July 3, 1998

TEACHERS VOTE OVERWHELMINGLY
TO REJECT UNION'S POLITICS

According to the Washington Education Association’s own newsletter, Action, during this Past year, the number of voluntary contributors to the union’s PAC has fallen another 14 percent— from 11,671 to 10,071. 85 percent of public school teachers in the state of Washington do not want to support the politics of their union leaders.

Perhaps more startling, in what may be the most pro-union school district in the state, more than 96 percent of teachers in the Seattle School District choose not to contribute to the PAC, despite the urging of the high-powered executive director who is paid by the National Education Association to oversee the district.

Furthermore, the statewide decline has occurred despite an internal union campaign that vilifies the efforts of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation to uphold workers’ and teachers’ First Amendment rights.

An overwhelming majority of union-member teachers have now spoken in Washington and are sending one simple message: when given the choice, they choose not to support the union’s politics.

Is it any wonder that labor leaders spent more than $22 million to defeat California’s paycheck protection initiative?

WEA-PAC Membership 1998