If they really are that bad you need to run for union office to get rid of the bums.
read your local contract, your local bylaws or constitution, your national constitution, and roberts rules of order. then show up to the union meetings with your coworkers and stand together for justice and against complacency. if they deny you you contractual rights appeal to the membership. if that doesn’t work appeal all the way up. They don’t like to do paperwork or to stand up against opposition.
They hate to work, make them realize there will be less work to do the right thing.
Force them to have a conscience!
The teacher union is so utterly corrupt that they make the Mafia look like upstanding citizens. The monopoly party, Unity, simply does not allow other parties in the union to speak at assemblies, or gives them the bum’s rush off the dais in just a very few minutes. Their minions do cute things like pull opposition election literature out of teacher mailboxes. The membership is unfortunately infested with a whole lotta lib loons who just go along. They put forward a contract which robs certain members of the union of their due process rights, and the duh members barely looked at the contract before approving it. They were afraid the city would be “mad at them” if they didn’t take the first piece of trash contact waved in their faces, bolstered by the completely corrupt union telling them sign it, sign it, sign it. The “raise” it gives doesn’t even keep up with the cost of living (really!). The retro pay for 2009-11 that we “won” will be meted out in tiny increments until 2020, meaning that people retiring, terminated, resigning, etc. will be robbed of tens of thousands of dollars. No other union in NYC settled for such a horrific contract. Not the firemen, the cops, etc. Only the libtard teachers union, who screwed us all. And, as I said, if you need their assistance, good luck. The phone will ring off the hook, you will get voice mail, messages are hardly EVER returned. And if they’re returned, it’s usually by some part-timer who knows nothing.