Shanker, Albert

AFT Inventory Part I Records

dgolodner — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:06:07 -0400

Contains Series I, III, IV, VI.

Series I Presidents department, 1920-1964 4W-B-8(1-6), 4W-B-7(9)
Series III Executive Council, 1916-1980 4W-B-7(6-9)
Series IV Defunct Locals, 1916-1958 4W-B-7(3-6)
Series VI Old correspondence with locals, 1914-1940s 4W-B-7(1-2) 4W-B-6(9)

Papers consist of correspondence, ballots, proceedings from meetings, clippings, local finances, per capita reports, charter applications. Subjects include integration, federal works programs, loyalty oaths, academic freedom, federal aid to education, communist issues. read more »

Cincinnati Federation of Teachers Local 1560

dgolodner — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:01:38 -0500

The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers Collection contains information about this unique local of the American Federation of Teachers. The local reformed in 1964 as the Cincinnati Teachers Union and changed its name to the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers (CFT) in 1971 and immediately began petitioning for a collective bargaining election. By 1976 the CFT won the election and remained the bargaining union for teachers of Cincinnati. In 1979 Tom Mooney became president and took the union on a new course of bargaining reform for all public employees in the city as well as taking the local into new areas of education reform and teacher professionalism.

Dearborn Federation of Teachers Local 681 Records

drice — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:22:20 -0400

Part of the national American Federation of Teachers and statewide Michigan Federation of Teachers, the Dearborn Federation of Teachers, was chartered on February 28, 1945. Twenty years later, in1965, Michigan passed the Public Employee Relations Act; a law making organization and collective bargaining legal for public employees. Members of the union serve at four high schools, seven middle schools, 21 elementary schools, a community college and one early learning center within the city of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights.

The collection consists of materials related to the organization and activities of the Dearborn Federation of Teachers. The bulk of the collection is comprised of DFT subject files. The files cover topics such as the 1967 strike, the decline in enrollment that lead to surplus teacher layoffs, implementation of peer-review, the increase in the Arabic speaking population, and the schools’ efforts to increase bilingual education. The Organization Files series includes board and general meetings, contracts, elections, bargaining and negotiations, and some national conventions. The Fordson High series consists of materials from the high school, collected by John Fowler, reflecting his role in the school, DFT and in the Social Studies department, and includes the activities of students and other teachers.

AFT Educational Issues Department Records

scaloia — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:20:16 -0400

The American Federation of Teachers is a labor union representing primary and secondary school teachers, paraprofessionals, higher education faculty and professional staff, and nurses and other health care professionals. The AFT Educational Issues Department, originally the Task Force on Educational Issues, is the research and development arm of the union. The department tracks education policies from local, state and national bodies, conducts research and analysis on those policies, produces briefs and reports, conducts workshops, and assists local AFT affiliates on educational issues. A major initiative of the department is the Education Research & Dissemination program (ER&D). The program began in 1981 with a grant from the National Institute of Education. It is focused on professional development through the collection of a body of research on education issues and translation of that material to classroom applications. Teachers are able to access research and apply new techniques in their classrooms. The ER&D program explores topics such as instruction methods, critical thinking, behavior management, and student motivation. Projects include the Visiting Practitioner program and Thinking Mathematics. The Educational Issues Department also organizes the bi-annual QuEST (Quality Educational Standards in Teaching) Conference.

The AFT Education Issues Department Records contain correspondence and chronological files, meeting minutes, reports, manuscripts and drafts, annotated articles, reports, conference packets, press releases, newsletters, fliers, photographs, negatives, and VHS and audiocassette tapes. The records contain communications with and publications from many education-related organizations as well as granting institutions.

AFT Great Lakes Regional Office Records

scaloia — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 12:34:48 -0500

The American Federation of Teachers is a labor union representing primary and secondary school teachers, paraprofessionals, higher education faculty, professional staff, and nurses and other health care professionals. Regional offices fall under the auspices of the Department of Organizing and are responsible for organizing efforts and other assistance to local and state federations. The Great Lakes Region includes Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, West Virginia, and Indiana. The Great Lakes Region was once part of the Midwest Region, and records from that office are also included. The Midwest region included Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The records cover organizing projects, collective bargaining campaigns, field director and staff meeting notes and minutes, AFT Executive Council meeting packets, mergers between AFT state offices or locals and National Education Association affiliates, and national, regional, and local conferences. Audiovisual materials include VHS tapes, audiocassettes, photographs and negatives. Files from former Midwest Regional Director Mark Chaykin’s work in other areas of the country are also included.

AFT: Human Rights and Community Relations Records

dgolodner — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:04:52 -0400

The Human Rights and Community Relations Department of the American Federation of
Teachers was created by Vice President Richard Parrish October 2, 1966. Before the
official department was created it was a standing committee and then a permanent
committee with in the executive council. The department was created as an office in the
AFT that would be responsible for collecting and distributing information about the
government, education and community policies and programs dealing with civil and
human rights. The most important duty of the department is to guide the AFT in any
“involvement with or commitment to labor and other organizations concerned with civil
and human rights.”

Part One of the collection deals with the Racism in Education conference that the AFT sponsored throughout the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Other materials are general subject files and correspondence to and from the Civil Rights Department. Part Two of the collection pertains to black history, race relations and women’s rights on both national and local levels. The collection consists of AFT files as well as meeting and conference information. The department maintained a large section of subject files relating to civil and human rights in education.

Michigan Federation of Teachers Records

dgolodner — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:23:35 -0400

Parts 1 and 2 consist of correspondence, minutes, and reports. Subjects include Administrative Board meetings; American Federation of Teachers; conventions; Detroit Federation of Teachers; Executive Council meetings; Haven Hill conferences; legislative lobbying activities; membership campaigns; metropolitan teachers' institutes; Michigan AFL-CIO Council; Michigan Constitutional Convention (1961); teachers' salary and fringe benefits surveys; treasurer reports; White House Conference on Children and Youth (1960). Correspondents include Detroit city officials, Michigan congressmen and state officials, and national congressmen and officials including John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Most of the letters are answers to invitations for speaking engagements.
Part III deals mostly with the efforts to organize teachers during the 1960s and 1970s and dealing with the strikes that accompany labor disputes which is represented in the series Locals. There is ample amount of information about the American Federation of Teachers growth and inner workings during the 1960s and 1970s in the convention files; within these files there are not only basic convention materials but also notes from committee work and flyers from various factions within the AFT. MFT was a part of policy in education finances, assessments of teachers and teacher centers and is reflected in files dealing with the department of education and the like. Part III covers a broad range of topics with specific details on education reform in the 1970s, collective bargaining issues for teachers, political structures in Michigan and various issues on civil rights in Michigan, particularly the bussing of students. Series five contains photographs and audio recordings.

AFT Office of the President Records

dgolodner — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:06:07 -0400

Minutes, correspondence, reports, publications covering the president's office of Carl Megel and predominantly Charlie Cogen and David Selden. Important subjects are teacher strikes, contract negotiations, school desegregation, Oceanhill-Brownsville, education legislation, job stress, teacher centers.

The records are divided into two parts.

AFT President's Office: Assistant to the President Bella Rosenberg Records

scaloia — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:21:06 -0500

Bella Rosenberg served as the assistant to the president of the American Federation of Teachers from 1984-2005, under Albert Shanker and Sandra Feldman. Albert Shanker was president of the AFT from 1974 to 1997. He was one of the first educators to embrace the findings of the report A Nation at Risk which outlined extensive problems in America’s public schools. Shanker and Rosenberg worked closely on various initiatives, many of them in response to the report. This included a peer review program started at the Toledo Federation of Teachers Local 250, a teacher certification program called the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and in 1988, the concept of charter schools, which later took on a life of its own and became very different from Shanker’s original vision. Beginning in 1970, while Shanker was still president of New York’s United Federation of Teachers, he wrote a weekly column in the Sunday New York Times titled “Where We Stand”. He had to purchase advertising space in order to publish his writing. The weekly column lasted for 26 years. Sandra Feldman became Vice-President of the AFT in 1974, president of the UFT in 1986, and took over presidency of the AFT upon Shanker’s death in 1997. She was also involved in the AFL-CIO and Education International, a worldwide federation of teachers’ unions. During her AFT presidency, she strengthened the union’s relationship with the National Education Association, though a vote to merge with the NEA did not pass. Feldman served as AFT president until 2004.

Rosenberg collaborated with Shanker and Feldman on many projects and initiatives for the AFT. They worked together on articles and speeches, particularly Shanker’s “Where We Stand” column. Rosenberg was a primary force in AFT’s Lessons for Life Campaign in the mid-1990s, which sought to address issues raised in A Nation at Risk. Rosenberg worked on a report released by the AFT in 2004, for which she analyzed data from the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress to conclude charter schools were performing worse than traditional public schools. She also gave many of her own speeches and interviews as a representative of the AFT.

The AFT President’s Office: Assistant to the President Bella Rosenberg Records contain correspondence, memos, notes, reports, manuscripts, books, brochures, press releases, surveys, minutes, VHS and audio cassette tapes, and photographic slides documenting the activities of the national office. The collection also contains articles, speeches, and testimonies, including, in some cases, multiple annotated drafts exchanged between Rosenberg and Shanker and Rosenberg and Feldman.

AFT Secretary-Treasurer's Office Records

dgolodner — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:27:04 -0400

Papers covering the activities of various secretary-treasurers of the AFT. The secretary-treasurer oversees departments within the national office, collects per capita dues, responds to affiliates’ needs such as strike and collective bargaining assistance, and is closely involved with the AFT Executive Council and the AFL-CIO secretary-treasurers.

Part I topics of note include organizing, segregated locals, worker education, international teacher unions, federal aid to education, and academic freedom.

Part II contains additional content related to the subjects in Part I, as well as material related to union finances, various assistance programs, strikes, the AFT Executive Committee and Council, AFT National Conventions, the National Education Association, and the AFL-CIO, especially jurisdictional disputes and secretary-treasurers' meetings.

AFT Southern Regional Office Records

drice — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:56:38 -0400

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), was founded in 1916 to improve the working lives of teachers through-out the country and has grown to be one of the largest unions in the United States that is affiliated with the AFL-CIO. The southern regional office is one of five satellite offices of the AFT. The southern region represents teachers from elementary school through higher education, paraprofessionals, and school-related personnel who are members of the AFT in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington D.C. The function of the office is to assist in organizing local affiliates in the region, help with negotiations, lend support in various education reform initiatives and train AFT members in the region.

The majority of the office’s records consist of correspondence between locals, school districts, and the AFT. These records also give detailed information on organizing campaigns and negotiating contracts. Other materials include state constitutions, education related issues, lawsuits, legal decisions, state and federal legislation, pamphlets, salary information, news releases, newspaper articles, and union newsletters.

American Federation of Teachers: Northeast Regional Office Records

dgolodner — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:49:22 -0400

These records represent roughly a decade’s worth of general business including correspondence with state offices, meeting minutes, conference materials, policy documents and other items relevant to educational issues and topics for locals under the Northeast Regional Office. There is also valuable information on Education Alternatives Inc in Hartford, Connecticut and in Baltimore, Maryland.

American Federation of Teachers Publications

dgolodner — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:23:31 -0500

The American Federation of Teachers was founded in 1916 and immediately made the American Teacher, published by the New York City Teachers Union, as its official organ. Since then the AFT has published numerous publications that range from organizing tools to professional development materials for its members. It has also published materials dealing with the labor movement, tenure, civil and human rights as well as teaching tools. Official publications of the AFT also spoke directly to the AFT’s diverse membership, which includes higher education higher education faculty and staff, paraprofessionals, public employees and health care workers.

This is an artificial collection made up of these publications from AFT headquarters, AFT affiliates and individuals associated with the AFT drawn from the preexisting library collection and from various other shipments.

David Elsila Papers

kschmeling — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:34:01 -0400

David Elsila is an activist, educator, writer, editor, and historian best known for his work involving the labor movement. He notably served as the longtime editor for the UAW’s magazine Solidarity, managing the publication from 1977 to 1998. Before then, he was editor for the American Federation of Teacher’s publications American Teacher and Changing Education. Throughout his diverse career, he also taught journalism courses at Wayne State University, wrote several books on labor history, served as Vice-President of the ACLU of Metropolitan Detroit, was a board member and editor of the Michigan Labor History Society, and received numerous awards for his journalistic and civic accomplishments.

Howard Hursey Papers

dgolodner — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:44:44 -0400

Howard Hursey was a national representative for the American Federation of Teachers. This collection documents his time as an organizer from the 1960s through the early 1970s. The American Federation of Teachers experienced huge growth in membership during this time and the collection represents this and the strain on AFT workers. Mostly Hursey organized in the Southern United States, but there are materials from Los Angeles and Illinois and points in-between. The correspondences contain contracts, meeting minutes, reports, notes about organizing and issues facing various locals. There are also internal communications about organizing strategies, the growth of AFT, and the treatment of workers in the AFT which is reflected in the Committee for National Representatives.

Gabriel R. Mason Papers

drice — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:07:28 -0500

Gabriel Mason was a teacher and administrator in the New York City Public School System for over fifty years. He lectured in philosophy and education, was active in teachers unions, and was the author of a number of books. His papers consist of a manuscript copy of a chapter of his autobiography, "The Teachers' Union," plus a draft of a dedicatory note to Albert Shanker.

Robert Nielsen Papers

dgolodner — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 15:30:02 -0400

Dr. Robert M. Nielsen was born in Nebraska in 1933. Dr. Nielsen became a professor of mathematics at the University of Delaware. In the late 1960s he was the co-founder of the AFT local for faculty at the university and was president from 1969-1973.
In 1973 Nielsen became director of the AFT’s colleges and universities department in which he took both aspects of academic professionalism and union professionalism into creating a strong and viable department within the AFT. Dr. Nielsen was promoted to assistant to the president for higher education in July 1979. He had a regular column in the American Teacher as well as in the AFT’s publication specifically for members in higher education called On Campus. During his tenure at the AFT Dr. Nielsen played a vital role in organizing new higher education locals within the AFT and brokered joint organizing campaigns with the American Association of University Professors. From 1989-1990, he was a visiting professor at the University of Texas – Austin as a consultant to the Carnegie Foundation Mathematics Quality Education for Minorities Project.

He retired from the AFT in 1991 to work on developing better mathematical education reform. Dr. Nielsen died of cancer in February 2002.

Albert Shanker Papers

drice — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:36:38 -0500

Albert Shanker is considered one of the most important labor leaders of the late 20th century, as the longest sitting president of the American Federation of Teachers. He was considered a leader in the development of public education, civil rights, and trade unionism. His papers reflect mainly his college years and early career as a teacher in New York City.

Workers' Education Local 189 Records

drice — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:18:52 -0500

Workers Education Local 189, American Federation of Teachers, was founded in November 1922 as the bargaining agent for the faculty members of Brookwood Labor College. After Brookwood closed its doors in 1937, Local 189 opened its membership to all persons, regardless of geographic location, who were engaged in workers' education. Throughout its existence Local 189 had been active in distributing workers' education materials to other members of the AFT, and to public schools, colleges and to the community at large. Members developed histories of the labor and civil rights movement. In the 1960s and 1970s Local 189 became vocal critics of the war in Vietnam and of President Nixon and voiced their opinion about the direction of the AFT. When the executive board of the AFT passed a resolution limiting locals to one geographic area, Local 189 would not abide by this and disaffiliated from the AFT in 1977.
The papers reflect the activities of the union in promoting workers' education, developing standards for workers' educators and supporting various progressive causes. The collection also documents the controversy which led disaffiliation from the AFT.

30813, President Bill Clinton, Albert Shanker, Ed McElroy

dgolodner — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:05:21 -0400

President Bill Clinton, AFT President Albert Shanker and Secretary-Treasurer Ed McElroy pose with a "Lessons for Life" poster.

Albert Shanker, Bayard Rustin

dgolodner — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:08:28 -0400

Albert Shanker and Bayard Rustin march in support of collective bargaining rights for paraprofessionals.

(11774), AFT Strike, Inkster, MI

jhelpap — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:59:10 -0400

AFT Strike, 1973, Inkster, MI

(12130) Victor Gotbaum and Albert Shanker

jhelpap — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:16:56 -0500

Victor Gotbaum, President of AFSCME district 37 and Albert Shanker, president of the United Federation of Teachers testifying about the New York City fiscal crisis.

(12143) Albert Shanker

jhelpap — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:51:22 -0500

Albert Shanker Speaking at the 1986 Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy.

(12144) Albert Shanker

jhelpap — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:57:13 -0500

Albert Shanker speaking at the Council for Basic Education Reception at the Capital Hilton.

(12145) Albert Shanker

jhelpap — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:04:23 -0500

Albert Shanker speaking before the National Press Club.

(12146) Albert Shanker before the National Board for Teaching Standards

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:30:33 -0500

Albert Shanker testifying for funding in front of the National Board of Teaching Standards.

(12147) Albert Shanker before the National Press Club

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:47:05 -0500

Albert Shanker speaking before the National Press Club

(12148) Albert Shanker speaking at a Florida Organizing Drive

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:52:53 -0500

Albert Shanker speaking at a Florida Organizing Drive

(12149) Albert Shanker Speaking at Yale University

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:00:10 -0500

Albert Shanker speaking at Yale University

(12150) Albert Shanker Speaking at Yale University

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:05:14 -0500

Albert Shanker Sitting down to dinner after a speech at Yale University

(12151) Albert Shanker

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:13:20 -0500

Albert Shanker speaking before the health care reform committee.

(12152) Albert Shanker

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:18:11 -0500

Albert Shanker speaking at a committee hearing.

(12153) Albert Shanker in front of the Senate Education Committee

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:26:57 -0500

Albert Shanker speaking in front of the Senate Education Committee

(12154) Albert Shanker giving a speech

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:31:27 -0500

Albert Shanker giving a speech.

(12155) Albert Shanker speaking to a reporter from WWRL

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:38:43 -0500

Albert Shanker speaking to a reporter from WWRL during a parent teacher demonstration at PS 11.

(12156) Albert Shanker speaking before the Jewish Labor Committee

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:44:17 -0500

Albert Shanker speaking before the Jewish Labor Committee

(12157) Albert Shanker and Bayard Rustin

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:58:30 -0500

Albert Shanker (left) and Bayard Rustin (right)

(12160) Albert Shanker, Bayard Rustin, and A. Philip Randolph

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:27:04 -0500

Albert Shanker, Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph (left to right)

(12161) Bayard Rustin and Albert Shanker

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:34:11 -0500

Bayard Rustin and Albert Shanker (left to right) sitting down before dinner.

(12162) Albert Shanker, Bayard Rustin

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:40:16 -0500

Albert Shanker and Bayard Rustin (left to right) discuss a memorandum.

(12163) Bayard Rustin and Albert Shanker

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:46:51 -0500

Bayard Rustin and Albert Shanker (center and right) unknown gentleman on left.

(12164) Sandy Feldman and Albert Shanker

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:52:06 -0500

Sandy Feldman, president of the United Federation of Teachers and Albert Shanker (left and center) unknown woman on the right

(12165) Albert Shanker being presented with the Father of the Year Award

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:58:02 -0500

Albert Shanker being presented with the Father of the Year Award by Jerry Stiller

(12166) Senator Leonard P. Stravisky and Albert Shanker

jhelpap — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:03:57 -0500

Albert Shanker presenting the United Federation of Teachers; John Dewey Award to NY State Senator Leonard P. Stravisky.

(24702) Albert Shanker, United Federation of Teachers, Local 2, AFT

jhelpap — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:42:56 -0400

Albert Shanker, United Federation of Teachers, Local 2, AFT

(24768) Albert Shanker speaking at the Delgate Assembly, United Federation of Teachers, Local 2, AFT

jhelpap — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:13:20 -0400

Albert Shanker speaking at the 1968 United Federation of Teachers Delegate Assembly, Local 2, AFT

(24769) Albert Shanker, United Federation of Teachers, Local 2, AFT

jhelpap — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:18:13 -0400

Albert Shanker giving a speech at a United Federation of Teachers Meeting, Local 2, AFT

(24770) Albert Shanker, United Federation of Teachers, Local 2, AFT

jhelpap — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:22:24 -0400

Albert Shanker giving a speech before the negotiating committee at the United Federation of Teachers Delegate Assembly

(24771) Chapter Chairman's Meeting, United Federation of Teacher's, Local 2, AFT

jhelpap — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:26:05 -0400

Chapter Chairman's Meeting, United Federation of Teachers, Local 2, AFT