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The problem with union leaders is that they most want MORE for themselves. The NEA, for instance, has dozens of employees who make more than $200,000 a year. A doubt that one teacher in ten thousamd knows how much this teacher union pays in employee benefits. Our school once had a visit from one of these organizers. She came dressed modestly and in an inexpensive rental care and was very friendly with an old friend of hers who worked on our faculty. I was the union rep at the school and later I commented on how well the organizer had done for herself and was mildly complaining about how much such persons ewere paid. Her teacher friend smiled as if to say, Well. you are just jealous. So I asked her how much she thought the organizers was being paid. She gave some figure under $100,000. When I told her the more likely amount, she was absolutely STUNNED!
But then she composed herself and suggested I must be mistaken. Hard for a senior teacher earning $50 grand a year to accept.