a:1:{s:15:"field_blog_body";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:5:"value";s:2209:"It seems like the MEA wants to make this lady an <a href="http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20131022/NEWS01/310220025/Michigan-kindergarten-teacher-files-suit-against-MEA-over-union-requirement">offer she can't refuse</a>:<br />
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<div>COOPERSVILLE &mdash; If she doesn&rsquo;t pay her union dues, a kindergarten teacher says the Michigan Education Association is threatening to turn her over to a collection agency and ruin her credit.<br />
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Miriam Chanski, 24, says she informed the MEA in May she was quitting the teachers&rsquo; union, didn&rsquo;t want their representation, and would no longer be paying dues.</div>
</blockquote>I'm surprised she hasn't been threatening physically - you don't mess with union thugs. If I were Miss Chanski, I would be bracing for a horse's head in her bed in the next few weeks. But maybe that is not the MEA's way. Come to think of it, that sounds more like a UAW tactic.<br />
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All kidding aside, I admire Miss Chanski's desire to escape paying for services she probably never used. Perhaps she doesn't need the union's protection. Perhaps she has never had yelled obsentities about a Republican in her classroom. Maybe she doesn't have a vocal hatred of organized religion. Maybe she, you know, effectively teaches kids and keeps it at that.<br />
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But unfortunately, Miss Chanski didn't fill out the right form, and so her money will continue to be funneled to Democrats:<br />
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<div>&ldquo;In September, the president of our union came into my classroom before school and told me she was aware I had wanted to opt out of the union and asked if I had sent in another form in August,&rdquo; recalled Chanski. &ldquo;I told her I was unaware of another form to send in, I was unaware of the August dates, and she told me at that point if I had not sent in that form, I might have missed my chance to opt out of the union.&rdquo;</div>
</blockquote>So we will see. The party of corruption isn't going to give up its ill-gotten loot easily, so it will take persistence and probably lawyers to make her escape a successful one. I wish her the best, and hope she doesn't own any horses.<br />";s:6:"format";s:1:"2";}}}