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Professional Teachers or Political Union?

By ADF Alliance Alert

EdNews: "'The big turning point was in the early seventies,' Bailey said. Before that time, the NEA had been more loosely organized, and a teacher could belong to a local organization not affiliated with the national. When the American Federation of Teachers suddenly began drawing members away from the NEA, it took a more assertive approach to organizing. 'The trigger really was what happened to the dues a teacher paid, changing to what was called unified dues. This meant that like it or not, a large portion of your local dues would go to the national teacher union. There were waves of revolt about that."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).