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The Chicago Teachers Federation played an active role in the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and retained their status as Local 1. In 1937, Local 1 battled New York's Local 5 over whether the AFT would remain in the American Federation of Labor (AFL) or join the newer and more inclusive Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). [ 12 ] (
National Teachers Association; National Tertiary Education Union; Nebraska State Education Association [1] Nevada State Education Association [1] Newark Teachers Association; NEA-New Hampshire [1] New Jersey Education Association [1] NEA-New Mexico [1] New South Wales Teachers Federation; New York City Teachers Union (1916–1964), also ...
John Clark Dore, a Boston teacher and principal, became Chicago's first school superintendent in 1854, when there were 34 teachers and 3,000 students. When he resigned in 1856, enrollment had doubled to 6,100, 46 new instructors had been hired, and four new schools (including the first high school) had been constructed. [ 2 ]
19th Assembly of Delegates of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, Sydney Town Hall, August 1970 The federation was established in 1952, with the merger of the International Federation of Secondary Teachers (FIPESO), the International Federation of Teachers' Associations (IFTA), and the World Organisation of the Teaching Profession (WOTP), the three main ...
30 January – The Federal Bank collapses, starting the Australian banking crisis of 1893. [1] 4 February – 1893 Brisbane flood devastates Queensland. [2] 14 June – Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia by Paddy Hannan and two others. Queensland is granted its Coat of Arms; Coolgardie and Esperance are both declared as towns
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 Chicago pension fund has provided benefits for public school teachers in the city since 1895. Ward said it has an 8% allocation to private equity and is dropping that back to 5%.
Margaret A. Haley (November 15, 1861 – January 5, 1939) was a teacher, unionist, and Georgist land value tax activist, [1] who was dubbed the "lady labor slugger". [2] Haley was the first business representative of the Chicago Teachers Federation and a pioneer leader in organizing schoolteachers.