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In 1941, under pressure from the AFL, the union ejected three local unions in New York City and Philadelphia (including its prominent early member, the New York City Teachers Union, AFT Local 5) for being communist-dominated. The charter revocations represented nearly a third of the union's national membership. [8]
According to NEA's Department of Labor records since 2005, when membership classifications were first reported, the majority of the union's membership are "active professional" members, having fallen only slightly from 74% to the current 71%. The second largest category have been "active education support professional" members, with about 15%.
Over 2,000 teachers joined AAE during their first year of operation, and membership doubled the following year. [ 6 ] While recruiting members directly through word-of-mouth, mailings, and at teacher conferences and new teacher orientations across the country, AAE has partnered with pre-existing state-based non-union educator associations in ...
In just ten years, membership shot up from 1,400 members to nearly 10,000. After this growth, the union demanded that basic rights and benefits, which had been enjoyed by teachers for years, should finally be extended to classified employees from the state government.
After passage of a collective bargaining law for public employees, it evolved into a pro-active teachers union and in 1972 changed its name to the Wisconsin Education Association Council. Later, WEAC expanded its membership to education support staff, as well as UW, technical college and State of Wisconsin education and information ...
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The union risked paying a high price for its defiance. New York State Commissioner of Education James E. Allen Jr. (1911–1971) supported Supt. Gross by threatening to cancel the licenses of striking teachers. In addition, the union did not have a strike fund at its disposal to withstand a lengthy walkout.
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