… 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 …
… would probably be more if the MEA had not worked out a scheme … payouts when they retire. The MEA reimburses the school districts … unfunded liability in the MEA’s own retirement system suggests … underfunding. In its annual audit, the MEA said it provides a defined benefit … virtually all of its employees. The MEA also offers a 401(k)-type plan …
… new issue of Michigan Education Digest is now available. Topics include charter public school success, Flint’s self-created overspending crisis and MEA politics.
… losing members. The Michigan Education Association (MEA) had spent those two years erecting obstacles to … annual reports with the federal government, and the MEA’s most recent one was released this week. It reveals … have left the union in the two years since the MEA said it expected no further declines. That’s nearly …
… Compliance and Accountability Committee regarding the MEA’s failure to allow members to resign as per their … she didn’t want me to get into trouble with the MEA,” Amy Breza, a paraeducator from Clarkston, told … behalf of eight public school employees against the MEA.
… filed unfair labor practice complaints against the Michigan Education Association. The clients feel they are being bullied and intimidated by the MEA for attempting to exercise their worker freedom rights.
… inform teachers of their options, the Center has created www.Augustoptout.org, a website that includes testimonials from teachers who have left the MEA and a sample form letter that teachers can use to resign from the union.
… right-to-work, but she wants to explore her First Amendment rights into become in agency fee payer immediately,” MCLF Director Patrick J. Wright said. The MEA’s bylaw forcing members to only resign in August “is trampling all over her freedom of association.”
… school employees union is required to file with the federal Department of Labor. Olson’s investigation of the document found that while the number of MEA members in Michigan is going down, the union is collecting more revenues but spending less time representing its members compared to 2005. The interview …
