Records, 1968-1994.

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Records, 1968-1994.

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The records contain agendas, circulars, clippings, correspondence, fliers, minutes (including some UFT executive board minutes), newsletters, and petitions documenting the Caucus campaigns for union offices, for union democracy and contract enforcement, improved working conditions, for community participation in the administration of the school system, for an alliance with African American and other community interests on behalf of greater funding for the New York City school system, and in opposition to the domestic and foreign policy positions taken by the leadership of the United Federation of Teachers and its president, Albert Shanker, in particular those involving education reform, the Vietnam War, and international labor activities. Notable files include those dealing with the 1968 teachers strike and its aftermath, and those from 1984-1987 pertaining to the campaigns of TAC member Michael Shulman for the position of Vice-President for academic high schools (he was elected in 1985).

1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes).

Churchill County Museum

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Churchill County Museum

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New Action Coalition.

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Shulman, Michael

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United Federation of Teachers

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The Teachers' Union (TU) of New York City was organized in 1916 and chartered as Local 5 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Although constrained by the AFT's no-strike pledge, laws against strikes by public employees, the authoritarian and paternalistic policies of the Board of Education, and the resistance of many teachers to trade-union appeals, the Teacher' Union soon won a reputation for militancy. The Teachers' Union not only addressed the bread and butter issues of salaries, pen...

Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District (New York, N.Y.)

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Teachers Action Caucus

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The Teachers Action Caucus, as Teachers for Community Control, was a rank and file opposition group within the United Federation of Teachers (New York City) that was founded by former members of the radical Teachers Union of the City of New York (1916-1964), many of whose leading activists were Communists, and by younger teachers representing the New Left of the 1960s. While the impetus for the Caucus founding in 1968 was its objection to the UFTs position relating to the impending crisis in rel...