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Show 31 anything to do with their becoming more agree that the New York situation was ing to a spokesman a change of character for the NEA on militant, most main .. openly now contributing factor lead Chester Nolte, an NEA collective bargaining, has said: The AFT-NEA rivalry has brought a 'two party' system to edu cation. This is good and stimulating all around. Since 1961, when New York Ci ty taught us a 1 essen, the NEA ha-s strengthened itself all along the line. It would not have happened, at least not as rapidly, without the AFT rivalry. Competition is not all bad, and has shown us that we cannot expect things to happen alone.29 During this nesses same The workers' by the management people. "piece of time, there of the country to become less ship with employees. to period of the action." would affect them. Teachers began They Perhaps All were to talk more about act. their destiny. a paternalistic ideas were the workers to have having in their relation were to be listened supposed to get a say in the decisions which a a movement among busi- supposed this movement affected policies which would affect them. controlling was teachers.30 say in the formulation of They began to talk more and more of They began thinking that they had a right to Of course, this meant conflict with boards of education, but according to this kind of thinking, conflict and in fact could result in engage in conflict with a good. small It was group of was not bad in also easy to itself collectively people (the school board) whom 29Chester M. Nolte, Ed., New Develo ments in Professional Ne otia tions, eport of the Work Conference in Collective Bargaining Denver: ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 025 020,1968), p. 10. 30Virgil Forum 30 E. Blanke, (January 1966): "Teachers in Search of Power ," Educational 231. |
