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More than two and a half million "men and women working in schools
and colleges across the United States to help all students achieve."
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As an affiliate of the AFL-CIO and one of the fastest growing labor unions
in the country, are committed to being an active part of the larger labor
movement.
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Sponsors Read Across America , with millions of Americans celebrating the value of reading.
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Over a million members representing "teachers, school support staff,
higher education faculty and staff, health care professionals, and state and
municipal employees."
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Promotes Minority Community Outreach -- a collaborative with nine major
national organizations from the League of United Latin American Citizens
to the National Urban League.
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The new unionism enlists teachers as "full partners, indeed,
as co-managers of their schools. Instead of contracts that reduce flexibility
and restrict change, we—and our schools -- need contracts that empower and
enable. This new collaboration is … about waking up to our shared stake
in reinvigorating the public education enterprise."
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In 1941, created the committee that eventually became Unified Legal Services, a critical member benefit for teachers needing legal aid.
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In the first half of the century, when many trade unions excluded African
Americans from membership, they were among the first unions to extend full
membership to minorities.
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Pioneered the organization of professionals, and as a result of the drive
for collective bargaining for teachers in the 1960s, paved the way for the
unionization of other public sector and professional employees.
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John Dewey held union card number one. Other luminaries include Albert Einstein,
Hubert Humphrey and Frank McCourt.