Regression Paper
...a real life example of a collective bargaining action. Support your findings. (10 points).
Copyright 2006 Pioneer Press
Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
November 26, 2006 Sunday
SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL NEWS
ACC-NO: 20061126-SP-1126-46-teachers-strike-was-first-in-U-S
LENGTH: 670 words
HEADLINE: '46 teachers' strike was first in U.S.: Sixty years ago, St. Paul educators walked the picket line and ushered in a new era of collective bargaining
BYLINE: Doug Belden, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.
BODY:
Nov. 26--When Dorothy Waldmann-Gruidl left her outstate Minnesota teaching job for the chance to teach music in St. Paul public schools in 1946, she took a cut in pay, got larger class sizes and had to work in a condemned building.
But a few months after she arrived, Waldmann-Gruidl and her colleagues in St. Paul protested their working conditions by launching the first organized teachers' strike in U.S. history.
After a little more than a month, the strikers prevailed, ushering in a new era of collective bargaining for teachers nationwide and sowing the seeds of St. Paul schools' eventual separation from city control.
On Monday, Waldmann-Gruidl and others who participated in the strike are being honored at a 60th-anniversary celebration.
"Those teachers sort of tied our destiny to the health of our students," said Mary Cathryn Ricker, president of the St. Paul Federation of Teachers, which is hosting the commemoration. "Our union can be really proud of that."
Waldmann-Gruidl was 25 when she came to St. Paul and had been teaching for only four years. The new job gave her the chance to be a music teacher, and the move also allowed her to be closer to her family in Minneapolis.
When her fellow teachers started talking strike, she said, she wasn't sure what to...
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