Subseries: WEAC Leadership Conference, August 12-16, 1974

General meeting, August 15, 1974, for the Teachers Rights Workshop
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Staff members and teachers discuss the legal rights of teachers and the extent to which the WEAC can protect them. Teachers and staff discuss problems, and staff answers questions of the teachers.
Note: Very difficult to hear.

Teachers Rights Workshop (continued)
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Staff members discuss and explain laws concerning teachers' rights. Discussion of a teacher's rights in cases of non-renewal, what to do when defending a teacher who has gotten a non-renewal notice, and how to confront the board in such a case.
Note: Difficult to hear.

Teachers Rights Workshop (continued)
Physical Description: One side only. 30 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of discrimination and examples of cases with which the WEAC has dealt. Different staff members discuss and answer questions about teacher certification, the importance of getting all the facts early when representing another teacher whose rights have been violated, layoffs, and just cause.
Note: Difficult to hear.

Teachers Rights Workshop (continued)
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Staff members instruct teachers on their legal protections against race, age, and sex discrimination. Discussion of discrimination against girls and coaches in sports and of suing an employer or the union for discrimination. Staff members talk about detecting racial discrimination, give examples of discrimination, and answer teachers' questions.
Note: Parts difficult to hear.

Teachers Rights Workshop (continued)
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Staff members give suggestions on how to deal with discrimination, how to write up charges, how to prepare to appear before the board, and also offer suggestions of what not to do. Also discussion of reverse discrimination.

Teachers Rights Workshop (continued)
Physical Description: One side only. 5 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Staff members briefly discuss discrimination through use of a spoils system and contract language. Closing remarks.
Note: Very difficult to hear.

Teachers Rights Workshop, August 16, 1974.
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Staff members explain how teachers can determine which people in their communities control their schools and how to recognize what the board considers priorities. Discussion of the importance of men's athletics in schools and of gaining other teachers' and the community's support.

Teachers Rights Workshop (continued)
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Discussion and examples of discrimination against minorities and of how community support can be used effectively in negotiations. One woman coach talks about the problems she had because of sex discrimination in athletics.

Teachers Rights Workshop (continued)
Physical Description: One side only. 3 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Closing remarks about social change through education and the importance of confronting issues.
Note: Difficult to hear.

Meeting of the Women's Leadership Workshop, August 15, 1974.
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of sex discrimination. A lawyer whose firm specializes in cases of sex discrimination talks about the legal remedies available to women who are being discriminated against. Staff member and lawyer discuss the ways to overcome the feeling of isolation often experienced after filing a complaint. Also discussed are the slowness of the legal process in discrimination cases and alternatives which are faster.

Women's Leadership Workshop (continued)
Physical Description: One side only. 20 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Closing remarks. Also on the tape is a brief conversation between the lawyer and a teacher concerning the importance of personal presentation when applying for a job and on the necessity of motivation to do a job well.

Speeches at the general meeting of the WEAC Leadership Conference, August 14, 1974
Physical Description: 45 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Morris Andrews, WEAC Executive-Secretary, talks about criticism of leadership; Mike Wisnoski, President of the Hortonville Education Association, discusses the Hortonville strike; Dean Petitt, a Racine teacher, talks about negotiations going on in Racine; Lauri Wynn, WEAC President, speaks on leadership; Jerry Cooper, a Kenosha teacher, suggests the teachers group and determine what their priorities are.

Conversation, August 13, 1974, with two unidentified Greenfield teachers concerning the Hortonville strike and the teachers' involvement in it
Physical Description: 30 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: They also discuss the violence they had witnessed, press bias, and the negotiations.

Conversation with Greenfield teachers (continued)
Physical Description: 30 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of the state-wide teachers' strike. Also conversation with two unidentified Hudson teachers concerning the Hortonville strike. Discussion of the Hortonville Board, the repercussions the strike had on bargaining for public employees, the treatment that out of town teachers received, the police and the vigilantes. One of the teachers states that the strike could have been avoided if the administration had better leadership.

Conversation with Hudson teachers (continued)
Physical Description: 30 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of experimental teaching, the Hudson school system and administration.

Conversation with two Hortonville teachers, Jean Wall and Mike Wisnoski (President of the Hortonville Teachers' Association)
Physical Description: 30 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of teaching conditions, discipline within the school during the strike, events leading up to the strike, the vigilantes, and leadership in Hortonville. Also, they state what they see as the goals of the WEAC in the future.

Conversation, undated, with unidentified Green Bay teachers
Physical Description: 45 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of one of teacher's involvement in negotiating and of the advantages and dis-advantages of the WEAC becoming more bureaucratic. Also discussion about the certification of teachers and Hortonville.

Conversation, August 15, 1974, with unidentified Bloomer teacher
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of Hortonville. Discussion of the North Western United Educators. Talks about her participation in the Bloomer strike, and the causes of it. Discussion of non-renewal, just cause, and fair share.
Note: Background noise.

Bloomer teacher (continued)
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Continued discussion of Hortonville strike including the vigilantes, the Bloomer community's response to the Hortonville strike, her arrest in Hortonville, and press coverage of the strike.
Note: Background noise.

Conversation with unidentified Richland Center high school counselor
Physical Description: 30 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of the Hortonville Strike and also of a strike in which he had participated.

Richland Center counselor (continued) and Ted Burns
Physical Description: 30 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Continues his discussion of Hortonville. Also on side two is a conversation with Ted Burns, the Human Relations Chairperson for the Green Bay Education Association. Discussion of his background and experiences in teaching and of negotiations he was involved in at Shawano.

Conversation, August 15, 1974, with an anonymous Stevens Point teacher who is the President of the Stevens Point Education Association
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of the first weeks of the Hortonville strike including the town atmosphere, arrests, the vigilantes, community response to the strike and to outside teachers, and some of the incidents which he had witnessed.

Stevens Point teacher (continued)
Physical Description: 30 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Continued discussion of the Hortonville Strike, the vigilantes, negotiations, press coverage, and the Stevens Point community's reaction to the strike.

Conversation undated with unidentified teachers from Chippewa Falls, Germantown, and Stanley
Physical Description: 30 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: The teachers discuss the responses of their communities to the Hortonville strike, their views of the state-wide sympathy strike and how the strike in Hortonville helped them with their negotiating.

Conversation with unidentified Birchwood teacher
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of the Hortonville strike and the effects it had on the Birchwood negotiations. He believes that the board had a stronger position to bargain from because of the strike. Discussion of the NEA and WEAC, and what he thinks they should do in the future.

Birchwood teacher (continued)
Physical Description: One side only. 10 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of the WEAC staff, who he feels are representative of teachers throughout the state and supportive of the locals. He states that the only change he would have made concerning Hortonville would have been to provide better information on the state-wide sympathy strike.

Conversation with an unidentified Wittenberg teacher who was in the first organized group of outside supporters to go to Hortonville
Physical Description: 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: She tells about her experience of being hit by a car while picketing. Discussion of the outside police, the vigilantes, and the Wittenberg community's response to the strike. Talks about the statewide teachers' strike and why it failed and about the resentment against teachers because they only work 9 1/2 months a year.

Wittenberg teacher (continued)
Physical Description: One side only. 60 minutes 
Scope and Content Note: She states that the Hortonville strike might have gone better if there had been more outside support. Discussion of the Wittenberg board and administration and of the goals of education. Also discussed are the consequences which the Hortonville strike had on Wittenberg's negotiations.