The National Education Association, the largest education union, is preparing for a long, tough fight to re-elect President Obama...
The 3.2 million-member organization has affiliate organizations in every state, and Wilson said it is prepared to spend at least $60 million to reelect Obama.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Teachers, Here's Where Your Dues Money Goes
I don't know how this in particular is going to benefit me in the way of pay, benefits, or working conditions:
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I'd ask for a refund...
The unions are all about the unions...and I don't mean the membership. Teachers in Ohio and other states are bearing the blow-back to Obama fiscal policies as states try to get a handle on their finances...they should be so proud that the union that is supposed to represent their interests plans to support a candidate that has created an atmosphere that has placed them directly in the cross-hairs of state budget reductions!!!
Unfortunately I have to pay dues to a union simply because if someone wants to sue me as a teacher, the county won't back me and I'd have to pay for a lawyer out of my own pocket or take whatever punishment was given to me no matter what. I'm not saying that it should excuse bad behavior, but when a teacher is innocent, no one believes/supports the teacher.
Lawsuit-happy people/society = more union money.
I'm required by law to pay union dues, and each fall I get a rebate--an "agency fee" rebate. I use part of that money to be a member of the Association of American Educators, a professional organization that provides more liability insurance than the state teachers union does. Also, the policy is in my own name; many teachers don't know that their union policy is not in their own name, and the union doesn't have to defend them if it doesn't want to. In that way, my coverage is actually better, and for twice the dollar amount, than the union provides.
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