… “August Window” is illegal, the MEA should not file future collections … Commission essentially said that the MEA illegally chose power over principles, … resigned outside of August.” The MEA will likely appeal the case. … employees represented by the MEA who desire to opt out may still want to send the MEA an opt-out letter in August …
… Cook's comment is a reference to the private, for-profit companies that manage charter public schools. Cook made $212,848 in 2013 as president of the MEA, a private organization with annual revenues of $133 million.
… hear an appeal related to the MEA’s attempt to reinstate its “August … limitation was illegal. “The MEA’s efforts to limit school employees’ … case. “Unfortunately, the MEA’s campaign has caused significant … agency or court because of the MEA’s hardline tactics.” From 2014 to 2016, the MEA received $241,977 from a collections …
… unions and the Michigan Education Association over the refusal by the unions to allow the educators to exercise their worker freedom rights. The MEA's insistence that its bylaws trump Michigan's right-to-work law have also been the subject of recent hearings before a special committee in the Michigan …
… Lansing recently. Labor Policy Director F. Vincent Vernuccio discussed the MEA’s so-called “August window” and how teachers can opt out of the union, particularly those who the MEA has sent to collections agencies. Vernuccio also discussed the matter on …
The latest version of Michigan Education Digest is available at https://www.mackinac.org/20378. Topics include how teachers can resign from the MEA, the overspending crisis in the Benton Harbor school district and support for a new charter public school in Jackson.
… new issue of Michigan Education Digest is now available. Topics include charter public school success, Flint’s self-created overspending crisis and MEA politics.
… them at the bargaining table. Still, no private organization should have to provide benefits to people who aren’t paying for them. But a look at the MEA’s just-released financial reports shows it is the union that is freeloading off of dues-paying members. According to the organization’s LM-2 form, just …
… ruling the August Window illegal. The MEA is expected to appeal this decision … the initial ruling last year, but the MEA appealed. The Michigan Employment Relations … upheld that decision today.… "The MEA should stop trying to ruin teachers' … those who do not want to be part of the MEA," Patrick Wright, director of the Mackinac …
… Association’s new president, Paula Herbart: The MEA wrote: “In Utica, where teachers are working without … $7,214 per student this year, not $7,845. The MEA wrote: “Grand Rapids school employees questioned … are 294. That’s not “exponential growth.” The MEA wrote: “It [charter schools] also leads to stagnant …
