National Education System

Running head: NEA
National Education System

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National Education Association
In the country of United States the National Education System is the largest labor union
and the professional interest group. The Union is represented by the teachers of public school
and other support personnel, staff and faculties of colleges and universities, retired educators and
the students of college that are preparing to become teachers. There are 3 million people
membership in the National Education system. The NEA structure in few states had been
incorporated as professional Association and in some states as Trade Union. The congressional
charter had been hold by union under Title 36 of the United States Code. The union is the part of
the Education International but it is not the member of the AFL-CIO. National Education
System works for the schools children’s, teachers as to enhance the quality of students and
teachers in the school and to support the schools to make succeed the students and can improve
the quality of students. National Education System was founded in Philadelphia in the year 1857
and as the National Teachers Association (NTA). The first president of the union was Zalmon
Richards and he has been elected in the first annual meeting of the union in 1858 (Ling, 2016).
The legal Disputes in which the National Education System was involved
Abood v Detroit Board of Education
Parties
In the case Abood v Detroit Board of Education 431 US 209 (1977) the parties are Abood
who is the plaintiff and Detroit Board of Education that is the defendant in the case. The facts of
the case that Michigan Law had authorized ageny shop agreements had authorized between the
public agencies and unions represented by government workers. The Detroit Federation of
Teachers has been certified as the exclusive union for Detroit schoolteachers in the year 1867. .
Nature of Dispute
The nature of the dispute is regarding the Union shop which is existed in the public workplace.
The teachers of Detroit had sought for overturning the requirement that the fees which is
equivalent to union dues on the grounds that it opposed the collective bargaining and has the
objections to the ideological activities of Union. The court that has given the confirmation that
the Union is legal in private sector than it is also legal in the public sector.
Adverse Actions
D. Louis Abood is the teacher of a school which has been objected to union membership and to
union’s endorsements for the political candidates which is sued in Michigan state Court in the
year 1969
Dispute Resolved
The dispute was resolved through litigation