The National Education Association passed a resolution during their annual Representative Assembly in Chicago that would allocate thousands of dollars to conduct opposition research on 25 organizations that are supposedly attacking gender identity and sexual orientation freedoms in public schools.
The average teacher earns about $44,000 while their senior level bosses earn about $500,000. This is rubbing some teachers the wrong way.
Not only are teachers being given pay freezes and/or facing layoffs, but they are also supporting union leadership salaries that have increased, 20% last year alone.
Take Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Between 2010 and 2011. Her salary increased to just over $400,000. Or, Dennis Van Roekel, head of the National Education Association (NEA), his pay went to a little over $360,000.
In addition, when you include the stipends and other reimbursed expenses, their real take home pay would be in the order of $493,859 and $460,060 respectively.
The higher pay is not isolated to these two either. An addition, 600 employees at the AFT and NEA take home over $100,000 according to Gary Beckner, the Association of American Educators Executive Director.
When you therefore compare teachers salaries to executives of unions there is about a 10 fold increase.
The relationship with unions, our current economy, Chicago style politics, a mob type environment or mentality has been explained in detail recently by prophet.tv.