Tom Curtis: Call for Ohio's teachers to end blackmail of retirement funds

From: Tom Curtis

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Hello Geo,

I keep hoping the newly retired will get involved, but most people I receive correspondence from are not those people. Educators have just allowed the OEA and STRS to take care of everything for us, believing that would be done in an efficient manner. Boy have we been wrong!

On the other hand, we were not made aware that there were so many problems in both of those organizations until 2003. Do you think we would have been more interested if we had known that problems with health care and pension shortages were looming heavily in our immediate futre? I will readily admit that I never gave it a thought that the STRS would not have the necessary funds to meet our health care and pension needs. I guess we shall see if the actives are willing to increase their contribution rates to help provide for the funds needed to continue both pensions and health care.

Take care,

Tom Curtis

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From: George Doyle

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Tom:

You and I both know that active teachers depend on information from their locals and the locals get their information from OEA, so there you go! That's why active teachers do not seem to care much about their retirement. Just wait until some of these apathetic people retire, then you's hear all kinds of complaining and want the retired to take some action to help them!

George

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From: Tom Curtis

Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Subject: 120705 Canton Repository; Teacher's Pension To Consider Law Suit Settlement; Curry

Helloooo Out There,

This is truly pathetic to think that educators in Ohio will sit back and allow this sort of blackmail to continue with our retirement funds.

Come on educators, show you actually have some backbone and get behind those of us that have been trying to stop this type of rape of our retirement funds for three years now. CORE has been there, where are you?

Educators certainly never received any bonuses for anything and had to complete job targets year after year. This is simply another left over gifting of money from our previous executive director, who by the way was awarded a $550,000 severance package to step down. I am beginning to know how the Lone Ranger must have felt!

It is no wonder our education system in Ohio is in trouble. The people that work in the system are not willing to get involved and fight for what should be. Most educators are willing to pay dues to the OEA, thinking someone else will do it. Hello, the OEA is responsible for all of this mess. Please wake up and find out what you can do to support CORE.

Tom Curtis