Trying Times: How A Teacher Strike Began and Ended - Tapa blanda

Author Jim Harty is Philadelphia born, raised and educated. LaSalle University, B.A., Wharton School, U.of Pennsylvania; M.B.A. University of Pennsylvania, L.L.B.. Now age 75+, he moved to Pittsburgh in 1961 to begin life as a labor lawyer at Reed Smith, one our nation's largest firms. Mr. Harty has been practicing Labor Law for almost a half-century. He is a long time elected member of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He is also a long time listed attorney in Best Lawyers in America. Beginning with the passage of Act 195 in 1970 by the Pennsylvania legislature Mr. Harty has concentrated his legal career in the area of public school labor law and civil rights. Mr. Harty was a school teacher at the college level while he was doing his graduate studies. The 1971 letter cited in Chapter 28 of TRYING TIMES was originally addressed to him. "I always had trouble making long lasting enemies even at the bargaining table". "To succeed in this line of work you need only to have good listening skills and to have demonstrated integrity; the rest is easy."