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Cogen was elected president of the New York Teachers Guild in 1959. [6] The Guild was one of many competing teacher organizations vying to represent the city's 44,000 teachers. In 1960, Cogen merged the Guild with the High School Teachers Association, forming the new United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and he was elected its first president.
The UFT is the largest teachers union in New York City public schools, with about 189,000 members. It has a history of strikes, controversies, and political involvement, and is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stated he trusted principals to judge whether to keep teachers assigned from a pool of rotating substitutes or send them back. City officials said the Absent Teacher Reserve pool had about 1,200 teachers in Spring 2013, and they cost $105 million in 2013 in salaries and benefits, after counting savings from ...
New York City teachers voted to ratify a new five-year union contract that provides annual raises and significantly expands virtual learning, the United Federation of Teachers announced Monday.
The strike was a conflict between the community-controlled school board in Ocean Hill-Brownsville and the UFT, led by Albert Shanker. It lasted for 36 days and affected over a million students in New York City.
CSA is a collective bargaining unit for principals, supervisors and education administrators in New York City public schools and city-funded day care. It was founded in 1962 and has negotiated contracts, benefits and rights for its members.
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Albert Shanker (1928-1997) was a labor leader and president of the American Federation of Teachers. He was known for his activism, strikes, and columns on education and social issues.