EPISODE 4: TEAM UP! THE VALUE OF COLLECTIVE VOICE Often the need and value of teacher unions is lost in competing rhetoric. Until 1966, when teachers were give the right to bargain with a collective voice, there were many challenge-for example: pay inequities and gender pay gaps, loss of employment for pregnancy, low pay with teachers making less than factory workers despite having a college degree, non-instructional duties such as snow removal, and no sick time. Fighting for better working conditions also created better learning conditions for students. Join Juliet Benaquisto, President of the Schenectady Federation of Teachers and Jolene DiBrango, Executive Vice President of the New York State United Teachers to discuss the empowerment of teaming up!
Links:
New York State United Teachers
The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein
Jolene DiBrango on Twitter @nysutEVP
NYS Department of Labor Apprenticeships
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