MORE Union Funds to Protect the Education Monopoly
The initiative to offer some charter schools as another voluntary education option for families qualified for the ballot.
The union rhetoric of opposition was immediate;
the money machine took a while to get fully revved up. It is cranking out dollars
now.
$250,000 NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
$100,000 WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
$50,000 SEIU WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL
$50,000 WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
$50,000 WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
$20,000 INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS
$10,000 AFT WASHINGTON
$10,000 WASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO
$7,500 AFT WASHINGTON
$5,000 SEIU LOCAL 925
$5,000 SEIU LOCAL 925
$5,000 UFCW LOCAL 21
$5,000 WASHINGTON FEDERATION OF STATE EMPLOYEES
$2,500 JOINT COUNCIL OF TEAMSTERS NO. 28
$1,240 BELLEVUE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
$1,240 WEA - SAMMAMISH UNISERV COUNCIL
$1,000 SNOHOMISH COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL
$1,000 SPOKANE REGIONAL LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO
$1,000 WEA - MIDSTATE
$500 IUOE LOCAL 609
$500 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CO LABOR COUNCIL PUBLIC POLICY INVOLVEMENT FUND
$500 PROF & TECH EMPLOYEES LOCAL 17
$576,980 TOTAL UNION FUNDS
Like an iceberg, the union money which you see reported as an actual contribution masks significantly more resources spent on member re-education, on behalf of the political machine in-house efforts, or sidled to a third party for advocacy.
Remember too, that most union members do not donate to the voluntary Political Action Committee.
Nearly all of the political advocacy conducted by public sector unions like WEA and SEIU is funded from general funds. Funding political activities as a voluntary action is certainly anyone’s right.
Funding political activity because one is required to pay for collective bargaining as a condition of employment is abusive, and artificially amplifies the voice of union officials.
A quarter of a million dollars from the NEA is a lot of money, but in Idaho the NEA is spending up to $1.24 million to oppose collective bargaining and merit pay reforms.
Updated from Sept. 21 post.
$250,000 NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
$100,000 WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
$50,000 SEIU WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL
$50,000 WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
$50,000 WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
$20,000 INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS
$10,000 AFT WASHINGTON
$10,000 WASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO
$7,500 AFT WASHINGTON
$5,000 SEIU LOCAL 925
$5,000 SEIU LOCAL 925
$5,000 UFCW LOCAL 21
$5,000 WASHINGTON FEDERATION OF STATE EMPLOYEES
$2,500 JOINT COUNCIL OF TEAMSTERS NO. 28
$1,240 BELLEVUE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
$1,240 WEA - SAMMAMISH UNISERV COUNCIL
$1,000 SNOHOMISH COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL
$1,000 SPOKANE REGIONAL LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO
$1,000 WEA - MIDSTATE
$500 IUOE LOCAL 609
$500 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CO LABOR COUNCIL PUBLIC POLICY INVOLVEMENT FUND
$500 PROF & TECH EMPLOYEES LOCAL 17
$576,980 TOTAL UNION FUNDS
Like an iceberg, the union money which you see reported as an actual contribution masks significantly more resources spent on member re-education, on behalf of the political machine in-house efforts, or sidled to a third party for advocacy.
Remember too, that most union members do not donate to the voluntary Political Action Committee.
Nearly all of the political advocacy conducted by public sector unions like WEA and SEIU is funded from general funds. Funding political activities as a voluntary action is certainly anyone’s right.
Funding political activity because one is required to pay for collective bargaining as a condition of employment is abusive, and artificially amplifies the voice of union officials.
A quarter of a million dollars from the NEA is a lot of money, but in Idaho the NEA is spending up to $1.24 million to oppose collective bargaining and merit pay reforms.
Updated from Sept. 21 post.
Author
Jami Lund
Education Reform Fellow
SOURCE:
Freedom Foundation, myfreedomfoundation.com, October 30, 2012
COMMENT: Interesting to note how many 'government employee unions' are represented above.
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