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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]
However, the Chicago Board of Education, led by Jacob Loeb, had recently passed a rule against teacher unions: [5] Membership by teachers in labor unions or in organizations of teachers affiliated with a trade union or a federation or association of trade unions, as well as teachers' organizations which have officers, business agents, or other ...
WEAC membership includes: [1] Teachers, counselors and library media specialists in Wisconsin public K-12 schools. Education support professionals—secretaries, teacher aides, bus drivers, custodians, cooks—employed in public K-12 schools. Faculty and support staff in the Wisconsin Technical College System. Active retired members.
MEA was founded in 1852 as the Michigan State Teachers Association, five years before the National Education Association was organized, becoming the Michigan Education Association in 1926. [ 6 ] In 1937 the MEA's governing body, the Representative Assembly, authorized the development of a group hospitalization program. [ 7 ]
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%.
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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 ...