Maryland Bill Would Make Teacher Union Agency Fees Mandatory

Mike Antonucci:

I won't repeat the arguments against agency fees, but Maryland's case has an additional irony: Ten of the state's 24 school districts already require non-members to pay agency fees to the union. The provision was negotiated into teachers' contracts through the collective bargaining process, which is supposed to be the sacrosanct method for achieving gains in teacher pay, benefits and working conditions. But the Maryland State Education Association has been unable to persuade the remaining 14 school districts to go along, so it calls on the state legislature to circumvent the negotiating process in those districts.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 13, 2013 1:30 AM
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