Link to column on nj.com:
https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/06/im_an_njea_member_but_supreme_courts_unions_ruling.html
From the column:
“In
2016 -- the most recent year for which this data is available -- the NJEA
gave their top leadership a 42 percent pay raise. On average, the fourteen
officers identified as NJEA leaders earned more than $530,000 -- up from
$379,000 the year before.”
And
“While
the NJEA has been funneling teachers' dues into their salaries and political
campaigns, they have run our Health & Welfare Benefits Fund into the
ground. The fund --which is supposed to pay for benefits for active and retired
teachers -- is now at least $151 million in the red, funded at just 29
percent of its obligations. Instead of dumping millions into campaign coffers
and giving themselves healthy pay raises, the leadership of my union should
have been finding a way to fund our health benefits.”
