Teachers' Federation of Puerto Rico
- Teachers' Federation of Puerto Rico
Infobox Union|
name= FMPR
country= Puerto Rico
affiliation=
members= 32,000
full_name= Teachers' Federation of Puerto Rico
native_name= Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico
founded=
current=
head=
dissolved_date=
dissolved_state=
merged_into=
office= San Juan, Puerto Rico
people= Rafael Feliciano Hernández, president
website= [http://www.fmprlucha.org/ www.fmprlucha.org] [http://sourcepr.net/huelga/ www.sourcepr.net/huelga] "Website dedicated to the strike. Not updated since it's end."
footnotes=
The Teachers' Federation of Puerto Rico (Spanish: "Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico", FMPR) is a union of teachers in Puerto Rico. Its primary base is among employees of the Departamento de Educación Pública de Puerto Rico.
The FMPR was formed in 1960s by radical union activists. It currently has 32,000 members, making it one of the largest unions in Puerto Rico. The FMPR has recently disaffiliated from the American Federation of Teachers. A referendum within the union decided on a majority vote to disaffiliate with the AFT and the AFL-CIO. The details of the referendum were published on their website and the votes were counted by the teachers themselves according to official reports. The conflict between the two unions remained in limbo through January 2005, when hundreds of FMPR officers opposed to disaffiliation formally asked AFT to investigate the disaffiliation vote and the governing practices of President Feliciano. Though the AFT investigation alleged numerous violations of the democratic rights of FMPR members, the whole matter of who controlled the FMPR wound up in court in Puerto Rico. FMPR prevailed in the court proceedings.
On February 21, 2008, the FMPR officially declared a strike. More information of this strike can be found in this address: http://sourcepr.net/huelga
Exactly nine days after it began, the FMPR declared the strike over, but their president, Rafael Feliciano, stated "It's over. At least for now." The website dedicated to the strike, HuelgaPR, has not since been updated.
External links
* [http://www.fmprlucha.org/ Official web site]
* [http://sourcepr.net/huelga/ New site dedicated to the strike; created by the teachers and students of Ciales, Puerto Rico]
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