Posted on 10/17/2024 12:53:02 PM PDT by DFG
A union representing roughly 1.8 million teachers and other educational workers used taxpayer-funded dues to book a trip to a famous casino and to pay for meals at luxury restaurants.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) spent over $370,000 on expenses at Caesars Palace, a luxury hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, disclosure forms show. In addition, the AFT also used dues collected from its members to help pay for trips to Europe and South America, as well as to pay off five-figure tabs at upscale restaurants.
“My suspicion is that this is a case of ‘rank hath its privileges,'” Capital Research Center research director Michael Watson, an expert on organized labor, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “If you are one of the union officers or delegates who has shown loyalty to the union, who has served the union’s interests, they will fly you out, you get to go to the big convention, you get to clap as people give speeches, say how much you support Randi Weingarten and you get these rewards. Of course, it’s coming out of the dues checks of working teachers.”
Randi Weingarten, who heads the AFT, took home a salary of roughly half a million dollars between July 2023 and June 2024, according to the union’s most recent disclosure. Nearly all of AFT’s income during this period came from per capita tax fees collected from its regional affiliates. These fees paid by local unions are, in turn, funded by dues from public school teachers and other educational workers.
The bulk of the AFT’s spending at Caesars Palace is marked as meeting expenses, with an additional couple thousand dollars in “non-itemized transactions,” according to the disclosure forms.
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I was an involuntary member of the AFT for decades - union membership was mandatory for teacher employment at the time.
And never once was I able to vote for my state or national leaders. These people are all chosen at conventions by hand-picked delegates.
The AFT constantly preaches democracy. But they run their elections exactly as Stalin would.
Side comment: A group of us teachers got so frustrated by this that we went to see a labor lawyer. He was sympathetic, but told us not to waste our money. As long as the union charter was followed there was nothing we could do.
Teachers Unions are one of the most anti-democratic and dangerous institutions of the western world. The national teachers union of Mexico is more powerful than any of their drug cartels. Lyndon Johnson basically slipped a noose around America’s neck by federalizing education.
Every penny spent on fancy meals and hotels is that much less to spend on politics. I urge them to spend their dues on a Dom Perignon champagne fountain at their headquarters.
Well yeah! Gotta spend it in something. Right randee.
We know a couple of teachers. The female entity is all in on the social justice/drag show/abortion/dei crap. But she’s from chicongo originally so...... 😵
Just remember, (it’s for the kids)
Along with impoverishment of minorities.
Big deal!
Companies, universities, federal & state governments, churches, etc. all to the same thing...
Isn’t that what all union leaders do? Eat high on the hop with union dues while the common folks (teachers and workers) struggle to maintain their lifestyle.
“These same union leaders who criticize the salaries of CEOs earned on average $252,370 in 2016 — nearly $60,000 more than their private-sector counterparts.”
They regard our money as their entitlement.
This misconception is founded in and fostered by the LBJ and subsequent you deserve it programs. The generations of welfare mentality is entrenched and extends from the mailbox to the spread shadow of giverment dei entitled positions.
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