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The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill–Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn and New York City's United Federation of Teachers. It began with a one day walkout in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
The Strike That Changed New York is a history book about the New York City teachers' strike of 1968 written by Jerald Podair and published by the Yale University Press in 2004. Further reading [ edit ]
1966 New York City transit strike; Texas farm workers' strike; St. John's University strike of 1966–67; 1967 2,870,000 1967 US Railroad strike; 1967 US truckers strike; November 1967 General Motors strike; 1967 Caterpillar strike; September 1967 General Motors strike; 1968 2,649,000 New York City Teacher's Strike of 1968; Florida statewide ...
The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 closed down almost all New York City schools for 36 days. Perhaps Shanker is best known for opposing community-control leaders in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district of New York City, which led to the 1968 strike after white teachers were dismissed from the school district by the recently appointed ...
Since its passage, the Taylor Law has been cited in preventing public employee strikes. However, public employees have struck since the introduction of the law: The United Federation of Teachers struck the New York City schools in 1968, for which Albert Shanker and other union leaders were jailed for two weeks the following year. Teachers ...
National Education Union (NEU) members from 32 sixth form colleges resume their strike action over not receiving a 5.5 per cent pay reward offered to teachers at other types of school. Strikes at ...
1968 New York City teachers' strike; 1968 NFL strike/lockout; 1968 Polish political crisis; D. Delano grape strike; E. Emporium Capwell Company v. Western Addition; F.