Labor in the News: MCFT's Joseph Monte
Monday, November 5, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Joseph Monte, co-founder and president of two area education unions, is the
subject of a profile
in Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine. Now 80, Monte, the senior
member of the guidance resource counseling staff at Albert Einstein High School
in Kensington. is the oldest guidance counselor in the Montgomery County Public
Schools system, and the story tells how he’s been “a teen angel” for
Einstein students for almost 50 years. Monte was also the co-founder and
president of two education unions: the Montgomery County Federation of Teachers
and the Maryland chapter of the American Federation of Teachers. “Joe was
always very active in the Montgomery County COPE,” says Metro Council
President Jos Williams, “and he always kept the local affiliated and active in
the Council.”