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The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools. As of 2005, there were about 118,000 in-service teachers and nearly 30,000 [2] paraprofessional educators in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members. In October 2007, 28,280 home day care providers voted to join ...
1919 Actors' Equity Association strike; 1919 New York City Harbor Strike; Boston cigar makers' strike of 1919; Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919; Steel strike of 1919; UMW Coal Strike of 1919; 1919 New England Textile Strike [8]: 122 1919 New York Longshoremen strike [9] [10] 1920 1,463,054 1920 Alabama coal strike; Denver streetcar strike ...
Cogen was elected president of the New York Teachers Guild in 1959. [6] The Guild was one of many competing teacher organizations vying to represent the city's 44,000 teachers. In 1960, Cogen merged the Guild with the High School Teachers Association, forming the new United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and he was elected its first president.
1863 – New York City draft riots, 120 killed and 2,000 to 8,000 injured [9] [31] 1871 – Second New York City orange riot, more than 60 dead, more than 150 wounded [4] 1741 – New York Conspiracy, 35 total executed as a result [2] 1712 – New York Slave Revolt, 31 total deaths consisting of 9 killed in the revolt and 23 executed as a ...
1934 New York hotel strike: 1934 New York City - Strike for Black Lives: 2020 Nationwide - Polish craftsmen's strike: 1619 Jamestown - 2021 Kaiser Permanente strike: 2021 Nationwide - 1834 Mill Women's Strike (Lowell, Massachusetts) 1834 Lowell, Massachusetts - 1948 Miami Garment workers strike [131] 1948 Miami, Florida - North Adams strike: 1870
Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis held a packed union meeting at their Beverly Hills home. Desi Arnaz poured his heart out in an open letter to the industry while Lew Wasserman worked the numbers ...
Anderson Avenue garbage strike. A common scene throughout New York City in 1968 during a sanitation workers strike. The transit strike was the first of many labor struggles. In 1968 the teachers' union (the United Federation of Teachers, or the UFT) went on strike over the firings of several teachers in a school in Ocean Hill and Brownsville. [6]
1985: Writers approve a new pact after a two-week strike, but the union’s leader calls it a “defeat” on the key issue of videocassette revenue-sharing. A 2007 rally in Century City, early in ...