17/10/2024
Interesting: Aunion representing roughly 1.8 million teachers and other educational workers used taxpayer-funded dues to book a trip to a famous casino and to pay for meals at luxury restaurants.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) spent over $370,000 on expenses at Caesars Palace, a luxury hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, disclosure forms show. In addition, the AFT also used dues collected from its members to help pay for trips to Europe and South America, as well as to pay off five-figure tabs at upscale restaurants.
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“My suspicion is that this is a case of ‘rank hath its privileges,'” Capital Research Center research director Michael Watson, an expert on organized labor, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “If you are one of the union officers or delegates who has shown loyalty to the union, who has served the union’s interests, they will fly you out, you get to go to the big convention, you get to clap as people give speeches, say how much you support Randi Weingarten and you get these rewards. Of course, it’s coming out of the dues checks of working teachers.”
Randi Weingarten, who heads the AFT, took home a salary of roughly half a million dollars between July 2023 and June 2024, according to the union’s most recent disclosure. Nearly all of AFT’s income during this period came from per capita tax fees collected from its regional affiliates. These fees paid by local unions are, in turn, funded by dues from public school teachers and other educational workers.
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The bulk of the AFT’s spending at Caesars Palace is marked as meeting expenses, with an additional couple thousand dollars in “non-itemized transactions,” according to the disclosure forms. Caesars Palace says that the rooms available to groups holding meetings on its grounds make “every guest feel like an emperor” and range from “high-end suites” to “plush villas.”A union representing roughly 1.8 million teachers and other educational workers used taxpayer-funded dues to book a trip to a famous casino and to pay for meals at luxury restaurants.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) spent over $370,000 on expenses at Caesars Palace, a luxury hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, disclosure forms show. In addition, the AFT also used dues collected from its members to help pay for trips to Europe and South America, as well as to pay off five-figure tabs at upscale restaurants.
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“My suspicion is that this is a case of ‘rank hath its privileges,'” Capital Research Center research director Michael Watson, an expert on organized labor, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “If you are one of the union officers or delegates who has shown loyalty to the union, who has served the union’s interests, they will fly you out, you get to go to the big convention, you get to clap as people give speeches, say how much you support Randi Weingarten and you get these rewards. Of course, it’s coming out of the dues checks of working teachers.”
Randi Weingarten, who heads the AFT, took home a salary of roughly half a million dollars between July 2023 and June 2024, according to the union’s most recent disclosure. Nearly all of AFT’s income during this period came from per capita tax fees collected from its regional affiliates. These fees paid by local unions are, in turn, funded by dues from public school teachers and other educational workers.
Related video: TUSD substitute teachers unionizing for pay raise (KGUN Tucson, AZ)
KGUN NINE'S. ANDREW
CHRISTIANSEN IS ON 5TH IN
ROSEMONT AND SPOKE WITH
SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS ABOUT THE
IMPACT THEY'RE HOPING TO MAKE
BY UNIONIZING. SO EARLIER THIS
Current Time 0:20
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Duration 1:51
KGUN Tucson, AZ
TUSD substitute teachers unionizing for pay raise
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The bulk of the AFT’s spending at Caesars Palace is marked as meeting expenses, with an additional couple thousand dollars in “non-itemized transactions,” according to the disclosure forms. Caesars Palace says that the rooms available to groups holding meetings on its grounds make “every guest feel like an emperor” and range from “high-end suites” to “plush villas.”
