Friday, October 10, 2014
A State Education Association Is Taken to Court for Not Accepting Teachers’ Charitable Choices
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From: http://dailysignal.com/2014/10/04/public-school-teachers-sue-unions-attempt-censor-charitable-donations/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonsqXBZKXonjHpfsX56OovXae%2FlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DRMRlI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D
“Teachers Sue Union for Censoring Charitable Donations
Kelsey Harkness / @kelseyjharkness / October 04, 2014
Two teachers have taken Pennsylvania’s largest teachers union to court over its attempt to decide which charities may be supported by teachers as an alternative when they decline to join the union on religious grounds.
The teachers, Chris Meier from Lancaster County and Jane Ladley from Chester County, are required—as a condition of employment (Required by State law?—my addition)—either to be a member of the Pennsylvania State Education Association or pay a nonmember ‘fair share’ fee of $435.
Last spring, PSEA accepted Meier and Ladley’s status as religious objectors. In lieu of paying membership dues, state law instructed the teachers to pay a ‘fair share’ fee to a charity of their choice (Of their choice seems to be a key!—my addition).
Pennsylvania law stipulates that religious objectors must select a ‘non-religious charity’ that is ‘agreed upon’ by the union, but it does not specify a procedure or deadline for reaching that agreement (Is it really of their choice if the union also has to agree to it? Is this a poorly thought out law?—my addition).
Meier, an Advanced Placement economics and history teacher, chose the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which provides free legal advice and representation to teachers like himself (Right to work is the antithesis of unions! No wonder the union was unhappy!—my addition).
But because that foundation represented teachers in unrelated lawsuits against the PSEA, the union told Meier his charity was a ‘conflict of interest,’ and he must choose a different organization.
Meier, a father of three who calls himself a “bona fide religious objector” to the PSEA, was not going to give up easily.
‘I want the freedom of choice—to be able to donate to the charity I choose,’ he said in a press release.
Ladley, who is retiring this year after teaching students with learning disabilities for 25 years, initially chose a scholarship fund for high school seniors interested in studying the Constitution. But the PSEA sent her a letter in March saying she must choose a ‘nonpolitical’ charity instead (Teaching the Constitution is political? The Constitution is in favor of Republicans? Here I thought schools did that too! I did when I taught! Was I being political? I was a Democrat back in the days when I taught!—my addition).
‘I shouldn’t have to agree with the PSEA; that’s the whole point of being a religious objector,’ she told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.
Ladley next selected the Constitutional Organization of Liberty, a charity that provides educational materials on the Constitution and American history. The teachers union didn’t respond to this second choice (Rude?—my addition).
The two public school teachers, who are represented by lawyer Nathan R. Bohlander of the The Fairness Center, filed a lawsuit September 18. They argue:
‘The PSEA cannot maintain a unilateral ‘policy’ of withholding funds and restricting religious objectors’ choice of a substitute charity simply because the charity is, in the union’s view, ‘political,’ or otherwise takes positions with which the PSEA does not agree.’
In blocking the teachers’ donations to certain organizations, Bohlander told The Daily Signal, the PSEA not only was enforcing ‘restrictive’ policies but also being hypocritical (The law should not have given the union veto power!—my addition).
‘When the PSEA first told Ladley she could not give to political organizations, they gave her an approved list of 12 alternative organizations they supported (They supported which means they were ALL political!—my addition),’ the lawyer said.
After looking into those organizations, Bohlander found that ‘over half spend hundreds of thousands—or millions—of dollars on direct political lobbying (The very definition of political! It seems the union is being hypocritical!—my addition),’ while the organization Ladley chose is ‘dwarfed’ in comparison.
PSEA spokesman David Broderic told The Patriot-News that the union only just learned of the lawsuit and is in the process of reviewing it. Broderic emphasized that state law lays the foundation for the union policy (That is what I said! The law was poorly written!—my addition).
‘We are charged with following the law. We make every effort to accommodate charitable requests (Not sure that is true based on the information given!—my addition). And we’ll continue to do that.’
However, Bohlander said that promoting groups that the union fundamentally agrees with while inhibiting organizations with which it disagrees is ‘hypocritical (That is what I said!—my addition).’
Now, Meier and Ladley’s donations are being held indefinitely in an interest-bearing escrow account—another issue their lawsuit seeks to address.
‘There’s no mechanism for resolving this—it’s taken out automatically, and it can go out indefinitely without any resolution (Another aspect of the law being poorly written! Sounds like it needs to go back to the legislature!—my addition),’ Bohlander said.
‘The money is not being used by the teachers, it’s not being used by the union, and it’s not being used by the charity. The relative size of a small charity like the one Ladley chose would be greatly benefited by $400.’
The PSEA faced an October 9 deadline to respond to the complaint by Ladley and Meier.
‘They are telling me which groups I have to choose,’ Ladley said of the union. ‘It’s a wrong that needs to be righted (It is not choice if you do not get to choose that which you want to choose!—my addition).’
Broderic, the union’s lawyer, also told The Patriot-News that Ladley and Meier were among only eight educators with religious objections to the ‘fair share’ fee whose designated charities were under union review (Eight too many!—my addition).
Of the union’s 180,000 members, he said, 200 have religious objections to paying the fee and their charitable choices were approved (Is that relevant?—my addition).
Back when I taught, I always belonged to the teacher’s association and it was not required to belong to a local. If you belonged to the local, then you had to also belong to the State and national associations. Today, I could not belong to any because the national Association supports Democrats, the MURDER of unborn babies, and homosexual sin! The national Association has been taken over by Leftist radicals!
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