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Teacher Choice Gains Steam
posted by: Cindy Omlin | September 28, 2015, 02:16 PM   


It's obvious that teachers are looking for options to the national labor unions for their professional protection and support.  Mike Antonucci, director of the Education Intelligence Agency, reports that in states without compulsory union fees, NEA affiliates lost more than 47,000 active members in 2014 while NEA affiliates in agency fee states gained about 5,300 active members.  Let's look at the numbers in the Northwest.

In Idaho, the Northwest's only right to work state, active teacher union membership declined 5.7% in one year with a decline of 28.5% over the last five years.  Total active membership was 8,320.

In Washington, a compulsory union fee state, active teacher union membership advanced 2.3% in one year with an advance of .2% over five years.  Total active union membership was 80,258.

In Oregon, another compulsory union fee state, active union membership advanced .9% in one year with a decline of -10.4 over five years.  Total active union membership was 38,036.

See Mr. Antonucci's chart of union membership for 2014 here.

Mr. Antonucci believe that these numbers suggest what a post-Friedrichs world will look like, namely, that if a decision in Friedrich's v. California Teacher Association outlaws compulsory union fees, states gaining members through compulsion will experience a great rupture in active membership as teachers take advantage of their right to choose.  

Northwest Professional Educators will be here to help teachers looking for a union alternative association that provides them with professional protection and support without the politics with which they may disagree.

 


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