The teacher unions
Subtitle: how the NEA and AFT sabotage reform and hold students, parents, teachers, and taxpayers hostage to bureauacracy
By: Myron Lieberman.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780684842820
Subjects: National Education Association of the United States; American Federation of Teachers; Teachers' unions -- United States; Collective bargaining -- Teachers -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why this book?; title: The takeoff; title: NEA/AFT objectives; title: Bargaining with NEA/AFT; title: Union political operations; title: State teacher unions; title: The war against competition and contracting out; title: Education's gravy train; title: Paying the bills: NEA/AFT revenues; title: Free economic riders or forced political passengers?; title: AFT President Albert Shanker: Visionary or union apologist?; title: Takeoff promise, landing realities; title: NEA/AFT mergers: teachers in the AFL-CIO; title: What is being done?