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| Pennsylvania teachers' union accused of ignoring state law -- for four decades |
| 2015-01-16 |
| [FOXNEWS] A law firm representing a Pennsylvania college professor has accused the state teachers union of ignoring for more than four decades a law requiring it to report the use of dues money for political contributions. Its the latest salvo in an ongoing dispute between Mary Trometter, an assistant professor of culinary arts at the Pennsylvania College of Technology, and the Pennsylvania State Education Association and the National Education Association, which in a letter urged her husband to vote for Gov.-elect Tom Wolf. Trometter filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board in November. Her attorney, David Osborne of The Fairness Center, argues that the NEA letter and PSEA publications supporting Wolfs candidacy are illegal under a 1970 state law. The law says unions cannot use organization funds to make contributions in support of a political candidate, and they must report violations to the state within 90 days, he argued. An open-records request, despite PSEAs enormous levels of candidate support over the decades, found no instance in the past 45 years in which the PSEA reported such contributions, Osborne said in a written statement. This is just the latest example of PSEAs flagrant disregard for state law and abuse of union members money, as Mary Trometters experience illustrates, he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 See also INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > 25 SIGNS THAT THE COLLAPSE OF AMERICA IS SPEEDING UP AS SOCIETY ROTS FROM INSIDE OUT. Once again, welcome Amerika to US-led?, Anti-US OWG Globalism, + US "Parity" wid Any Each + All Other Continent-specific/based OWG Global Federal Unions. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-01-16 22:36 |
| #7 Not the least bit tangential. Another statistic of how effective the teachers' unions have been in dumbing down the masses to allow the oligarchy to distance itself through private schools and good universities.. As a note, when my son and daughter were in high school, I went to parents' night and was always amazed that books I read in the 7th and 8th grade were on the reading list for the "honors" program literature classes...Of course the stuff we read in high school, Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice, For Whom the Bells Toll, A Farewell to Arms, East of Eden, and others were nowhere on the radar.... |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2015-01-16 17:22 |
| #6 ...which brings us to this little tangential note. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-16 13:40 |
| #5 Nor can the Teachers Union |
| Posted by: Flong the Rash3578 2015-01-16 09:30 |
| #4 Just another racket system approved by the party who gets 'it's cut' every month. Corruption to the (common) core. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-16 08:29 |
| #3 If the union has to pay a huge fine, it will be charged to the membership... After which a lot of Pennsylvania teachers will be more interested in discontinuing membership, like in Wisconsin and elsewhere. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-01-16 08:12 |
| #2 If the union loses the lawsuit they will have to pay a huge fine... To the democratic national committee. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2015-01-16 07:21 |
| #1 Laws, Pfffft!!! For the little people. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2015-01-16 00:46 |