In Coast Union Clash, Reform Ideas Not 'Hot Buttons' for Teacher Votes

By Ann Bradley

San Francisco--Even as the national teachers' unions are repositioning to play up their interest in professionalism and other elevated issues, a contest between the two here suggests that when the stakes are high, union politics looks much the same as it always has.

Teachers this week are anxiously awaiting the results of a mail-in ballot election in which the San Francisco/American Federation of Teachers is once again trying to take the right to bargain away from the San Francisco Classroom Teachers Association, a...