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AFT Resolution

SECRET FILES

WHEREAS, some schools and colleges maintain secret or confidential files of educational employees; and

WHEREAS, the existence of such files allows and indeed encourages abuses that can affect the employment security of both probationary and educational employees; and

WHEREAS, such files are offensive to the sentiments of the nation as expressed by the Buckley amendment:

RESOLVED, that AFT sponsor legislation which abolishes all secret files used in personnel action.

(1976)

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