Imagining A Future

From EIA:

“We know we could experience an immediate, short-term loss of membership.” Last year I posted a PowerPoint presentation from the California Teachers Association titled “Not if, but when: Living in a world without Fair Share.” It illustrated CTA’s own belief that the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to overturn agency fee laws across the nation.

But CTA is not alone in its belief. NEA itself is trying to prepare all of its state affiliates for the inevitable day when they have to recruit all their members, and not rely on the threat of loss of their jobs to persuade reluctant teachers to join or pay agency fees.

The union created “Engaging Members and Leaders in a Non-Agency Fee World: A Toolkit” to assist those affiliates in recruiting and retaining members in a free and competitive market. NEA warns them, “we know we could experience an immediate, short-term loss of membership.”

I have posted the full 28-page document online and it is accessible through EIA’s Declassified page. Read through it all, but here are a few highlights....

They might start by earning the money, the respect, and the loyalty of teachers by representing all of them and by not being a political bully or an arm of the Democratic Party.  Until they do that, they can rot in hell for all I care.