New York State United Teachers (NYSUT)

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Demo CD of "Where We Stand" columns by Albert Shanker

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Training tapes and videos on a varietyof topics, 1969-2005, focusing on the 1980s and '90s. Includes speeches and interviews with NYSUT president Tom Hobart, clips from Representative Assemblies, tributes honoring Al Shanker.

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Biographies of officers and field staff of New York State Teachers Association (NYSTA) 1961-1975. Includes some photographs (formal head shots), many in poor condition.

Abstract The series spans the late 1960s to 1981, with a few documents dating from the 1950s and as early as 1938, but focuses mainly on the early 1970s, the formative years of NYSUT as it emerged from NYSTA (New York State Teachers Association) and struggled with the question of unity with the National Education Association (NEA) versus affiliation with the AFL-CIO and the American Federation of Teachers. Issues of professionalism -- respect, recognition, and individual autonomy -- clashed with the...

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Covers 1970-1999, with some material dating back to 1959. Materials for NYSUT/NYSTA Representative Assembly/Delegate Assembly, the annual convention of the New York State teachers union.

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Consists of computer print-outs of teacher salaries by degree of education, years of service, and school district. Does not contain any identifying information for individual teachers.

Abstract As vice president of New York State United Teachers, Maria Neira oversees the union's initiatives on educational policy and is NYSUT's frontline advocate to the New York State Board of Regents and the State Education Department. At her direction, the NYSUT Education & Learning Trust, the union's professional development arm, has strengthened and expanded educational opportunities for teachers and other school staff. Neira was appointed by President Obama to serve on the President's...

Scope and Contents Files cover organizing activities from 1972 through 1989 by Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, an affiliate of NYSUT, and its counterpart in New York City, Federation of Nurses UFT. This was the peak period of organizing activity for these AFT unions, concentrated mainly in the New York City and Long Island metropolitan area but also including some medical centers, nursing homes/rehabilitation centers, and independent visiting nurse service agencies as far flung as Plattsburgh,...

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Training tapes and other videos on labor issues, 1972-1990