tive bargaining. The variations are due to the fact
in the others.
that the NEA's fiscal year differs from the fiscal
year of some of its state and local affiliates. For
20. Larry Shaw, Telephone interview with the
the year ending August 31, 2000, the NEA spent
author, May 3, 2002.
approximately $221,000,000; thus 62 percent, or
21. Article 20, AFL-CIO Constitution available from
$137,000,000 went for collective bargaining
AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street, N.W., Washington,
expenses. "Financial Reports, A Report from NEA
D.C. 20006.
Secretary-Treasurer, Dennis Van Roekel,"
National Education Association, Washington,
22. The author once represented 11 school districts at
2000, p. 35.
the same time. This was possible only because their
existing contracts expired at different times over a
18. Myron Lieberman, NLRA Precedent in ALRB
three-year period, but it is not at all unusual for indi-
Decisions (Long Beach, California: State University
vidual negotiators to represent a number of school dis-
Research Foundation, 1982).
tricts whose contracts expire at the same time.
19. Larry Shaw, e-mail to Myron Lieberman, May
23. National Labor Relations Act, 49 stat. 44
12, 2002. According to Shaw, UEA enrolls 75 per-
(1935) as amended 1947, 1951, 1958, 1959, 1974.
cent of the market in large locals and 60 percent
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