Teacher Unions Need To Respect Their Members

Great article by a California school teacher on how disrespectful and unprincipled the unions are with regards to their own members.

"Recently, I learned that CTA officials had decided to increase all teachers' dues by another $60 a year, purely for the purpose of fighting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's reforms on the ballot this November. They never asked our permission, nor even informed us of the purpose of the new fee. I found out purely by chance. Furthermore, when I asked for the money to be returned to me, CTA officials indicated that I could have to wait one or two years. "

"If teachers had the right to withdraw their financial support from the CTA union, perhaps union officials would actually have an incentive to care about what we think. If teachers had a say, I doubt that the union could get away with appropriating a chunk of our paychecks to play politics on a scale never before witnessed in our state."

Read the whole article here.
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