[1][2] The New York City Teachers Union (TU) had experience conflict internally for more of the early 1930s.
[3][4] During an August 1935 national convention, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) voted down a TU administrators' request to reorganize (100 to 79).
[2] (Forthcoming) In March 1960, the TG and Committee of Action Through Unity (CATU) merged into the United Federation of Teachers (Local 2, AFT).
In August 1960, New York's Board of Education and the UFT conducted initial collective bargaining.
In particular, the TG was "accommodating to the government, while the radical Union was confrontational" and "consistently sacrificed its commitment to academic freedom by collaborating with public authorities" to reveal TU ties to the CPUSA.