Re: NEA Members Can Get Refunds

[WMSteed@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/4/02 8:23:49 AM, escape@hotmail.com writes:

<< At 07:52 PM 6/5/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>Bush's Executive Order 13201: EVERY NEA member is due a refund
>for that part of the NEA revenues used for anything but collective
>bargaining, legal representation, or administration... things like
>political donations.

Did he also order that stockholders be refunded moneys that corporations 
spent on political donat >>

Took me a minute to realize you were replying to a June 2002 post, but...

I had a problem with a Presidential Order having been written which applied 
to a single organization.  So, I looked up Executive Order 13201 signed, 
February 17, 2001, which is titled Notification of Employee Rights Concerning 
Payment of Union Dues or Fees.  I could find no reference in it to the NEA.  
Furthermore, it is "designed to promote economy and efficiency in Government 
procurement" and requires all FEDERAL contractors to post a notice and 
include such information in any subcontracts the information that the 
contractor's "employees cannot be required to join a union or maintain 
membership in a union in order to retain their jobs."  The Notice is also 
required to state, "If you do not want to pay that portion of dues or fees 
used to support activities not related to collective bargaining, contract 
administration or grievance adjustment, you are entitled to an appropriate 
reduction in your payment.  If you believe that you have been required to pay 
dues or fees used in part to support activities not related to collective 
bargaining, contract administration or grievance adjustment, you may be 
entitled to a refund and to an appropriate reduction in future payments."  

Question, are NEA members Federal contractor employees?  If not, the 
Executive Order would not seem to apply.

Finally, there seems to be no mention in the Order that stockholders be 
refunded moneys that corporations spend on political donations either.

Walter Steed