Being an organizer for the American Federation of Teachers is quite lucrative. What a deal! Public school teachers are forced to pay huge sums of money to the AFT officers (they have no choice), and in return they get fat pensions that are doomed to collapse as taxpayers revolt. Who wins? Not our kids. Not the teachers. Not the taxpayers. The AFT management wins. Always.
If we stripped out all of our money spent on things other than education (union operations, Taj Mahal stadiums, paper-pushers, form-filling admins, lobbyists, etc.), and spent that money on the front line teachers, I bet they'd make a lot more money.
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Of course organizers get paid big bucks. Any organization, your sales staff is always the highest paid usually. And yes, there is so much burecracy it is insane. I have had weeks where I have 11 meetings to go to in addition to teaching planning etc.
I did want to correct one thing. Luckily in Texas we don't have to join. A large number of people I work with aren't members of any union. I belong to a non-union professional organization. The big difference is we allow administrators and the public to be members which is radically different from AFT and the NEA which are almost deliberately antagonistic towards non-teachers.
The system is a sad, sick, broken joke. Everyone knows that. But if you think the UAW has hung onto the public teet decades longer than it should have, you aint seen nothing like our public education system.
FCB is totally right. It is a broken system. Sad thing is, common sense tends to get thrown out the window because all the special interest groups that screwed it up in the 1st place have a tabula rasa to work with. Argh.
I sometimes identify with Eddie Willers to make an Atlas Shrugged reference.
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