Posted on 05/08/2011 2:02:47 PM PDT by NoLibZone
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Members of Ohio's largest teachers' union have agreed to a one-time, $54 dues increase to pay for the fight against Ohio's new collective bargaining law.
A spokeswoman for the Ohio Education Association says 111,000 active union members would pay the extra dollars under a proposal overwhelmingly approved Friday. School support staff would pay $25. Student and retired members were exempted.
The dues change could mean an additional $5.5 million for the union.
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At least this time they are only taxing themselves.
Agreed. Let these overpaid clowns tax themselves to poverty.
What would these communist unions do without useful idiots?
But they’re suing the taxpayers so, Ohioans will be footing a legal bill.
Or is this the dictate of the Comintern?
I bet they are paying for their own students to show up to their astro turf protests too.
It’s nice to know somebody in the Ubama economy has money to throw down the toilet. Whodda thunk it would be “teachers”. Supposedly, they’re underpaid.
The Teacher’s Union in Wisconsin pulled the same thing to put money into the 2010 election. I don’t know how it came about but I know that some friends of mine (teachers) were furious about the involuntary donation. If there was a vote, it wasn’t unanimous and, from what I got out of it, there was no vote by the rank and file teachers- it was a purely union personnel decision.
Excellent opportunity for some lawyer to sue the union.
They're not suing; they're collecting signatures for a repeal referendum. The $54 will go toward advertising and associated campaign costs.
They're wasting their time and money; although the general public has been fairly quiet, it's evident by the reaction seen here that very few non-union people support these leeches.
In my Ohio school district, a 20 year teacher makes $83,000 a year with three months off.
Last Tuesday we laid 51 of them off when we voted down their levy 61%-39%.
Felt good.
Heh. I hope they bleed themselves white.
I wish the people fighting against the unions would do a better job of delivering the message that unions aren’t about the right of people to freely associate or bargain collectively—they’re about giving some 51% of the people who happen to work in a plant the power to deny everyone else (the other 49% of current employees, and all prospective/future employees) the freedom to work on whatever terms they see fit, without needing permission from the 51%.
Unions using taxpayer dollars to extort more money from the taxpayer.
They are insane. The Union has done more to icrease the salaries and perks of administrators than those of teachers. Then when layooffs come, the administrators save their own jobs by firing the most vulnerable teachers.
One result being that the math teacher with a degree in the field gets paid less than the coach who teaches on the side. How many teachers know that a successull coach can negotiaqte some thing like his real value to the system and the math teacher cannot. Rather than deal with him/her, they will less much less qualified people take his/her classes. You see, control is what they want, and to heck with the mission. Yoiu see in theory, the teacher has no say in who, what or how he/she teaches. He/she has less authority than the schooljanitor, who beloings to a stronger union.
a one-time, $54 dues increase to pay for the fight against Ohio’s new collective bargaining law.
Suckers, you being taken by the union you support. Stupid is as stupid does.
Soooo the union is going to steal more money so the union can continue to steal more money.
It's a well oiled machine.
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