"Jon Shelton, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and author of Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order, says several forces contributed to a spate of teacher strikes through the 1970s, including the fight for collective-bargaining rights, conflicts over inequality in segregated schools, and political and economic pressures that simultaneously forced districts to cut costs and unions to fight for increased wages.
"In some cases, you had teacher strikes that lasted two and three months because the conflicts between the school districts and the teacher unions there were so pronounced," Shelton says.
This entry was posted in News and tagged CAHSS, Democracy and Justice Studies on January 24, 2019 by Sue Bodilly.