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30-439: DPE may refer for: Organizations [ edit ] Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO , a US trade union body Department of Planning & Environment , New South Wales, Australia Department of Public Enterprises , South Africa Dis Politika Enstitüsü , a Turkish think tank Science and technology [ edit ] Demilitarization Protective Ensemble ,

60-629: A demand.” In 1975, the UFT authorized a five-day strike, leading to allegedly saving New York City from bankruptcy after Shanker asked the Teachers' Retirement System to invest $ 150 million in municipal bonds. On September 21, 1981, Shanker had dinner with Leon B. Applewhaite, a personal friend and one of the three members of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA). Applewhaite was involved in deciding whether to uphold

90-457: A disposable suit for handling chemical weapons Development, Printing, Enlargement , or film processing Downstream promoter element , in genetics Dynamic programming equation , in mathematical optimization Other uses [ edit ] Decriminalised Parking Enforcement , in UK law Designated Pilot Examiner , a person certified by FAA to conduct pilot rating Topics referred to by

120-512: A few years. The number of professionals also grew phenomenally: By 1977, there were 13.9 million professional workers in the U.S. The fast-growing professional and public employee unions of the AFL–CIO pushed for a more effective voice within the federation. In 1967, the Council for Scientific Professional and Cultural Employees (SPACE), affiliated with the AFL–CIO, was formed. In 1974, it was renamed

150-437: A full-time union organizer. He felt that a teachers' union would be more effective if it were united with a common set of goals. In 1964, Shanker succeeded Charles Cogen as the UFT president, a position he held until 1985. In 1967 and again in 1968, he served jail sentences for leading illegal teachers' strikes. The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 closed down almost all New York City schools for 36 days. Perhaps Shanker

180-550: A labor federation of its own. DPE is governed by its affiliate unions. Membership in DPE is open to affiliate unions of the AFL–CIO. Currently, 23 national unions representing over four million workers belong to DPE. The member unions meet in a quadrennial convention (the last was in 2017), at which members elect a board of directors and officers, set dues, and discuss and approve policies. DPE members are free to establish their own policies and procedures so long as they do not conflict with

210-515: A need for societal changes. Shanker read several newspapers daily as a young boy, with an interest in philosophy. His idols were Franklin D. Roosevelt , Clarence Darrow , civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and American philosopher Sidney Hook . In 1946, Shanker graduated from Stuyvesant High School , where he was the head of the debate team. Thereafter, he majored in philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . He joined

240-593: A sewing-machine in a knitting factory, was a member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America . The Shanker family's deeply held political views were staunchly pro-union, following the socialism of Norman Thomas and including ardent support of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal . The experience of watching his mother work 70-hour weeks convinced Shanker from an early age that there was

270-606: A small photograph of Shanker, the Times columns, titled "Where We Stand", sought to clarify the union's position on matters of public interest. Shanker was a key figure in building the United Federation of Teachers and was elected president of the American Federation of Teachers in 1974. He was re-elected every two years until his death. Shanker's organizing efforts for educators cannot be separated from

300-598: A substitute mathematics teacher at Public School 179 in East Harlem , a historically working class neighborhood near Columbia's campus. He later taught mathematics in a full-time role at Junior High School 126 in the Astoria section of Queens from 1953 to 1959. He began his tenure as a union organizer in 1959 to help organize the Teacher's Guild, a New York City affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers that

330-499: Is Lorretta Johnson, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers . DPE's president is Jennifer Dorning. In 2004, DPE established a Committee on the Evolution of Professional Careers. Nearly 20 national unions agreed to delegate members, staff and resources to the committee, which identified and analyzed trends affecting the future of white-collar work, identified the fastest-growing white-collar professions, identified

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360-571: Is best known for opposing community-control leaders in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district of New York City, which led to the 1968 strike after white teachers were dismissed from the school district by the recently appointed black administrator. For more than a decade, Shanker wrote more than 1,300 columns in The New York Times (which appeared as paid advertisements) and essays in other publications. Accompanied by

390-835: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO The 1960s saw a significant increase in the number of professional workers joining labor unions in the United States . In 1962, President John F. Kennedy granted collective bargaining rights to federal workers. Unions such as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees , American Federation of Government Employees , American Postal Workers Union , National Association of Letter Carriers , American Federation of Teachers , Service Employees International Union , National Education Association and American Nurses Association added hundreds of thousands of new members in only

420-478: Is one of six constitutional departments of the AFL–CIO, which means that it may not be abolished without amending the AFL–CIO's constitution. Currently, the chair of the DPE general board is Paul Shearon, International President of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers. The first vice president is David White, National Executive Director of SAG-AFTRA. The treasurer

450-601: The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1974 to 1997. Shanker was born on Manhattan's Lower East Side in New York City to a Russian Jewish immigrant family. As a toddler, his family moved to the Long Island City district in Queens . His parents, Mamie and Morris Shanker, were immigrants from Poland. Both were union members; his father was a union newspaper deliveryman, and his mother, who operated

480-598: The Congress of Racial Equality . Shanker picketed segregated movie theaters and restaurants and was a member of the Young People's Socialist League and chairman of the Socialist Study Club. In 1949, he graduated with honors and began graduate studies at Columbia University , where he ultimately attained all but dissertation status. In order to earn money while writing his dissertation, Shanker became

510-640: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals criticized Shanker's behavior in their review of the FLRA's decision. (See 685 F.2d 547.) In 1988, Shanker was the first to propose charter schools in the U.S. He was inspired by a visit to a public school in Cologne, Germany, in which teams of teachers had considerable control over how the school was run, and about what and how to teach. They stayed with each class of students for six years. The schools were integrated by ethnic and economic origins, and were originally intended to focus on

540-468: The AFL–CIO executive council as well as certain standing and policy committees of the council. DPE also may elect delegates to represent it at the AFL–CIO quadrennial convention, and its delegates may participate in the convention's committees. As a matter of courtesy and AFL–CIO policy, DPE officers are also invited to participate in the activities of a wide variety of AFL–CIO councils, committees, policy-making groups, and staff and departmental meetings. DPE

570-608: The Council for Professional Employees (CPE). In 1977, the AFL–CIO constitution was amended to transform the council into the Department for Professional Employees. DPE's first president was Albert Shanker , president of the American Federation of Teachers. As a semi-autonomous department of the AFL–CIO, the DPE has its own constitution, elects its own board of directors and officers, holds its own convention, makes policy, and sets dues. In many respects, it acts like

600-469: The best strategies to organize these workers; and identified or developed new models of unions or professional association which would allow unions to expand membership in these professions. In 2005, DPE held its first-ever organizing conference, "Organizing Professionals in the 21st Century." Albert Shanker Albert Shanker (September 14, 1928 – February 22, 1997) was president of the United Federation of Teachers from 1964 to 1985 and president of

630-495: The constitution and policies of the AFL–CIO. DPE members elect three executive officers—a president, first vice president and treasurer, as well as nine individuals to a board of directors. One of the nine is elected as chair of the board. Between conventions, the board is the governing body of DPE. Day-to-day operations are overseen by the president. Under the AFL–CIO constitution, DPE (as with all trade departments) has certain rights. DPE officers are entitled to attend meetings of

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660-579: The decertification of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for the strike they had called in August of that year. During the dinner, Shanker urged Applewhaite not to decertify the union , an action which plainly violated the prohibition on the ex parte contact contained in the federal Administrative Procedure Act . Although the contact was not ultimately found to have legal consequences,

690-656: The legacy of his actions related to racial equity and anti-Blackness. Shanker is remembered for his actions during the Ocean Hill–Brownsville crisis . In 1968, Black and Puerto Rican parents in Brooklyn were piloting a community school program, known as community control , where school districts had the power to hire, fire, and approve budgets at the local level. The pilot program was designed to fight school segregation and racial inequity in school policies, teacher hiring, and Black and Puerto Rican student outcomes. When

720-423: The majority Black and Puerto Rican school board fired 14 white union teachers for underperformance, Shanker led UFT teachers in a strike to oppose community control. When the UFT proposed Lesson Plans on African-American History , “Shanker personally intervened and cut out radical ideas.” His intervention included removal of two chapters on Malcolm X and Fredrick Douglass’s words, “power concedes nothing without

750-825: The neediest students, drop-outs and those most likely to drop out soon. In 1993, Shanker turned against the charter school idea when he realized that for-profit organizations saw it as a business opportunity and were advancing an agenda of school privatization. Indeed, the charter schools that were finally established in the U.S. were different from Shanker's vision. "On average, charter schools are even more racially and economically segregated than traditional public schools," according to an opinion piece in The New York Times explaining Shanker's views. Although Shanker marched for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr., later in his career Shanker moved politically to

780-604: The original Competitiveness Policy Council . Shanker died of bladder cancer and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998 by U.S. President Bill Clinton . The quote, "When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children," is sometimes erroneously attributed to Shanker, as was done by Joel Klein in 2011 and Mitt Romney in 2012, among others in conservative political circles. [1] The Albert Shanker Institute attempted to find

810-597: The right. He came out in proud support of the Vietnam War. Shanker was a visiting professor at Hunter College and Harvard University during the 1980s. He continued to work toward organizing teachers throughout his life and attempted to bridge the AFT with the National Education Association , which he never saw happen. In 1991, U.S. President George H. W. Bush appointed him as a member of

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870-580: The source of this quote, and concluded that "we cannot demonstrate conclusively that Albert Shanker never made this particular statement... but, we believe the quote is fiction." The first appearance, which those at the Institute could find, was in the Meridian Star newspaper, in an editorial piece dated August 13, 1985, but no source is included in the article. Similarly, Washington Post fact-checkers concluded that "it’s virtually impossible to prove

900-414: Was founded by John Dewey in 1917. Eventually, the Teacher's Guild merged with New York City's High School Teacher's Association to form the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) in 1960. During the 1960s, Shanker received national attention and considerable criticism for his aggressive union leadership and skillful negotiation of salary increases for New York City teachers. He left his teaching job to become

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