As the child of immigrants and the only Jewish family in a Queens, N.Y., neighborhood of mostly Irish and Italian households, Albert Shanker grew up aware of the outsider’s status.
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Bridging the Worlds of Labor and Civil Rights
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Fighting for Freedom Around the World
Written on April 3, 1997READ MORESoon after President Ronald Reagan crushed the air traffic controllers union, PATCO, in the early 1980s, a group of visiting Asian teachers met with Al Shanker. They didn’t want to talk about education, recalls AFT international affairs director David Dorn. -
Collective Bargaining: Laying the Foundation
Written on April 2, 1997READ MOREOn Feb. 28, family, friends and colleagues gathered at New York City’s Stuyvesant High School to honor an old alumnus, someone who had dedicated his life to advancing the work and workers of Stuyvesant and public schools nationwide.
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