1. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT)

2. Aims To increase members wages.
Increase the number of members in their union.
Increase the ratio of union members compared to the those teachers who are not in unions,
Minimise the competition between public schooling and other forms of education including private and charter schools.
Eliminate any form of basing pay on a teacher’s performance or ability.

3. Tactics Initially, they had a no-strike policy.
This policy was then reversed in the mid-1950s as they campaigned for Collective Bargaining Laws. – For example, AFT teachers in New York City staged one-day strikes in 1960 and to dramatize their demands.
They educate the public on issues relating to the teaching profession.
They lobby for state and federal legislation.
Tactics

4. Failures
There has been a history of corruption within the union. Some examples:
Teachers Union (AFT Local 6) was sentenced to nine years (later reduced to seven in exchange for testimony) in prison for embezzling $4.6 million in union funds. 
Pat Tornillo, former president of the United Teachers of Dade (AFT Local 1974), pled guilty and was sentenced to 27 months in prison for crimes related to the alleged embezzlement of $650,000 in union funds. An AFT audit found that Tornillo may have stolen up to $2.5 million.
The former treasurer of AFT Local 3845 in Philadelphia pled guilty to crimes relating to the embezzlement of $43,600 in union funds.
Other than this, the AFT have had no other failures and have been generally successful in their campaigns.

5. Success & Influences on US Policies
President John Kennedy's 1962 Executive Order 10988, extending collective bargaining rights to federal employees, and to enactment of state collective bargaining laws for teachers.
In 1916, the AFT established "colored" locals in segregated school districts. In 1918, the AFT demanded pay equalization for teachers, without racial distinction. Then, steadily by the 1930s, the AFT eliminated color barriers in most locals. During the 1930s, the AFT—in alliance with the NAACP— sought equal rights and accommodations for all students in the South.
The AFT filed briefs for the desegregation cases Briggs v. Elliot (1952) and Brown v. Board of Education(1954), advocated the broadening of educational opportunities for all students, and supported the 1963 March on Washington and the mid-1960s voter registration drives. In 1957, the AFT revoked the charters of its few remaining segregated southern locals.

6. Funding Streams CONTRIBUTIONS $33,601,605 ranks 9 of 18,825 LOBBYING
$1,350,981 (2016) $1,260,942 (2015) ranks 346 of 3,787 in 2016
OUTSIDE SPENDING
$7,692,659  ranks 31 of 170
Funding Streams