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As many of you know, the recent law passed making association dues via payroll deductions for Alabama Education Association a "CRIME" is clearly a "HAIL MARY" attack on the part of our FORMER Gov. Riley! If this is not the case, then why are deductions still allowed to other organizations that belong to the same retirement system as teachers, lunchroom workers, custodians, bus drivers and classroom aides? It seems to be fashionable for our media to print anything negative pertaining to educational workers. As in any profession, there are bad apples. I will attest to the fact that the majority of the folks I work with everyday have a genuine love and concern for the young lives they influence. I choose to remember the days when educators were respected as a profession. The attraction certainly is not $$$$$.....As for charter schools, a quick look into other states that have tried this approach should convince the voters of Alabama it would be a mistake to attempt to fund another school system when we can barely keep the doors open on one!!!!!
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Originally posted by Wondering??:
Dear Opie,
The Alabama Education Association is NOT a union, but I can assure you that unions are NOT the culprit to blame for our economic woes in America. Corporate greed is the problem. And for your information....many of us were not born into this world with that particular genitalia!


Of course they're a union, are you on drugs or something?
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Originally posted by b50m:
It looks like a union.

http://www.myaea.org/myHome.htm


Its a highly evolved union that wields considerable political power. It strips funds from state and federal coffers and funnels it to legislators via the community college system. It ensures that the ineffective, administration heavy K-12 system keeps slackers employed.

Its why we got stuck with a simpleton for a Governor.
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Originally posted by JuanHunt:
Does the AEA represent teachers statewide under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement??? That is the definition of a union.



From Education Week


December 15, 2010
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Alabama Lawmakers, Unions, Spar over Payroll Deductions

Shortly before 3 a.m. this morning, Republicans in the Alabama House of Representatives pushed through a bill that would halt payroll deductions from public employees—including teachers—to their unions' political organizations.

Backers of the measure, such as Republican lawmaker Lynn Greer, argue that it's wrong for taxpayers' money to be used to collect money so that unions can pour it into campaigns.

Alabama Democrats wanted to know: How much money does this process cost taxpayers?

"We know it [costs] something," Greer said, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.

In a statement to its members, the Alabama Education Association, a teachers' union, described the bill as a "mortal threat to our schools, our profession, and our association."

The measure, approved during a special session, would have to be reconciled with a similar proposal approved by Alabama's Senate, before it could become law. Critics say the measure is an attempt to sap the influence of the politically active AEA and other public workers' unions, such as the Alabama State Employees Association.

The AEA's executive director speculated to the Associated Press that the bill is payback for the union backing Republican Gov.-elect Robert Bentley's campaign earlier this year, despite much of the GOP establishment having rallied behind his primary opponent, Bradley Byrne. See an earlier post for background on that entertaining election battle, and reports of AEA's behind-the-scenes work on that front.

My colleague Mark Walsh, our School Law blogger, has written extensively about the legal issues surrounding states' efforts to limit public employees' automatic payroll deductions.

Posted by Sean Cavanagh at 10:16 AM | Permalink | Leave a comment | Recommend
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Originally posted by bamacarl:
Lawyers are members of the American Bar Association, does that make them union members? How about doctors and their associations? They do pay dues to be members.


The AEA represents its members in areas of pay, benefits and conditions of employment, those other organizations don't. Jeez Carl, it's a freakin' Union, OK?

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