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• W233144070 abstract "The Chinese New Year celebration - this time, the year of the tiger - began almost on the same day as the formal announcement of the formation of the nation's largest teacher union. The timing was coincidental, but undoubtedly the idea that the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) would come together form a 3.2-million-member union under the umbrella of the AFL-CIO must seem as menacing as any tiger those who have never been comfortable with teachers as union members. Considering the evolution of the labor union movement, this proposed merger was probably inevitable. It came fruition rapidly in the last few months because the two unions not only were coming closer together in philosophy but also faced similar threats. A unified organization, the leaders announced, was needed defend public education from forces that had united to undermine our foundation of democracy - public schools. On the surface, these forces might seem the obvious ones: those who champion voucher programs or other ideas designed break up the monopoly of public education. However, there are indications that teachers themselves are being stalked in the political jungle as well. Recently, some conservative members of Congress and some conservative governors have chosen attack teacher unions, and even the political interest in testing was turned on teachers in the early days of the new congressional session as new bills proposed a competency test for teachers. President Clinton could hardly brash this issue off. As governor of Arkansas, he proposed and implemented competency testing for all teachers, a controversial strategy that resulted in a few hundred teachers statewide losing their jobs. Not be backed into a corner on this issue, the President proposed the idea himself in his State of the Union address. The importance of the NEA/AFT merger, however, is not that it provides better protection for beleaguered teachers. Rather, it is the possibility that such a huge union will put its clout behind significant changes in public education. Given the reputation of teacher unionism for being intransigent about changes that might undermine collective bargaining, the new union might seem the antithesis of education reform. While researching this issue for a Perspectives piece for the Council for Basic Education, I learned that the story is much more complex and hopeful than union bashers would like think. If the governing bodies of the unions approve the merger when they meet this summer, two people who came up through the ranks of teacher unionism during very turbulent times will share the leadership of the new union. Both of them represent breaks from the past. Bob Chase, president of the NEA, is a former social studies teacher in Connecticut who let it be known in a National Press Club speech a year ago that he wanted take the NEA in a new direction, away from its focus on the traditional union concerns of wages, hours, and working conditions and toward waking up our shared stake in reinvigorating the public education enterprise. The other leading role in the proposed merged union is played by Sandra Feldman, who assumed the presidency of the AFT after the death of Albert Shanker, the union's longtime president. Feldman is a former English teacher who was already a union field representative in New York City when Chase became president of his local NEA unit. They advanced through the ranks of union leadership during strange times. The NEA, seeing the success of the militant AFT in winning better conditions for teachers, ousted administrator groups from what had been a big family organization and became fiercely militant itself. Gradually, Shanker led the AFT toward a more statesmanlike position in national policy circles. The two unions virtually traded public images, with the NEA losing its tea and crumpets reputation and the AFT gaining public respect. …" @default.
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