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DiSalvo, Daniel – Center for State and Local Leadership, 2012
At first glance, public-sector labor unions are just one of many types of organizations that participate in the political process. However, these unions differ significantly from other interest groups made up of individual citizens or non-labor organizations. Because their members' interests are tied to government policy, these unions are more…
Descriptors: Unions, Public Sector, Fiscal Capacity, Political Attitudes
Sternberg, Don – Principal, 2011
In this article, the author has equated the principal's relationship with the president of the teachers' union as a dance where each wants to lead and yet there is, as in most relationships, a mutual dependency that makes each person realize that there is a time when one leads and a time when one follows. The author presents the details of when…
Descriptors: Unions, Educational Change, Principals, Presidents
Downs, Philip G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines the impact of the school accountability laws "No Child Left Behind" and Indiana's Public Law 221 on Superintendents' perception of their relationship with the Teachers' Union Leader in their mandatory discussion meetings. Both school accountability laws contain provisions for the Indiana's Department of Education to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, State Legislation
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Antonucci, Mike – Education Next, 2010
The largest political campaign spender in America is not a megacorporation, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft, or ExxonMobil. It isn't an industry association, like the American Bankers Association or the National Association of Realtors. It's not even a labor federation, like the AFL-CIO. If one combines the campaign spending of all those entities it…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Unions, Political Campaigns, Union Members
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Cooper, Bruce S.; Sureau, John – Educational Policy, 2008
Union-management relationships have been filled with fear since the rise of capitalism; public education is no different. Workers fear exploitation by owners (profits depend on it) and capitalist/management has always worried that the working classes will organize and either take over the firm or strike and bring production to a screeching halt.…
Descriptors: Working Class, Charter Schools, Federal Legislation, Collective Bargaining
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American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC. – 1978
Daily summaries, official tally of votes, resolutions, and constitutional amendments adopted at the 62nd annual convention of the American Federation of Teachers, ALF-CIO, Washington, D.C., August 21-24, 1978, are presented. (JD)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, National Organizations, Teacher Associations, Union Members
NJEA Review, 1977
The NEA and its affiliates represent the nation's second-largest employee organization network. As a result the U.S. Department of Labor is continuing to press for inclusion of NEA groups under Landrum-Griffin scrutiny. Investigates what that means for teacher organizations. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Labor Legislation, Labor Standards, Teacher Associations, Union Members
Boulter, William F.; And Others – 1981
The study reported in this paper sought to identify reasons why teachers do or do not join unions. In addition, the study sought to disclose relationships between certain demographic characteristics and those reasons. The National Education Association/American Federation of Teachers (NEA/AFT) Membership Questionnaire, a Likert-type attitudinal…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Associations, Teacher Attitudes, Union Members
Dewing, Rolland – Peabody J Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Labor Problems, Mergers, Organizational Change, Teacher Associations
Ohanian, Susan – Learning, 1982
A teacher questions the motivations of teacher unions, which appear to be more interested in image-making, public relations, and politics than in teacher improvement and individual teachers' rights, attitudes, and problems. (CJ)
Descriptors: Individual Needs, Labor Demands, Leadership, Professional Recognition
Lynn, Joseph F.; Gray, James F. – Cath High Sch Quart, 1969
Presented at the 1969 NCEA Convention.
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Educational Policy, Employer Employee Relationship, Labor Relations
Muravchik, Joshua – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1989
Wiktor Kulerski, Deputy Minister of Poland's Ministry of Education, and Andrzej Janowski, a Vice-Minister of Education, members of the Solidarity union's teachers branch, discuss their involvement with the union that forced democratic reforms in Poland's Communist government and ensuing changes in the Polish social studies curriculum. (FMW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Democracy, Foreign Countries, Interviews
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Kaboolian, Linda – Education Next, 2006
According to Joe A. Stone of the University of Oregon, average students do better in classrooms with unionized teachers, but less able and more able students do not. While this particular assumption lacks empirical clarity, many administrators and school board members feel that it would be much easier to reform public education if teacher unions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Boards of Education, Union Members, Unions
Antonucci, Mike – Fordham Report, 1998
For more than a year the 2.3 million member National Education Association (NEA) and the 900,000 member American Federation of Teachers (AFT) engaged in merger negotiations. The plan was to bring American teachers together in one union for collective bargaining, political action, and education policy. This report gives a detailed picture of the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Educational History, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1974
This report contains information on State-by-State membership in the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) locals in 1974; comparative national AFT membership data for the years 1970 through 1974; information on State federations and their officers; AFT administrator locals; percent of instructional staff in the United States by members of the AFT…
Descriptors: Administrators, Professional Associations, Public Education, State Surveys
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