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...York City, contract negotiations between the 80,000-member United Federation of Teachers and the school board bogged down last week. Albert Shanker, president of both the U.F.T. and the national American Federation of Teachers, described the situation as "increasingly gloomy" and publicly held out little hope that a settlement could be reached before the union contract expires this week−the day after the city's 1.1 million pupils return to school. As the strike deadline neared, however, the bargaining atmosphere seemed to be improving...
...example, is only six hours and 20 minutes; yet most elementary teachers also have two "prep periods" a week, while secondary teachers have five. The school board did offer a small salary increase for the teachers, who now make between $9,700 and $20,350 per year−but Shanker rejected it as "miserly." Last week the teachers demonstrated their support of his bargaining position when they marched, 15,000 strong, over the Brooklyn Bridge on the way from Board of Education headquarters to City Hall...
Chaotic Classrooms. All this left Shanker in an unenviable position. He knew that a school strike against a city already on its knees would bring civic wrath down on the U.F.T. and might undermine its support. On the other hand, he felt that he could not ask his teachers to give up working conditions won in earlier contracts or to fall further behind the soaring cost of living...
Most Restive. In addition to Gotbaum, leaders of some 20 other unions agreed to the compromise, but three key labor chieftains refused to go along: Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Ken McFeeley, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association; and Michael Maye, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association. Since the members of these unions are generally more highly paid than Gotbaum's municipal workers, they would be hurt the most by the arrangement. Their members are also the most restive; in fact, Maye, a boisterous former Golden Gloves boxer, was recently voted into office...
...word of the layoffs spreads, teachers are becoming increasingly indignant. Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, predicts there will be "massive protests" if all the cuts go through, and thinks the Federal Government will have to provide enough money to bail out the big-city schools. In the Santa Clara Unified School District south of San Francisco, 60 teachers who have been laid off charge that administrators seem to be immune to hard times. Says Jim Hamm, president of the Santa Clara Federation of Teachers: "In the past five years, the administrative staff has steadily gone...