Analysis: When the National Education Association Fights With Its Own Breakaway Locals
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The , claiming this would leave teachers without a contract or representation rights. The petition will now go before the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board.
This fracas in the Hoosier State is merely the latest in a series of defections from the NEA and its affiliates:
-The 3,000-member with the Tennessee Education Association and NEA last year. The state union quickly created a competing local to vie for members in Memphis.
-The to establish an independent union. Once again, NEA and AFT created a competing local in the district.
-In Las Vegas, Nevada, Teamsters Local 14 has fought for years to represent 11,000 school support employees currently served by the NEA-affiliated Education Support Employees Association. Despite several election victories – – the Teamsters are still on the outside looking in as NEA's union has fought the results all the way to the Nevada Supreme Court.
-In 2013, the 3,000 members of the to become independent, then took the unprecedented step of publishing an open letter to NEA in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that began with the sarcastic headline, "."
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