 the great union escape it seems like the mea wants to make this lady an offer she can t refuse  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 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 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 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 but unfortunately miss chanski didn t fill out the right form and so her money will continue to be funneled to democrats 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 so we will see the party of corruption isn t going to give up its illgotten 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  