American Federation Of Teachers

To foster cooperative action among members of aft-wisconsin; to promote and to assist in the organization of new locals; to assist affiliated locals and members of the state federation in obtaining the rights and services to which they are entitled, in achieving common professional goals and in promoting general welfare of not only aft-wisconsin members, but also other afl-cio union members and all workers; to raise the standards of state federation members by securing the working conditions essential to professional job performance; to improve educational opportunities and to promote democratic practices in the schools which will better enable students to take their places in the economic, social, political, and cultural life of the community; to improve standards for public employees by working for the passage and strengthening of collective bargaining and civil service legislation, promoting continuing education