A Victory Within Reach: Realizing Teacher Unionism’s Progressive Potential in New York City, New York State, and the U.S.

From his grave, Albert Shanker, or more accurately, the machine he built, controls the largest teachers union in the world, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), which represents about 200,000 New York City teachers, and New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), with over 600,000 members, the largest state teachers union affiliate in the country. Parlaying this [...]