Pennsylvania NEA and AFL-CIO to Announce Partnership
The press release calls this “an historic agreement”, but it’s hard to tell if this is really nothing more than the Pennsylvania State Education Association saying it won’t stand in the way of its locals joining the AFL-CIO. They are already allowed to apply for membership according to the provisions of the national agreement, which states only:
The AFL-CIO and the NEA will consult with each other through the Implementation Committee concerning each request for membership, and each organization will consult with their affiliated organizations through their own internal processes…. The agreements reached on these and any other issues will be subject to approval by the DANL and the relevant NEA state affiliate, and will be reflected in the Certificate of Affiliation issued by the AFL-CIO to the DANL.
We’ll find out tomorrow morning if there’s any more to it than that.