One of the nation’s largest teacher’s unions could be on the verge of extinction after it couldn’t meet the requirements of a new Florida law that ended the automatic deductions of union dues from paychecks.
The United Teachers of Dade, a union that according to its website represents over 25,000 employees in the Miami-Dade area, failed a recent audit finding that it didn’t meet the 60 percent threshold of employees who were paying members and now stands at risk of being decertified.
(Video: YouTube/CBS Miami)
In May, DeSantis signed Senate Bill 256 into law, at the time touting its benefits of allowing teachers to take home more pay without being bullied into funding the unions, many of which have become increasingly politicized as left-wing activists have exploited the educational system to push their agenda.
“By signing the Paycheck Protection Act, Florida teachers will be able to choose how their hard-earned money is spent,” the governor said at the time. “School unions will no longer be able to hold teachers’ paychecks hostage with veiled threats while hiding where the money goes.”
The Sunshine State Republican also touted the “Teacher’s Bill of Rights” in taking the lead on an issue of national importance with indoctrination having replaced education in classrooms throughout the land.
In addition to approving a record $1 billion for teacher salaries, the legislation I signed:
– Protects teacher paychecks from automatic union deductions
– Creates a Teachers’ Bill of Rights
– Reforms school board elections
– Removes social media from classrooms pic.twitter.com/tswnsNI1Ei— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) May 9, 2023
“If they don’t have a majority of the teachers who are actually signing up to pay dues, it should be decertified,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said in December 2022. “You shouldn’t be able to continue as a zombie organization that doesn’t have the support of the people you are supposedly negotiating for.”
In a statement to the Miami Herald, the UTD confirmed that it fell short of the requirement despite what it called an “an unprecedented growth in the past five months” with the addition of 800 “eligible new members.”
“We have not achieved the new 60% membership density mandated by the onerous anti-worker law,” the union which is reportedly the third largest teacher’s union in the nation said.
“This is a very real existential threat,” said Allison Beattie, the Director of Labor Relations at the Freedom Foundation, a union watchdog organization. “This would be a blow not just to this union, but to the influence of teacher’s unions across the country.”
“This is a very real existential threat,” said Allison Beattie, Director of Labor Relations at the Freedom Foundation, a conservative union watchdog.
“This would be a blow not just to this union, but to the influence of teachers unions across the country.” https://t.co/p3YwYpeQ9N
— Freedom Foundation (@FreedomFdtn) January 5, 2024
“They want the union out of politics altogether,” Beattie said, according to the New York Post. “They don’t want their union dues going one way or another.”
“Freedom Foundation, associated with Betsy DeVos and Gov. DeSantis, are spending a boatload of money to union bust United Teachers of Dade in Miami b/c they want to destroy public education & unions. Teachers are fighting back. Stay tuned,” said Randi Weingarten, the radical leftist lesbian who heads up the powerful national American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union that has political influence extending into the Biden White House.
Freedom Foundation, associated with Betsy DeVos and Gov. DeSantis, are spending a boatload of money to union bust United Teachers of Dade in Miami b/c they want to destroy public education & unions. Teachers are fighting back. Stay tuned. https://t.co/Gp3jkK3D9F
— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) October 21, 2023
“The audit results do not immediately decertify the union. Instead, it sets off a series of steps the union must take to renew its certification with the state. First, the union will have to prove at least 30% of its bargaining unit wants a union. Then, its members will have to vote to move forward with certifying UTD again,” according to the Miami Herald.
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