NEA Sent Me a Survey....Yes Indeed I Completed It!

[SweetSue92]

Happy to tell them exactly WHY I don't belong and have not for several years.

They are a political front, plain and simple, as cited in the article below. Just 9% of their spending goes toward supporting teachers. The rest is political. NOPE, I'm out! And I'm not alone: their numbers have fallen by nearly half a million in the last several years. OOPSIE, couldn't happen to a better organization!

National Education Association sees teacher exodus as political spending balloons

NEA has lost nearly 400,000 members since its peak in 2009. It could be because just 9% of the union’s spending is on representing teachers – with the rest on politics, administration and other union leader priorities.

www.illinoispolicy.org

 

[1srelluc]

NEA really is the devil.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

NEA really is the devil.

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My late hubby taught way back in the late 70's, and he despised them even back then!

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[braalian]

Happy to tell them exactly WHY I don't belong and have not for several years.

They are a political front, plain and simple, as cited in the article below. Just 9% of their spending goes toward supporting teachers. The rest is political. NOPE, I'm out! And I'm not alone: their numbers have fallen by nearly half a million in the last several years. OOPSIE, couldn't happen to a better organization!

National Education Association sees teacher exodus as political spending balloons

NEA has lost nearly 400,000 members since its peak in 2009. It could be because just 9% of the union’s spending is on representing teachers – with the rest on politics, administration and other union leader priorities.

www.illinoispolicy.org

Being hesitant to complain about your profession is something I’m sure no one has ever accused you of. You make your position the subject abundantly clear daily

 

[80zephyr]

Being hesitant to complain about your profession is something I’m sure no one has ever accused you of. You make your position the subject abundantly clear daily

Under the circumstances, I would do the same as she is.

 

[braalian]

Under the circumstances, I would do the same as she is.

Yeah, but we get it already. She needs to give it a rest

 

[odanny]

Being hesitant to complain about your profession is something I’m sure no one has ever accused you of. You make your position the subject abundantly clear daily

Anonymously.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Being hesitant to complain about your profession is something I’m sure no one has ever accused you of. You make your position the subject abundantly clear daily

The union is not the teaching profession. Unions are a necessary evil.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Yeah, but we get it already. She needs to give it a rest

Who pissed in your cornflakes?

 

[martybegan]

The union is not the teaching profession. Unions are a necessary evil.

Public Sector unions should not exist.

Private sector unions are not an evil at all.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Public Sector unions should not exist.

Private sector unions are not an evil at all.

Teachers will not enjoy working in a job where they are subject to the whims of politicians and administrators without a guarantee of due process. I have been on both sides of the issue, and I can tell you several instances where the union saved my ass from corrupt administrators. That was one of the main reasons I became an administrator, only to be a victim of my principal being corrupt.

Teachers' unions rarely have the ability to strike, which makes them toothless tigers, so you have nothing to fear from them.

 

[martybegan]

Teachers will not enjoy working in a job where they are subject to the whims of politicians and administrators without a guarantee of due process. I have been on both sides of the issue, and I can tell you several instances where the union saved my ass from corrupt administrators. That was one of the main reasons I became an administrator, only to be a victim of my principal being corrupt.

Teachers' unions rarely have the ability to strike, which makes them toothless tigers, so you have nothing to fear from them.

The problem is when they become powerful voting blocs like in NYC, LA and Chicago and can dictate terms to the politicians that are supposed to be negotiating for the citizens of the city, not the unions.

They should have civil service protections, but not unions that can negotiate work rules or compensation.

 

[toobfreak]

Happy to tell them exactly WHY I don't belong and have not for several years.

So, you're the reason Becky Pringle had to settle for silver instead of gold plating on her tub faucets!

They are a political front, plain and simple, as cited in the article below.

They are exactly like all democrat-run organizations. No matter what they SAY they are for, all they do is gather money from the uninitiated in order to launder over onto advancing leftwing causes. And of course, to make a few of them running the show stinky rich.

I'm not at all surprised that a big fast whopping contribution was made to support Kamala Harris.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The problem is when they become powerful voting blocs like in NYC, LA and Chicago and can dictate terms to the politicians that are supposed to be negotiating for the citizens of the city, not the unions.

They should have civil service protections, but not unions that can negotiate work rules or compensation.

They all have the right to strike. Most don't. Why do you think the media focuses on labor disputes with teachers in those cities and states? It's because no one else can strike anywhere else in the US!

That is the entire purpose of a union. Surely you know that! As I stated, most unions have no right to strike and therefore no rights to negotiate anything in reality. Compensation has always been in the power of the school districts because they can either give you a raise or tell you to suck it up! Many times, I was given pay increases below the rate of inflation, often as low as 1%.

Working conditions are really important to prevent burnout. Do you have to eat lunch with your coworkers or subordinates to make sure they don't hurt one another? Are you allowed to go the restroom during your workday? Does your boss require you to work all day and then spend the evenings meeting with your customers on quality control issues for no pay? Do you have to attend training on Saturday or during the evening with no compensation? How about mandatory training during your personal time off? (As an example, remember that 3 month vacation that teachers are always claimed to have? Why do they always mention the week after school is out and the two weeks of mandatory, unpaid training during that time off, usually right in the middle?)

 

[Robert W]

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My late hubby taught way back in the late 70's, and he despised them even back then!

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Unions present workers with problems such as when the union has all the power, it is essentially operating as the government of the USA.

 

[Robert W]

Happy to tell them exactly WHY I don't belong and have not for several years.

They are a political front, plain and simple, as cited in the article below. Just 9% of their spending goes toward supporting teachers. The rest is political. NOPE, I'm out! And I'm not alone: their numbers have fallen by nearly half a million in the last several years. OOPSIE, couldn't happen to a better organization!

National Education Association sees teacher exodus as political spending balloons

NEA has lost nearly 400,000 members since its peak in 2009. It could be because just 9% of the union’s spending is on representing teachers – with the rest on politics, administration and other union leader priorities.

www.illinoispolicy.org

The National Education Association’s own federal reports show the union is not focused on teachers.

NEA continued losing members in 2024, according to its federal report filed with the U.S. Department of Labor at the end of November. Losing 17,895 members in the 2024 fiscal year alone, the union’s membership has dropped by 395,327 education workers since its peak in 2009. That’s more than a 12% drop.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Unions present workers with problems such as when the union has all the power, it is essentially operating as the government of the USA.

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I imagine that's close to how my hubby felt.

May he Rest in Peace, he'd be rolling in his grave if he saw what "teachers" are getting away with these days.

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[Robert W]

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I imagine that's close to how my hubby felt.

May he Rest in Peace, he'd be rolling in his grave if he saw what "teachers" are getting away with these days.

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Democrats so love unions that they forget the public uses unions and the Democrats failure is the unions strip Democrats of their power over the public.

 

[80zephyr]

They all have the right to strike. Most don't. Why do you think the media focuses on labor disputes with teachers in those cities and states? It's because no one else can strike anywhere else in the US!

That is the entire purpose of a union. Surely you know that! As I stated, most unions have no right to strike and therefore no rights to negotiate anything in reality. Compensation has always been in the power of the school districts because they can either give you a raise or tell you to suck it up! Many times, I was given pay increases below the rate of inflation, often as low as 1%.

Working conditions are really important to prevent burnout. Do you have to eat lunch with your coworkers or subordinates to make sure they don't hurt one another? Are you allowed to go the restroom during your workday? Does your boss require you to work all day and then spend the evenings meeting with your customers on quality control issues for no pay? Do you have to attend training on Saturday or during the evening with no compensation? How about mandatory training during your personal time off? (As an example, remember that 3 month vacation that teachers are always claimed to have? Why do they always mention the week after school is out and the two weeks of mandatory, unpaid training during that time off, usually right in the middle?)

Unpaid training is required by a lot of occupations now.

 

[initforme]

A bunch of peoplr here want teachers to have zero representation and to work for $15 per hour. They feel entitled to cut and gut anything a good teacher has. Says something about yhis nstion.