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Stossel said that the teachers' unions "can pay for expensive rallies at 'the world's most famous arena' because every teacher in a unionized district like New York must give up some of his salary to the union. Even teachers who don't like the union, teachers who believe in school choice, and teachers who could make more on the open market must ...
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is the second largest teacher's labor union in America (the largest being the National Education Association). The union was founded in Chicago. John Dewey and Margaret Haley were founders. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Driven by pressure from teacher organizing, by the 1970s the NEA transformed from an education advocacy organization to a rank-and-file union. In the decades since, the association has continued to represent organized teachers and other school workers in collective bargaining and to lobby for progressive education policy. [ 8 ]
Headquarters of the NUT at Hamilton House. The NUT was established at a meeting at King's College London on 25 June 1870 as the National Union of Elementary Teachers (NUET) to represent all school teachers in England and Wales combining a number of local teacher associations which had formed across the country following the Elementary Education Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75). [4]
Union membership had been declining in the US since 1954, and since 1967, as union membership rates decreased, middle class the middle class share of aggregate income shrank correspondingly. [57] In 2007, the labor department reported the first increase in union memberships in 25 years and the largest increase since 1979.
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools. As of 2005, there were about 118,000 in-service teachers and nearly 30,000 [2] paraprofessional educators in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members. In October 2007, 28,280 home day care providers voted to join ...
The union argued that congestion pricing would worsen pollution and harm children. [13] Mulgrew also said that the congestion pricing plan would harm teachers who "are facing dramatically rising commuting costs, and all for a traffic reduction plan whose potential effects on air quality and other issues were never seriously examined."
National Tertiary Education Union; Nebraska State Education Association; Nevada State Education Association; Newark Teachers Association; NEA-New Hampshire; New Jersey Education Association; NEA-New Mexico; New South Wales Teachers Federation; New York City Teachers Union (1916–1964), also "Teachers Union" and "TU" New York State United Teachers