A Union Dues Rebellion in Chicago – Wall Street Journal

imageUnion leaders like to pitch “solidarity” among their members, but it’s often a political fiction. So it was last week when the rank-and-file of the ChicagoTeachers Union rejected a union ballot question seeking a dues increase. Take that, comrade.
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Joe
2 months ago

20% of Union dues is actually used for Union grievances. The rest,80%, is decided by the board to spend in salaries, administrative costs and POLITICAL DONATIONS!!!

Fed Up Taxpayer
2 months ago

So they don’t want to pay for all their freebies. Ironic.

Fred’s Ghost
2 months ago

Most Unions today take a percentage of the union workers hourly wage like 2 or 3 percent this way there’s no need to continually ask members to raise dues every raise the dues go up CTU must be the same thing so CTU must have been asking for a Hefty Raise

2 months ago

“The month-long window for CTU members to opt out of the union opens in August.” The article does not tell us what percentage of teachers have already, in prior years, opted out of the Union, and how they were treated.

David F
2 months ago

Some law firm should start a service that provides teachers legal protection if sued, this is the only reason most stay in the union. There’s a fortune to be made.

Hello, Indiana!
2 months ago

Teachers Unions are strongest in several blue states. Many other states teachers unions, its members fed up with left wing politics and Marxist ideology, are jumping ship left and right. Would that we have teachers whose first priority is education, not illegals rights, trans rights, reparations, etc.

Call my shrink
2 months ago

This whole situation reminds me of the book Animal Farm. Where all are equal,yet some more equal than others

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