Box 88

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List of folder contents for historical files re merger talks; summary of striking locals for 1975; list of AFT locals; list of AFT Executive Council, administrative staff, and national representatives; model bylaws for local teacher organizations; invoices for reimbursement; correspondence re NEA UniServ funding; remarks by Dr. White re NYSTA-UTNY merger at Board of Directors meeting, February 12, 1972; paper, The NYSTA-UTNY Merger: a survey and cost-benefit analysis, by Robert G. Weber

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Correspondence re disaffiliation of locals

Scope and Contents Brochure, Albert Shanker for Teacher Unity: Reprints of six of his columns from the Sunday New York Times; fact sheet, The New York Merger: A question-and-answer sheet specially prepared for Delegates to the 1972 AFT Convention; An Interview with Hobart: Hobart's views on affiliation with AFL-CIO; papers by AFT vice president Larry Sibelman, "Merger Can Be," "Merger - The Inevitable Is Inevitable," "Merger Can Work - It Does in Los Angeles"; brochure, "The NEA attacks teacher-unity and the...

Scope and Contents Press release, "AFT-NEA Talks Begin," October 3, 1993; National Education Association Proposal [to the AFT] Regarding the Creation of a Single National Teacher Organization, October 1973; clipping from New York Times, "Teacher Groups End Unity Talks: Proposed Merger of NEA and AFT Collapses," citing incompatibility, March 1, 1974; telegrams from Hobart to NEA officials, expressing alarm at termination of merger talks, March 19, 1974; correspondence by NEA president Helen Wise to NEA Board of...

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Letter from Hobart to Dean Streiff as NEA director for New York, protesting NEA's interference in Florida state affiliate's democratic process, April 25, 1975; telegrams from Tom Hobart and others re NEA actions in Florida

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Meeting minutes; letter to Streiff from NCTU, thanking him for financial support, July 16, 1973; program of annual summer conference of National Council of Urban Education Associations, June 27-29, 1973; petition for teacher unity; newsletters by NCTU, Teacher Unity, 1973; financial report; related correspondence

Scope and Contents Minutes of Caucus for Progress, November 14, 1974; Unity Caucus (of delegates to the annual convention of the National Education Association) Platform, 1974; list of contacts for NEA Unity Caucus state affiliates; list of contacts for NEA Unity Caucus in New York State (non-UFT); ballot for proposed name change from Alliance for Unity to Unity Caucus, June 2, 1975; hostile exchange between executive director of Coalition of American Public Employees (including NEA) and Unity Caucus secretary...

Scope and Contents Memo from Dean Streiff to Dr. Francis White, "Cabinet and Management Conference Discussion of Issues Related to Our Position on Merger versus Open Warfare with Respect to the Union," October 15, 1971; merger agreement between New York State Teachers Association (NYSTA) and the United Teachers/New York (UTNY), March 30, 1972; memo re merger proposals, December 22, 1971; confidential documents, Merger of NYSTA and UTNY: NYSTA Proposal I, II, and III; confidential memo from Dean Streiff to...

Scope and Contents Flyers of newspaper clippings urging "no" vote on NYSTA-UFT merger; anti-Hobart document, "How Not to Manage a State Teachers Association," by James A. Cullen, educational consultant; letters from Hobart to local presidents and retirees, discussing NYSTA leadership position on merger with UFT/UTNY, November 1971; internal memos discussing merger question, including legal issues; correspondence re local mergers; confidential merger agreement; ballot count; certification of results, by...

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Handwritten notes of merger meeting, March 1, 1972; handwritten notes re timetable, with cover memo from Hobart to professional staff, announcing that tentative merger agreement with UTNY had been reached, March 30, 1982; merger agreement; merger resolution, against consideration of national merger with AFT, passed by NEA Board of Directors, February 12-14, 1970, meeting; guidelines for local mergers with AFT, adopted by NEA Board of Directors, February 1971; memo re dues guarantee