biography
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Union leader, born in New York City, New York, USA. He was a confrontational president of New York City's United Federation of Teachers (1964–86), leading repeated teachers' strikes and becoming a major force in city politics. As national president of the American Federation of Teachers (1974) he supported public-school reform, and his weekly column in the New York Times served as a much-quoted forum for ideas on education. |
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