Posted on 05/20/2002 10:40:10 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:53:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ordered the National Education Association and its state affiliates to stop violating the religious rights of members who disagree with the union's political causes.
In a ruling made public yesterday, the federal agency said it would sue the nation's largest teachers union if it did not stop forcing teachers who categorized themselves as "religious objectors" to undergo annual written procedures so their dues would not fund the union's political agenda.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
What I want to know is how the union can justify an annual exam for opting out of dues-paying when these slackers take nine months just to finish the paperwork.
BTW, the courts have ruled in other cases that union members can prohibit their dues being used for political purposes if the union member disagrees with the union's political agenda. There was a suit against the Communication Workers of America that the Supremes ruled in favor of about ten years ago which focused on that very issue.
It is, and doubly dangerous because it seems most parents with children in the public schools are not aware of the power the NEA wields and their vile agenda.
"The evidence obtained during the investigation establishes a violation of a federal statute has occurred,"
If I "violate a federal statute",will they just tell me to stop doing it?
Since the NEA will never repent, let's help them perish. A wealthy NEA can buy whatever political clout they need to get their agendas passed. Help defund the NEA by informing teachers that they are entitled to a refund of the portion of their dues that the NEA and their state affiliates used for political activities. This refund can amount to several hundred dollars. See:
Reply # 14 in the thread Let's Help Nail the Teachers Unions -- It is National FReep Time
LANDMARK REPORTS NEA FLAUNTING FEDERAL LABOR REPORTING LAW
Here's some interesting information from the The Education Intelligence Agency (EIA) COMMUNIQUÉ (On the Web at http://www.eiaonline.com) -- May 13, 2002 issue:
"1) Are the Fat Years Over for NEA and AFT?
It used to be relatively easy for EIA to obtain accurate, up-to-date membership numbers for NEA and its state affiliates, but recently it has become a lot more difficult. Perhaps it is coincidental that the numbers are becoming harder and harder to find just as the news becomes less and less cheerful.
The tremors are small: lots of talk about needing inroads with Generation X teachers... financial problems here... possible layoffs there. In the past, membership problems were localized in the chronic, hard-to-organize states that had competing organizations. Today, the sounds are more widespread. NEA has grown every year since the mid-1980s, but for the first time the end of the boom may be in sight. The union experienced an increase of some 37,000 members this year -- about half of what it achieved in 2000-2001. More alarming if you're an NEA official is the fact that 20 state affiliates had a decrease in membership last year -- even as the number of potential members nationwide continues to grow at a fairly steady 2 percent annual clip.
EIA cannot yet identify which state affiliates are growing and which are not, though it seems safe to assume that the large states -- California, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, et al. -- continue to enjoy solid growth, while perennial weak sisters are now having serious problems. Activities to reverse the trend are already underway. The NEA Board of Directors granted $175,000 to the Mississippi Association of Educators for additional organizing. The North Carolina Association of Educators is laying the groundwork for an effort in support of collective bargaining in the state. North Carolina law currently bans collective bargaining by teachers.
Accurate AFT numbers are even harder to amass, because more of its members are not K-12 teachers. Nevertheless, the same tremors are coming from AFT. The AFT Executive Council's organizing committee met to discuss ways to get younger members more involved and active in the union. EIA estimates that about 70 percent of teachers are NEA and/or AFT members. Public school teaching may be the most highly unionized sector of the American workforce (the private sector is only 9 percent unionized). Is something about to give?"
We also need to inform teachers and education majors that there are alternative professional education associations that teachers can join for much less than what they are paying to the NEA:
Association of American Educators
25201 Paseo de Alicia, Suite 104
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
Phone: 949-595-7979 or 1-800-704-7799
Fax: 949-595-7970
Email: info@aaeteachers.org
Website: www.aaeteachers.org
Please note that the AAE is not a union. It is a professional association. Annual dues are $125 per year for teachers (includes $2 Million liability insurance - one of the reasons teachers join the NEA or AFT is for liability insurance). Student, retired educator, and associate/support memberships are $25 per year.
Call the AAE and ask them to send you some of their brochures. Stuff them with Teacher317's "UNION DUES REFUND NOTICE" and hand them out to teachers and education majors.
Here are some links that will be of interest to teachers (and parents):
"Grading the NEA - What Every Teacher Needs to Know About The National Education Association: A Special Report" by Perry L. Glanzer, Ph.D. & Travis R. Pardo (http://www.family.org/gradingthenea/news/a0012243.html)
"Teacher Unions and Parent Involvement" (http://www.educationpolicy.org/EPIseries/parent-bklt.htm)
Enjoy.
The BSA would be a wonderful place to start with those redirected funds.
{~hehehe}
Incrementally, "The Wall" must come down.
...in the same way it went up.
Just relegate 'em to doing what it is they were meant to do in the first place.
Not the role of "Social Arbitrators" they've liked to *feature* themselves as; &, as such?
Strategically positioned themselves to become.
...restrict the NEA to collective bargaining teacher contracts; period.
I feel the same way! Add the Biased Left Wing Media to your list. After all without them the socialist would have gotten nowhere in America.
Dan Rather has hurt America more than any other terrorist organization.
You're absolutely right about that.
Bump.
The mission of the NEA is to destroy the nation's young. And, they are doing a fair job at it.
You cannot reform this beast. You can only kill it.
Well if the NEA influence would stop there, that would be great. However, we both know that the NEA will jump in and defend any incompetent,abusive,Socialist @$$ hole in the public school system.
Well...that'd be very true, Mr. Myers; if, it were reform I sought.
~It's not.
I seek a slow death for this bunch; &, for my tastes?
The slower, the better.
I'd never, ever dare risk making a, "Labor-Martyr" outa the NEA (or any other union thugs).
The Liberal-Socialists would *love* to have such an issue to rally their union constituency around; and, use as a club to beat us over the heads with!!
~Again.
No way Jose'.
Methinks the Right has handed the Liberal-Socialists wayyyyy too many war victories on a silver platter, as it is.
Let 'em work for this & all other of their Leftist *causes* from this time on.
That'll have the net-result of guarenteeing their extinction just that much faster.
But...
I would be all-for detoothing 'em.
~The mere thought of detoothin' the NEA using existing law(s)?
Just makes it all the more sweeter for a guy like me; 'cuz, you have to remember...many of those existing laws that're finally being enforced?
Were written by you-know-who; uh-huh, their pro-union 'Rat buddies.
Yea-yea; a wedge is, as a wedge does *they* say, eh?
...with everything depending on whose base that wedge is splitting. ;^)
I had never heard of the NEA when my kids were still in public school. I also wager that many tax-paying Americans are still unaware of the influence that this BEAST has on the education of their children.
I have such a deep and abiding hatred of the public school system, I can barely speak rationally on the subject.
Wow.
If people only knew you, better?
They might come to understand how big a statement that really is.
A nicer, more rational person would be mighty hard to find these days.
Not to worry about this outfit, though; as the NEA's gonna collapse under it's own weight.
Why?
Because they're not getting "The Job" done!
The buck stops with them when the subject comes to whether or not the li'l brats are learning anything a'tall.
As it stands now?
Questions -- legitimate questions -- are being asked if the *students* upon graduation have learned anything of any value whatsoever vs. the HUGE $$s the txpayers are asked to shell out?
A *bad*, & long overdue omen for that outfit; and, the misfit-disasters they've fostered into & played a key role in protecting/maintaining the once respectable profession of, "Teaching."
...& just remember; you heard that here, first. ;^)
I pray that you are right. It's not just about "the children" it's the future of our nation at stake here.
...me too.
Well, the people who run the system are not nice people.
The problem with this approach is the damage they can do while they are dying your slow death.
"I would be all-for detoothing 'em."
They still have gums.
HA!!
Yea...
I suppose they will, at that.
But Don?
The *Good News* is that we have the teeth now, eh?
I mean: did'cha ever think we'd grow us a set?
We really oughta take a lesson from our reptilian *friend*, the Boa Constrictor?
Learn to constrict with every exhale our enemies make.
Until finally one day?
Our enemies are no longer able to breath a'tall.
...then, the NEA et al will be dead, dead, dead; forevermore.
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