Highly paid OEA employees need more money

  If people support a certain cause, then they have the right to contribute money to that cause, to sign petitions, to request a vote on that cause that will affect taxpayers.
  That's how it works in this country. We support those rights.
  However, something OEA union members should know is that the exorbitant dues paid by teachers in Ohio go to feather the nest of the union representatives with pretty fancy feathers.
  OEA employees make, shall we say, corporate size incomes from the dues of the hard working teachers who slog away every day in the classrooms.
  Take a look at these salaries from Thathero.com:

• LARRY N WICKS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: $210,858.00
• DOUG K CRAWFORD, LRC: $189,832.00
• CECELIA M WELDON, LRC: $187,405.00
• JAMES E MARTIN, AED BUSINESS SERVICES: $171,528.00
• KEVIN M FLANAGAN, AED MEMBER SERVICES-FIELD: $169,761.00
• MICHAEL N MCEACHERN, LRC: $169,298.00
• SUSAN M BABCOCK, AED STRATEGIC/WORKFORCE: $169,148.00
• RACHELLE N JOHNSON, AED MEMBER SERVICES-PROGR: $164,525.00
• MARK E LINDER, LRC: $161,756.00
• VENITA N SHOULDERS, LRC: $158,432.00
• WILLIAM A OTTEN, LRC: $155,873.00
• PATRICIA N COLLINS, DIRECTOR REGION 1: $155,551.00
• FRITZ N FEKETE, DIRECTOR I/S & RESEARCH: $154,635.00
• MARY E SUCHY, DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP: $152,636.00
• RANDALL V FLORA, DIRECTOR EI&I: $152,114.00
• RODNEY E BIRD, LRC: $152,058.00
• JEFFREY L KESTNER, LRC: $150,739.00

  And from Third Base Politics, a thoughtful discussion of why this organization feels the need to pay such corporate size salaries with teacher dues:

Leaving aside the hilarity of union advocates suddenly concerned about anything’s “market rate,” I’ve yet to come across a decent excuse for the OEA paying the average union employee $40,000 more than the average teacher. The OEA’s entire sales pitch is underfunded children and impoverished educators, for Pete’s sake! It’s like paying a chauffeur $96,000 a year to complain about your car loan.

  Now OEA wants an additional $54 from each union member for a media blitz to defeat SB 5. This is not voluntary money. For those union members who do not believe in their cause of defeating SB5, there is no recourse. They MUST support financially a cause in which they do not believe, in addition to involuntarily paying the corporate size salaries of OEA employees.
  Here's the chart, originally from That Hero or Third Base (can't tell which):

  And it's amazing that the number of OEA reps who voted for or against adding the $54 to OEA union members' dues for a media blitz against SB 5 is not being revealed by the union.

  Hm. Interesting.