Money Issues Often Drive Unions Apart
The Ohio Education Association donated $500,000 to Every Child Counts, the campaign to pass a 1-cent sales-tax increase for public education that state voters defeated by an overwhelming margin this month.
On the opposing side were the Ohio AFL-CIO, which contributed $25,000 to Vote No on Issue 2, and the Ohio Association of Public School Employees, an affiliate of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, which chipped in $30,000.
The split between the 112,000-member Ohio affiliate of the National Education Association and other labor groups shows that when it comes to deciding how public dollars should be spent, unions don't always agree. It also illustrates a potential hurdle in gaining members' support for a formal alliance between the NEA and the American Federation of Teachers, which operates under the vast...
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