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Daily Archives: September 8, 1997

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Albert Shanker, center, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, leading a 1968 rally at City Hall. The union opposed efforts to decentralise the school system. In the foreground, next to Shanker, is the black human rights activist and Social Democrats USA supporter, Bayard Rustin. (Photo: William E. Sauro, The New York Times). Photo not included on publication of the obituary.

(1997) Unionist’s Zeal Impressed [Obituary to Albert Shanker]

Political historyBy Jen CalderonSeptember 8, 1997

Albert Shanker, union leader, intellectual, social democrat and raconteur was one of the greatest American labour leaders of his time. As President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1974 until his death, he was at times both militant unionist and adviser to US Presidents ranging from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan and George Bush.

The book that got pulped, Goodbye Jerusalem.

(1997) Like Pearls in the Mud

Political historyBy Jen CalderonSeptember 8, 1997

This rambling, indiscrete, self-centred, intermittently hilarious and frequently tedious, 600 plus page book lives up to its sub-title: ‘Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider’. This is so in two respects.

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