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The article discusses on labor issues concerning education practitioners in 1960s in the U.S. Strikes and the use of collective bargaining were being considered unprofessional in education sector. This principle remained true until the New York teachers have had a demonstration in 1961, which changed the teacher-school board relations. Through collective bargaining and professional negotiation, teachers were successful in changing their working conditions, including their salaries and other benefits.

The brassy, high-handed nineteen-year-old Democratic administration of Pawtucket, Rhode Island has hit the city's 8,175 public-school pupils and 534 public-school teachers. The pupils have lost vital weeks of schooling and the teachers are temporarily without livelihood. The occasion is a strike forced upon the teachers on May 14, 1951 by the Pawtucket School Committee. It came after six months of negotiating by the Pawtucket Teachers' Alliance for a flat $410-a-year annual pay raise. There is good reason to suspect that die committee was not really negotiating but was merely stalling. The fact that Pawtucket's schools have been closed for so long relates directly to the desperate financial situation of remnants of the Democratic administration in the U.S.

The article focuses on the increasing militancy of teachers in the U.S. It is expected that more strikes of teachers will take place as another season of contract negotiations approaches. The militancy results from the lower salary of teachers compared to many workers of comparable training and less responsibility. Another impetus to the militancy is the rivalry between the American Federation of Teachers (A.F.T.) and the National Education Association of the U.S. (N.E.A.).

The article reports on the strike by 4,600 public high school teachers who demanded for wage increase in New York City. It states that the strike was illegal under the Condon-Wadline Act which dismisses public employees who performed strikes. It mentions that School Superintendent John J. Theobald suspended the teachers.

The article offers information on the dispute between the teachers of schools in California and the school authority. It mentions that the teachers went on strike after the negotiations between the teacher's union and the Board of Education collapsed. It also discusses the cause of the dispute, one of which is the demand of high salary, and focuses on the role of the Governor of the state, Ronald Regan regarding the issue.