ABSTRACT
A quarter-century ago, “information technology” held little interest for most leaders and staff within the National Education Association. Leadership and staff essentially dismissed “high tech” as merely a set of tools, albeit expensive ones, for streamlining NEA’s existing operations, from processing memberships to keeping financial records. Real trade unionists didn’t pay much attention to what all those computer people were doing. Real trade unionists bargained and organized and lobbied and rallied.
