Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City teachers' strike, which denied 1,100,000 children formal schooling for 36 school days in three separate walkouts this fall, finally ended last week. As might be expected in so bitter a battle, the terms of settlement-reached after a 27-hour weekend negotiating session-did not really please anyone. In the long view, the militant United Federation of Teachers may have lost far more than...
Extra Classes. Ending the strike still left the schools with a lot of lost time to make up. The Board of Education initially announced that the school day would be extended 45 minutes daily for 14 weeks. In addition, there would be ten days of extra classes carved out of vacation periods. Protests from teachers and students led officials to make the ten days optional. While the extra sessions cannot compensate for all the instruction time lost, they will provide enough overtime for teachers to recoup most of the pay lost during the strike...
...U.F.T., which includes 55,000 of the city's 57,000 teachers, wanted to close the schools down completely during its strike. It failed to do so. Perhaps 350,000 students were able to attend classes-either in schools that remained open or in makeshift classrooms set up on parental initiative. At least 7,500 U.F.T. members violated union orders by teaching outside of union-authorized schools. In many areas, parents physically occupied their schools to make sure they stayed open; at P.S. 84 on Manhattan's upper West Side, parents took turns guarding the doors and patrolling...
...potential for mischief in so prolonged a period of youthful idleness, police reported that there was no significant rise in juvenile delinquency. A feeling expressed on both sides was that it was the kids who, by their restrained conduct, showed themselves to be the real heroes of the strike...
...schools reopened the day after teachers voted to approve the settlement, but the fragile nature of the truce was illustrated when eight union teachers were prevented from entering an Ocean Hill-Brownsville school. Shanker threatened to call the teachers out on a fourth strike if they were not admitted quickly. Swift action by Trustee Johnson averted more trouble, and the schools went back into full session...