Union Dues of Teachers at Crystal Lake High School District

Illinois Education Association endorsements in 32nd State Senate District.

What do teachers at Crystal Lake High School District 155 paid in dues to the Illinois Education Association?

That’s a question that popped into my mind for some reason.

The answer:

D155 Education Association Monthly Dues – IEA

  • Full Time Employee – $73.40
  • Part Time Employee (.50 FTE to .99 FTE) – $39.36

Union dues for teachers and support staff are collected from September 15 through June 30.
And, speaking of teachers, to the right you can see who has been endorsed in this fall’s election.

All Democrats at the state level.

No surprise there.

In the 32nd State Senate district, where appointed State Senator Cfaig Wilcox is challenged by McHenry Township Assessor Mary Mahady, she is, of course, endorsed.

Trisha Zubert

Unendorsed is the Democrat running for State Representative against newcomer Tom Weber.

Trisha Zubert has apparently been left out in the cold.


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Union Dues of Teachers at Crystal Lake High School District — 15 Comments

  1. “That’s a question that popped into my mind for some reason.” Isn’t it fascinating to travel inside the mind of an irrelevant blogger? Stay tuned…3 days…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock…

  2. Teachers pay dues to the national, state, and local association.

    So be sure to ask the dues paid to the National Education Association (NEA).

    And the dues paid to the High School District 155 Education Association, IEA-NEA.

    To get a complete understanding of the amount of dues paid by a teacher to teacher unions.

  3. Mahady is part of the LGBTQ agenda, getting big money from militant activists like her brother in Washington, DC.

    So naturally local teachers (brainwashers) would back Mahady, too.Sniper

  4. **Teachers pay dues to the national, state, and local association.**

    That’s… not true.

    At all.

    But good to see you back and once again spouting things you know nothing about.

    Teachers pay dues to their local union.

    Their local union then pays dues to the state and/or national unions.

    Separate dues are NOT taken out of a teacher’s paycheck for each of those.

  5. Taxpayers who work in the private sector, or are retired from private sector jobs, indirectly fund big unions and big union bosses. This occurs when unionized teachers who are funded by taxpayers – home real estate taxes, state and federal taxes – use part of their salaries to pay into unions. In the case of Crystal Lake District 155, taxpayers fund $880 per year for each unionized teacher.

  6. bred – that’s just BS. When an employee receives a salary, that money is the employee’s. The taxpayers/state don’t own that money in any way.

    Would you also claim that taxpayers indirectly fund wal-mart shareholders because teachers sometimes shop at wal-mart?

  7. Full time teacher union dues from FOIA response are $73.40 per month x 12 months = $880.

    $880 is if the teachers are on a 12 month pay schedule.

    So that is probably local, state, and national dues combined.

    The member teachers belong to the local, state and national affiliates.

    Most unions have a chart (the school district might also have it) which indicates the break-down annually to the local, state, and national affiliates…that’s the easiest way to understand how much teachers pay to all three affiliates.

    The chart appears something like this (fictitious figures to equal $880 per year):

    Full Time (using fictitious figures to arrive at $880 to illustrate a point):
    NEA – $223
    IEA – $557
    HSD 155 EA – $100
    Total – $880

    The point being, IEA gets the most, followed by NEA, and the local gets the least.

    In terms of cash flow, the school district might only send one check to one affiliate (instead of three checks to three affiliates).

    The one affiliate would route payments to the other two affiliates.

    That does seem to be the case in CHSD 155.

    For instance, the district’s vendor payments over $2,500 on the Annual Statement of Affairs (ASA) from the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) lists payments to only one of the three affiliates in any given year, that being, the Illinois Education Assn or the District #155 Educ.Assn.

    2007 – $17,224 (unknown as to why the amount is so low)

    2008 – blank

    2009 – unreadable embedded document

    2010 – unreadable embedded document

    2011 – unreadable embedded document

    2012 – unreadable embedded document

    2013 – $305,889 Illinois Education Assn

    2014 – $309,857 Illinois Education Assn

    2015 – $288,742 District #155 Educ.Assn.

    2016 – $339,492 District #155 Educ.Assn.

    2017 – Unknown. Payment is under neither of the above vendor names.

    So in summary the members belong to three affiliates, and it seems the school district sends a check to one of those three affiliates, who routes payment to the other two.

  8. Taxpayers indirectly fund big public sector unions and big union bosses.

    The flow of money is from taxpayer to school district to employee (it’s the employee’s money) to union to union boss.

    There is a big difference between a public monopoly school district and Wal-Mart.

    Taxpayers don’t have to move to spend dollars at a different discount store.

    What if there were public discount store districts, funded by taxpayers, and to make use of those dollars, you had to shop at a discount store in that district.

    The labor laws for the pubic sector discount store would fall under the IPLRA.

    As it is, a parcel owner can move to a parcel in a different school district, but that’s just moving to a different monopoly school district.

    It’s a much more arduous endeavor to move one’s residence to change the destination of school district property tax dollars, than to drive to a different discount store.

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    With the US Supreme Court decision of Janus v AFSCME Council 31 on June 27, 2018, public sector workers nationwide can now opt of the union, and in doing so, will no longer be required to pay any fees to the union.

    This puts state and local nationwide in line with Federal, which already had that choice.

    State and local public sector workers can contact their union local, employer, the National Right to Work Foundation, and the American Association of Educators (AAE) for details on how to opt out.

    Each union local has its own opt out rules, often a narrow window of opportunity annually.

    Teachers opting out can obtain liability insurance from AAE.

  9. Union membership is down about 40 percent in Wisconsin since 2011 for public sector employees such as teachers.

  10. **It seems the school district sends a check to one of those three affiliates, who routes payment to the other two.**

    Right… which is… exactly what I already said?

    **There is a big difference between a public monopoly school district and Wal-Mart.**

    Not really. At least not in relation to this discussion. Your rambling after this sentence doesn’t change the fact that taxpayers don’t fund unions. Union members – especially after Janus – fund unions. What union members/employees choose to do with their wages is their choice, not the taxpayers.

  11. Taxpayers indirectly fund unions.

    Bred Winner and I already covered that.

    Public sector union jobs and monopoly school districts don’t exist without taxpayers.

    You were initially bothered by, or pretending to be bothered by, was me saying that teachers pay dues to the national, state, and local association.

    That was also covered above.

    It is very well understood that teachers are members of, and pay dues to, all three union affiliates (local, state, national).

    To claim the teachers don’t pay 2 of the 3 affiliates, because the money goes to one affiliate, who then diverts the money to the other 2 affiliates, is talking about the flow of the money.

    But regardless that’s why I mentioned the best way to understand is to get the chart that shows annually how much a teacher pays local, state, and Federal union affiliates.

    The idea there is not a big difference between a public monopoly school district and Wal-Mart is absurd.

    You are the one who brought up Wal-Mart, in your attempt to discredit that taxpayers indirectly fund unions and union bosses, and now you say Wal-Mart is irrelevant.

    Once again, before the Janus decision, state and local public sector workers were forced to pay fees to a union, even if they didn’t want to belong to the union.

    That was not the case with Federal public sector workers.

    The US Supreme Court found forcing state and local public sector workers to pay fees to a union to which they don’t want to belong was unconstitutional in Janus v AFSCME Council 31.

    Prior to that Janus decision, those state and local public sector workers in Illinois did not have a choice to opt out of all union fees.

    Now state and local public sector workers have a choice to opt out of paying mandatory fees to a union as a condition of employment.

    But the union gets to set the opt out rules….so the worker does not get a choice 365 days of the year in most cases of when to opt out….most unions have designated certain days in the year when the worker can opt out.

    So what are the opt out rules in all the covered union locals in McHenry County and the rest of the state and country….would be nice if the unions publicly posted them somewhere publicly so the workers have easy access.

    Taxpayers don’t have a choice of whether or not to send property tax dollars to the school district though…that is forced upon taxpayers no matter where the taxpayer lives in Illinois.

    Contrast the monopoly school district to Wal-Mart.

    Wal-Mart is not a monopoly.

    The taxpayer can go to any Wal-Mart, another discount store, shop online, etc.

    That’s choice.

    What if there was not choice?

    Imagine if taxpayers were forced to pay property tax dollars to a discount store district…a new unit of government which was another line item on the property tax bill.

    And to make use of those dollars, you had to go to the discount store in your district.

    That illustrates one of the vast differences between Wal-mart (choice) and the local public school district (no choice).

    And yes taxpayers indirectly fund public sector unions.

    The property taxpayer has no choice but to pay property taxes to the school district.

    Follow the money ball from the school district, to the employee dues deduction which the school district sends to a union affiliate, who in turn sends a portion to two other union affiliates.

    The monopoly status of the school district on property tax dollars is integral to understanding how taxpayers indirectly fund public sector unions.

  12. History of Government Collective Bargaining

    Unions Once Rejected: Early labor leaders didn’t believe unions belonged in government. In 1955, George Meany, then-president of the AFL-CIO, said: “It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.” In 1959 the AFL-CIO Executive Council declared, “In terms of accepted collective bargaining procedures, government workers have no right beyond the authority to petition Congress—a right available to every citizen.”

    FDR: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) gave unions extensive powers to bargain collectively in the private sector but excluded them from government. FDR believed collective bargaining had no place in public service and that a government strike was “unthinkable and intolerable.”

    A Change of Heart: Union membership peaked in the private sector in the 1950s. Unions came to see government employees as valuable new dues-paying members. Some states, like VA and NC, still do not negotiate public spending with government unions. 52% of union members in the U.S. now work for a government.
    Public-Sector Union Workers Outnumber Private-Sector Union Workers

  13. **It is very well understood that teachers are members of, and pay dues to, all three union affiliates (local, state, national).**

    Of course, I never denied otherwise. But your original comment was that Cal should be asking what dues get paid by the school district to each union, and that is just inaccurate. Teachers pay dues to one union. Then that union pays dues to the other unions they are affiliated with. What “bothered” me is you pretending to have a clue about what you’re talking about.

    **You are the one who brought up Wal-Mart, in your attempt to discredit that taxpayers indirectly fund unions and union bosses, and now you say Wal-Mart is irrelevant.**

    LOL – no, I didn’t say it was irrelevant. I said your arbitrary distinction was irrelevant to this conversation. And it still is.

    Union members fund unions. Taxpayers don’t fund unions. Period.

    **Follow the money ball from the school district, to the employee dues deduction which the school district sends to a union affiliate, who in turn sends a portion to two other union affiliates.**

    No. This is inaccurate. Follow the money. Taxpayers fund the school district. The school district pays employees. That is the end of the money flow from taxpayers. Yes, the SD sends money to the union, just like it does payroll deductions for other things. But the money that the SD sends is the employees’ money, not the taxpayers.

  14. The FOIA request from Mr. Skinner was for the dues paid by CHSD 155 to IEA.

    The reply was “D155 Education Association Monthly Dues – IEA.”

    What has come out is that one monthly dues payment includes IEA, NEA, & HSD 155 EA dues.

    So a better description would be “D155 Education Association Monthly Dues – IEA (includes NEA & HSD 155 EA dues).”

    Thus it seems teachers pay dues to the IEA, NEA, & HSD 155 EA via a monthly bundled payment from the school district to the union local.

    The union local then sends payments to IEA & NEA.

    That’s the money flow.

    But the teachers obviously pay dues to the NEA, IEA, and HSD 155 EA.

    My point was simply to be sure to ask for NEA & HSD 155 EA, to be sure those dues were included.

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    The document flow starts with taxpayers and does not end at the school district but rather continues to unions and union bosses.

    There is a document trail.

    The original source of funds is without question the taxpayer, regardless of the various intermediaries involved.

    Just because the school district pays the teachers (it’s then the teacher’s money) and sends payroll deduction union dues to the HSD 155 EA union local does not change the fact the money originally came from taxpayers.

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    Every state and local public sector employee in Illinois and the United States, including school teachers, now have the choice to not pay the union a dime.

    This includes all current and future employees.

    This section applies to public sector state and local jobs covered by a union.

    No more mandated fair share fees as a condition of employment.

    No more required union payroll deductions just to hold the job.

    There is no longer a requirement to join a union.

    So if you take a new public sector state or local job, such as a teaching job, and don’t want to join the union, don’t sign a form join a union.

    If you are confused whether or not to sign something, ask for a copy of the form, say let me think about it, and then in your free time call the National Right to Work Association.

    The freedom to no longer be forced to pay fees to a union as a condition of employmente is the result of the Janus v AFSCME Council 31 US Supreme Court decision.

    However, some existing employees are not clear about how to cancel their fair share fees or union membership.

    This is in no small part because the union has not adequately made information easily located and accessible about how to cancel their fair share fees or union membership.

    Here is the process for teachers, ESP’s, and others belonging to the IEA (the IFT may have different rules).

    This is from the IEA New Membership Enrollment form (keep that in mind as you read the verbiage).

    Emphasis has been added.

    If one wanted to be sure of the steps before going about this, and wished not to talk to the IEA, NEA, or the local association first, check with the National Right to Work, or American Association of Educators.

    “I agree to my unified membership in the IEA-NEA, NEA and my local association (including any other association which is my exclusive bargaining representative and affiliated with the IEA-NEA) (“Assocation”) and that my membership shall be continuous UNLESS I PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTICE SIGNED BY ME STATING THAT I NO LONGER WANT TO BE A MEMBER.

    SUCH NOTICE SHALL ALSO INCLUDE THE NAME OF MY LOCAL ASSOCIATION AND BE SENT VIA THE U.S. MAIL TO EITHER THE IEA PRESIDENT OR MY LOCAL ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS: 100 EAST EDWARDS ST., SPRINGFIELD, ILLINIOS 62704.

    I agree to submit dues to the Association and hereby authorize my employer (including any other employer to which my employment is transferred by law or agreement) to deduct from my pay such dues and voluntary contributions to IPACE, as these sums are annually established, and to NEA FCPE, and to forward such amounts to my local association (or IEA-NEA, if the local association is no longer affiliated with IEA-NEA).

    This authorization is to continue in force, regardless of my membership status, UNLESS A) REVOKED BY ME FOR A SUCCEEDING MEMBERSHIP YEAR BY GIVING WRITTEN NOTICE TO THAT EFFECT TO BOTH MY EMPLOYER AND LOCAL ASSOCIATION ON OR BEFORE SEPTEMBER 15 or b) my employment ends.”

    Be sure to send any cancellation letter via a traceable carrier such as FEDEX, UPS, certified mail, etc.

    Keep a copy for your records.

    If one were extra cautious they could get the letter notarized by a notary public but that might be overkill.

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    Illinois Policy Institute

    Opting Out of Your Union: A ‘How-To’ Guide for Illinois Teachers, Public Safety Workers and Other Public Employees

    by Mailee Smith, Staff Attorney

    June 27, 2018

    illinoispolicy.org/opting-out-of-your-union-a-how-to-guide-for-illinois-teachers-public-safety-workers-and-other-public-employees

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    The Illinois Policy Institute article references the website LeaveMyUnion.com

  15. Regarding the end of the previous post.

    If a current union employee wants to drop out of the union and not pay dues, specific in the letter that you wish to:

    1) Drop membership in the union.

    2) Terminate payroll deduction.

    Those are two different items.

    If you terminate payroll deduction but do not drop membership, you may still be liable for dues payments, through direct payment rather than through payroll deduction.

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