Link to article from the Washington Examiner:
From the article:
“The
cuts are necessary because the NEA's budget projects a 14 percent membership
decline over the next two years for the union, which currently represents three
million people. Garcia characterized the move as strategic, saying the cuts
were needed to refocus NEA's efforts to maintain its membership. "We will
prepare for the worst, and we will prepare for the best simultaneously, because
what we didn't cut out of that budget was the human-to-human contact, the
information with members and potential members. There are no more nonmembers,
there are only potential members," she said.
Garcia
said the union had been struggling even before the Janus ruling due to to campaigns by led by conservative groups
such as Americans For Prosperity in states like Michigan that alert people to
their rights to opt out under newly-adopted right-to-work laws. Like the Janus ruling, right-to-work laws
guarantee that workers cannot be compelled to financially support the union
that represents their workplace. Six states have adopted such laws since 2012,
for a total of 28 states that have them on the books.”
