While abortionabortionabortion was the lure which attracted "suburban women" to the heavy-drinking extreme leftist Protasiewicz in the last SCOWI race*, the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC)--an NEA affiliate--had a vital interest, too.
The National Education Association (NEA), the national teacher union affiliate to whom Minnesota [and most Wisconsin] educator union members pay dues, is also down members....
...Just nine percent of NEA’s spending was on teacher representation, “which should be its core focus. Its spending on politics and other contributions is more than four times higher than its spending on representation,”...
As of 2018, WEAC membership was down to 32,000+ members; pre- Act 10, it was over 98,000. Maybe the teachers figured out that they were being ripped off by Union leadership who spent only 9% of the dues on actually representing teachers.
But WEAC isn't the only union in crisis mode. AFSCME, which represents public workers who are NOT teachers, has a similar problem:
...Since Act 10 was enacted in 2011, participation in public sector union membership has dropped significantly.
From 1984 to 2011, between 45 percent and 60 percent of public sector employees belonged to a union, according to a Wisconsin Policy Forum report.
But by 2020, just 22 percent of the state’s public employees were union members. ...
FYI, until 1960 or so, public-sector unions were NOT LEGAL.
*Kelly was a lousy candidate. But at least he understood the term "Constitutional."
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Public sector unions were first formed in 1893. AFSCME was officially recognized in 1932.
Also since 2011, average income is down, but poverty levels are up.
You're welcome for the corrections.
K. Public-Sector Unions were not legal EVERYWHERE until mid-20thC.
And "poverty level" is a number which is made up by--guess who?--public sector union members posing as public "servants.". You ain't poor if you have a cellphone and 50" TeeVee.
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