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...York sometimes seems to be run not so much by its elected officials as by the heads of its powerful civil service unions - men like Albert Shanker of the teachers union, Ken McFeeley of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and Victor Gotbaum of the municipal employees union. Over the years, those organizations have wrenched some extraordinary settlements from the city. A garbage collector's base pay after three years is $14,800. A policeman can retire at half pay after 20 years on the force, and probably collect more money in pension before he dies than he ever...
...took the prize for the greatest number of nationally known politicians. Crammed into the aisles were Reps. Bella Abzug, Elizabeth Holtzman, Shirley Chisholm, and Herman Badillo; ex-governor Averell Harriman; Mayor Abraham Beame; former Rep. Mario Biaggi; City Councilman Meade Esposito; writer Michael Harrington; and AFL-CIO leader Albert Shanker...
...Albert Shanker, a delegate from New York and AFL-CIO's national vice president...
Such settlements seemed to bear out the prediction of New York City Teacher Leader Albert Shanker that "the number of strikes will be small this year." Explains Shanker, who won the presidency of the 425,000-member American Federation of Teachers in a union election last month: "There is a general state of depression in which teachers are also caught. In this situation, they are willing to settle for less...
public education is likely to shift from the jousting of recent years between teachers and local school boards to a less visible fight for control of the nation's battling teacher unions. The prime contender is Shanker, who at 45 already has his hands on several levers of power in U.S. education. Besides the A.F.T., which is the second largest U.S. teachers' organization after the 1.5 million-member National Education Association, he heads New York City's United Federation of Teachers, whose showdowns with local officials over salaries and a school decentralization plan made Shanker...