A late-1970s snapshot: The familiar face of a young union activist | GothamSchools

A late-1970s snapshot: The familiar face of a young union activist | GothamSchools

A late-1970s snapshot: The familiar face of a young union activist

by Philissa Cramer

L-R: Al Shanker, Paul Bradford, David Bloomfield.

Three decades before he became a GothamSchools contributor, education lawyer David Bloomfield was a young teacher trying to organize his colleagues.
While working to unionize teachers at the New Lincoln School, a now-defunct experimental private school in Manhattan, Bloomfield got help from United Federation of Teachers founder and then-president Al Shanker. In the background of the photograph they took together is Paul Bradford, the UFT liaison assigned to New Lincoln who