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Protect Your Union Membership with AutoPay
If your state legislature has enacted payroll deduction prohibitions, or if these prohibitions are a looming threat, ...
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LANDMARK Victory! GPO and WEP repealed
Called the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), these rules have robbed firefighters, ...
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How Teachers View Their Pay and Benefits
According to the RAND Corporation's 2024 State of the American Teacher survey, two-thirds of teachers report receiving a pay increase between the 2022–2023 and 2023–2024 school years. The average pay ...
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Congress makes history, passes bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Congress today passed the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82), landmark legislation that repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) ...
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How will the repeal of GPO/WEP change your life?
Congress has passed the Social Security Fairness Act, repealing the unfair penalties known as GPO and WEP. These penalties denied retired educators, first responders, and other public service workers ...
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Senate Vote on FY2025 National Defense Authorization Act
On behalf of our 3 million members and the 50 million students they serve—including those in schools on military bases worldwide—we offer these comments for your consideration as you vote on the ...
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VOTE YES on GPO/WEP Repeal
On behalf of our 3 million members and the 50 million students they serve, we strongly urge you to VOTE YES on the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82) when it comes to the floor next week. Votes on ...
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FY2025 National Defense Authorization Act
On behalf of our 3 million members and the 50 million students they serve—including those in schools on military bases worldwide—we offer these comments for your consideration as you vote on the ...
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World History is About More than Europe
My high school world history students are burdened with a rather Eurocentric textbook. The lackluster tome devotes more than 80 pages to the French Revolution and two pages to the Haitian Revolution.
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Lessons From the ‘Red Scare’ in U.S. Public Schools
After World War II, hundreds of groups targeted public educators in a postwar anti-communist red scare. The NEA fought back against unfair criticism of public education through its National Commission ...
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The Rise of Members of Color Networks
"Shay, I don’t mess with the NJEA because they don’t stick up for Black and brown people!” “But Sekou, you should come with me to a members of color meeting that NJEA is putting together.” This was ...