Monday, October 13, 2014

Teachers say partisan politics, costs and lack of choice convinced them to leave Wisconsin union

Teachers say partisan politics, costs and lack of choice convinced them to leave Wisconsin union - EAGnews.org:
"The new law also limits union collective bargaining primarily to wages, which cannot increase faster than the consumer price index.
The result has been a mass exodus of educators from union rolls. 
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that “after Act 10, WEAC has lost about a third of its approximately 98,000 members and AFT- Wisconsin (another teachers union) is down to about 6,500 members from its peak of approximately 16,000.
At the same time, membership in professional teacher organizations has steadily increased in Wisconsin, according to Kristi Lacroix, the state’s chief recruiter for the Association of American Educators, which provides liability insurance and other benefits for school employees at a fraction of the cost of union dues."

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