ORTA under fire from some Summit County RTA members

From RH Jones, May 24, 2010
Subject: Re: Kate gives the Franklin Co. RTA co-president a well-deserved earful....and then some!

Len & Chuck,

Thanks for your support. Those in leadership positions at ORTA "just don't get it". I would love to see them change and get back to their long tradition of, as they say, the only rep of retired educators. However, they have been throwing away a wonderful tradition and have become voiceless in monitoring the STRS retired teacher issues. They just figure the easiest route of "just going along with the boys and the girls" and work to sell us insurance rather than representing us on the "firing line" at the STRS Hdq. It's sad, I do hope they change, and change quickly. They have the infrastructure in place to be our association, but if they aren't willing to aggressively represent us. They've got to go.

Bob

From Lenora Wood, May 24, 2010
Subject: FW: Kate gives the Franklin Co. RTA co-president a well-deserved earful....and then some!

COLLEAGUES I JUST CALLED SUE FRUTCHEY, PRESIDENT OF SCRTA TO LET HER KNOW THAT WE OPPOSE JOINING UP WITH ORTA. AS YOU CAN READ HERE, ORTA HAS DONE NOTHING TO HELP RETIRED TEACHERS. LET'S PUT OUR EFFORTS WITH CORE. THEY DO MORE THAN ORTA EVER DID. MAIL TO CONCERNED OHIO RETIRED EDUCATORS, P.O. BOX 167, WILMINGTON, OH 45177. SUGGESTED DUES ARE $10.

LEN AND CHUCK WOOD

From RH Jones, May 23, 2010
Subject: Kate gives the Franklin Co. RTA co-president a well-deserved earful....and then some!

To SummitCRTA board members:

As the SCRTA news says that the membership at the next luncheon meeting will vote on us having to pay ORTA dues in order to belong, I oppose such. Recently, ORTA has done nothing for retired educators. It seems to me that they work for the OEA rather than Ohio's retired educators. Please read documentation exhibited in the messages below. They are true.