Letter: Teachers need real union for real results

Monday, Dec. 17, 2007 | 7:08 a.m.

I don't understand why the Clark County teachers chose to stay with the Clark County Education Association instead of getting union representation. The CCEA emblem proclaims Pride and Power, but when have we ever seen any power from this organization?

While unions across the Las Vegas Valley are negotiating living wages and benefits for their people, teachers have to accept what crumbs the School Board throws them. And that situation is not going to change.

The CCEA is often described as a union, but that's incorrect; it's more a social club, where picnics and dances for its members are well run, but as far as the hard work of getting decent salaries, benefits and protection for teachers, forget about it. Maybe next year enough teachers will see the light. In the meantime they have their pride and power.

Richard J. Mundy, Las Vegas

The writer is a retired New York teacher who belongs to the American Federation of Teachers.

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