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Show 28 And: Everything NEA either had condemned or avoided saying about negotiations in the early 1960's was included in the com pletely revised resolution presented to the 1968 assembly in Dallas. Negotiating agreements, says the latest resolution, be established between teachers and school boards. agreements 'shall provide' for negotiations, mediation, fact-finding and appeal of impasses, and for grievance proce dures that include binding arbitration.22 'must' These It readily be can strikes and seen, then, that the NEA today calls strikes It not negotiations negotiations. of unionism, but it has been only uses the language increasingly using the traditional union tactics. Factors Leading to Several a More Militant Stand justifications and explanations have been cited by various students of the movement for the changes which have occurred. Certainly the sion may have had Many teachers ways teachers something rather consider it as public rapidly losing it is claimed. it serves has an a is their employment. purpose, but important job, he should These statements 23Robert its as thei r their profes militancy.23 "ca 11 i ng," but The notion that teachers popularity among teachers, are so Teachers believe that their job is important and that vital 221 bt d., perceived to do with their increased longer speak of teachi ng no servants have p. are 38 they have concluded that just because not be expected to suffer financially. indicative of the mood expressed by the teacher . Bendiner reviews several of the reasons cited by stu dents of the association movement in chapters 6 and 7 of The Politics of Schools: A Crisis in Self Government (New York: Harper and Row, 1969). one |
