My next door neighbor is a union teacher. Hates the union and is a good republican. She keeps quiet at school but is one of us when she gets home. Wonder how many of them there are out there?
Well they need to speak up.
Doing nothing, and paying the dues, is the same as being for it.
You would be surprised at just how many there are.
Count my wife in that group, though she is not a teacher, she works for the school ditstrict and is in the same Union. Her silence on this has been such that they (local union leaders) actually approached her to be part of the negotiation team!
That’s where my wife is. She quit the corporate world (she did very well in a corp 500 company) to pursue her first love - teaching. She is not surprised, but constantly amazed at the liberal mindset & frequent pettiness of her union co-workers.
But she must keep a low profile on her conservative views.
Way more than you'd think.
I just retired last month after 25 years teaching in an Alternative High School. When I started, almost everybody was a rank and file dembot that shivered when I'd mention Reagan or G.H.W. Bush. Last year I sort of thought about it before I retired and I'd say that almost half of the staff in our school thought that 0 was nuts and that the dem's were actually anti-American. The staff seemed even more pizzed at the NEA for the way it has come to almost demand your money and more or less tell you how they'll spend it politically for you.
In Illinoisistan, NEA members have the option of having what they call the political portion of your dues returned to you if you request. Over the years I'd informed the staff of this option to the point that the Ill-NEA representative called the school and asked what was happening and decided that from that point each teacher had to request their own refund form from the state office. Last year more than half of our teachers requested the refund.
I feel good about my part in that. Not there yet, but it's much better than it was.
We also have a next door neighbor, a good friend and our daughter who are teachers and they all told the unions to take a leap.
My wife also. It is very USSR like in terms of ‘thought diversity” amonst the hard core union supporters
My wife also. It is very USSR like in terms of ‘thought diversity” amonst the hard core union supporters