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a poll to determine who should represent teachers as a hoax on the teachers because there's only one organization that can represent teachers and that is the negotiating council. This is because it is set up under state law, the Winton act, that only um, the negotiating council

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can conduct any negotiations with the Board of Education. We are in favor of a poll to decide how teachers want to be represented. What changes in the law they would like in representation? What do you mean how they would want to be represented? Well, they may

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wish to be represented by the council as it is. They may wish to be represented by a stronger uh council under law by collective bargaining. There are about six alternatives in the poll that we are presenting this afternoon to the Board of Education. Well, suppose the

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board does approve the polling of teachers. What will happen then if they approve the polling of teachers on the basis of which organization, not how we will have to go to court with the lawyers for our association because we feel this is a hoax and it

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is illegal hoax. It's a hoax because nothing would be changed in san Francisco, no matter who won the popularity contest, the law would remain the same. Were interested in changing the law if teachers wanted changed. Well, suppose the board turns down the proposal for a poll

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of teachers. What will you do? Well, as I stated publicly, last Wednesday, we recommended a recess to our meeting that we held last week where we had about 1700 teachers, the symbols for the purpose of considering strike action. And it's not just over the pole, it's

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also over the 14 demands that we placed before the board on September the second over a month ago, which we have had no real response to. We recessed our meeting because we felt that the Board of Education if acted upon this commissioner kim and resolution but

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show a certain indication of good faith to the teachers of SAn Francisco. And that's the reason it was recessed last week. But this Wednesday, I think if the board rejects us tonight, as I would think the teachers would consider this would be an act of bad

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faith. Does the A. F. T favor the taking of a poll among san Francisco teachers? It absolutely does. As a matter of fact, we have proposed the last four years an amendment to the state law that would allow a bona fide collective barring election and the

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polls suggested by commissioner kim it last week would move us in that direction because the teachers must have the right by secret ballot to determine an organization to represent them