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Leadership bends rules to suit itself, rather than its members. Authoritarian behavior wrapped in progressive rhetoric.

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Leadership bends rules to suit itself, rather than its members. Authoritarian behavior wrapped in progressive rhetoric.

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Lack of understanding of their actual power

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Lack of understanding of their actual power

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It's difficult to recruit POC teacher leaders at the local level and POC teachers in general that reflect the communities they serve.

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Operate under the fallacy that class as a basis of organizing negates race as a factor that at work

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Operate under the fallacy that class as a basis of organizing negates race as a factor that at work

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Need to answer to very large membership who might not be as broadly as progressive as we would like (including conservative White teachers)

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Need to answer to very large membership who might not be as broadly as progressive as we would like (including conservative White teachers)

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Lack of engagement of rank-and-file members

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Lack of engagement of rank-and-file members

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Unions constantly feeling like they need to play defense/airing on the side of fear-based organizing tactics

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Unions constantly feeling like they need to play defense/airing on the side of fear-based organizing tactics

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Unions are afraid to take stances that will jeopardize their status. They operate in self-preservation and if jobs are cut, they have nothing.

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Active pushback (from leadership) against strategies & efforts to improve the way union operates or governs, even when such requests come from members themselves

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Active pushback (from leadership) against strategies & efforts to improve the way union operates or governs, even when such requests come from members themselves

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One-size-fits-all pay is not equitable for teachers or students.

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One-size-fits-all pay is not equitable for teachers or students.

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Lack of new leaders who will bring more progressive perspectives and change

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Lack of new leaders who will bring more progressive perspectives and change

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Barriers to full participation in the voting process

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Nationwide threats to right to collective bargaining

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Nationwide threats to right to collective bargaining

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Union power hoards at the top. Is not in support of BLM. Continues to gate-keep and perpetuate voter suppression. Absorbs all opponents through various forms of coercion.

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Lack of significant engagement, especially from people who don't mirror the ideals of the current legislative/delegate, etc body(res

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Spending large amounts of time & resources defending not so great educators 

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Spending large amounts of time & resources defending not so great educators 

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Reflexively protectionist. Unwilling to engage with opposing views even if those views might actually be more in line with union membership.

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Reflexively protectionist. Unwilling to engage with opposing views even if those views might actually be more in line with union membership.

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Some unions are more progressive than society in general so they are viewed from members as not the biggest problem.  Operate in a very normative white culture that deters potential candidates early on in recruitment.

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Lots of fear--"us versus them," unwilling to engage with nuance or the possibility that folks can support unions but also want them to do better. Any push-back = anti-union/pro-DeVos

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Lots of fear--"us versus them," unwilling to engage with nuance or the possibility that folks can support unions but also want them to do better. Any push-back = anti-union/pro-DeVos

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Pressure from other unions to capitulate to the usual priorities

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Pressure from other unions to capitulate to the usual priorities

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Majority of voters in last union election were retirees in NY that may or may not have been in the classroom in over five to ten to twenty years

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Unions have lots of lofty goals, but often get caught up in the basic rights/needs teachers aren't provided with

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Unions have lots of lofty goals, but often get caught up in the basic rights/needs teachers aren't provided with

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The insular nature of union leadership: "If you're not aligned with me, you're anti-union."

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The insular nature of union leadership: "If you're not aligned with me, you're anti-union."