This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Monday, November 24, 1997)
 | | The Teachers' Unions:
How the NEA and AFT Sabotage Reform and Hold Students, Parents, Teachers, and Taxpayers Hostage to B
by Myron Lieberman |
Free Press
320 pages, January 1997
Hardcover, 25.00
ISBN: 0684842823
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
Everyone wants to reform public education in America. But few realize that the principal obstruction to all reform is a pair of powerful and well-entrenched organizations: the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The NEA and AFT enroll over three million members. Their local, state, and national revenues exceed $1 billion annually, not counting their PACs, foundations, and wholly owned or controlled subsidiaries. In this unprecedented expose, Myron Lieberman shows how they raise and spend vast amounts, how they protect the power and perquisites of more than 6,000 officers and staff, and how they employ more full-time political staff that the Democratic and Republican parties combined. Teachers will be shocked to learn how the unions stifle dissent within their ranks, how union bureaucrats enjoy a standard of living few teachers could hope to achieve, and how union national politicial activities are far removed from most teachers' inter
ests or political preferences.
- Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction : Why This Book?
2. The Takeoff
3. NEA/AFT Objectives
4. Bargaining with the NEA/AFT
5. Union Political Operations
6. State Teacher Unions
7. The War Against Competition and Contracting Out
8. Education's Gravy Train
9. Paying the Bills: NEA/AFT Revenues
10. Free Economic Riders or Forced Political Passengers?
11. AFT President Albert Shanker: Visionary or Union Apologist?
12. Takeoff Promises, Landing Realities
13. NEA/AFT Merger: Teachers in the AFL-CIO
14. What Is to Be Done?
Appendix A: NEA-PAC: A Commentary
Appendix B: Estimated AFT Revenues
Appendix C: Jurisdictional Agreement Between the NEA and the AFL-CIO
Appendix D: Rankings by Expenditures, State Teacher Union PACS
Notes
Index
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