Family Incomes Decline: Teachers Unions Get Raises
The Daily Herald has a story recently that made me even more upset with the Teachers’ Unions in this and every other school district. The average family has had their salaries decrease 2.3% between 2001 and 2004.
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WASHINGTON — Average incomes after adjusting for inflation fell from 2001 to 2004, and the growth in net worth was the weakest in a decade, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday. The 2001 recession and the bursting of the stock market bubble in 2000 were factors, the Fed’s latest “Survey of Consumer Finances” Comments4 Responses to “Family Incomes Decline: Teachers Unions Get Raises” |
Great post Lennie and Lisa. I am going to share it with the CRAFT group unless you have objections.
Cathy
No problem. Share it all you want.
The teacher’s union is such a tricky topic for me. Being a conservative I am nowhere
near a fan of the NEA but I find myself almost forced to be a member of my local union
in Phoenix, Arizona. My dues keep going up but the way I look at it, I cannot afford not
to have this million dollar insurance policy and free legal help incase I get falsely
accused of something in my classroom.
So I basically find myself caught between trial lawyers and teacher unions – so I go with
the “lesser” of the two evils…hehehe
Nice blog by the way…
Thanks. I can see where you are stuck. The only thing I could suggest is to get more people like yourself organized and starting running for offices in your local organization. You may be able to influence them over time to change their ways. I know there are some conservatvie voice inside the NEA, they just keep getting drowned out. Keep the faith and working toward changing them from the inside.