Workplace Issues and Collective Bargaining in the Classroom  

HARD BARGAINING (5/3): Coolidge Senior High School students learned about unions and participated in a hands-on simulation of a collective bargaining contract negotiation at the first local Collective Bargaining Institute for District of Columbia secondary students. The Institute was held at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and was co-sponsored by the Washington Teachers Union and the Community Services Agency of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO.

 COOLIDGE HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTATION: (4/28) Labor Speakers' Bureau member Roger Newell (International Brotherhood of Teamsters) makes a presentation to Coolidge High School social studies students about the benefits of union membership and how union management contracts are negotiated. The discussion with the students was an orientation to prepare them for a May 3rd Collective Bargaining Institute they will take at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), that includes their participation in mock contract bargaining.

TEACHER TRAINING SEMINAR: (4/14) Montgomery County high school teachers role-playing a union meeting during the Homestead Strike of 1892 during a Teacher Training Seminar presented by the Community Services Agency at the Montgomery County Education Association in Rockville, Maryland.
photos by James Auerbach