Five years ago Tuesday, the Supreme Court reaffirmed every teacher’s First Amendment right to make their own decision on union membership in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.
Yet they’re still finding themselves trapped in their unions. They need to demand changes from their lawmakers to ensure their rights.
The Janus ruling gave all public employees the right to opt out of their unions and stop paying dues.
But unions don’t want to lose those dues, so they try to keep members from quitting.
Teachers unions have made themselves among the hardest to quit.
If teachers want the benefits Unions negotiate for them such as good pay, health benefits, paid days off, summer vacations, etc, they should want to be Union members.
9:05 pm – Not really.
I teach and I do not belong to the Association (it’s not a union; that’s up north). When I was hired the WCEA rep was all over me in our building, and I politely declined. This song and dance went on for a few months, until I was just outright shunned buy the others except in situations where they had to interact with me in meetings.
The truth is, I loved it. A bunch of babies who get their little feelings hurt over the slightest offense, not to mention their constant gossiping and otherwise busybody behaviors avoiding me. Yea, me!
Now, I walk in, do my job with no grief at all, and walk out at the end of the day. It’s driving them nuts as they can do nothing about it. I see why teachers have a bad name locally when they act like this, but when I signed my contract it was to instruct students, not kowtow to the association.