria JHS. The teachers relished the task. Shanker, the most intellectual in the crew, used logic to persuade teachers tojoin the guild ...
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Page 196 - States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.
Page 120 - We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old. For the Union makes us strong.
Page 196 - If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
Page 219 - Association states that the purpose and objects of the said corporation shall be "to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of education in the United States.
Page 97 - York, in convention assembled, believing that the best interests of every community are founded upon «ound and thorough elementary education, and that without unity of feeling and concert of action on the part of teachers, this can rarely, if ever, be attained, and further, that the true dignity of our profession calls for associated action and combined effort, do hereby agree to form ourselves into a Teachers' State Association, to be governed by the Constitution subjoined.
Page 35 - to make legislative proposals for protecting the public against the disruption of vital public services by illegal strikes, while at the same time protecting the rights of public employees.
Page 234 - Report of the New York State Commission on the Quality. Cost and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Page 145 - ... whenever the clock struck, those figures exercised most graceful movements. And everybody, the people and the judges said that yes, to accomplish a thing like that was most unbelievable. And the princess looked at the clock and then looked at the handsome young man, and she liked them both very much. And the judges were just about to pronounce their formal judgment, when a new competitor appeared, a low-brow fellow. He, too, carried something in his hand, but it was not a work of art, it was...