Attention teachers, active and retired: your future is at stake and being dismantled piece by piece by STRS

 

Teachers, pay attention: These OEA-endorsed STRS Board members have done NOTHING for you! They have done NOTHING to reduce the active teachers' humongous 14% contribution to STRS. They have done NOTHING to reduce the number of years you must work to earn a full retirement. They have done NOTHING to reinstate even a small COLA to retirees, whose cost of living is SOARING while their pension remains flatlined, due to GROSS MISMANAGEMENT of STRS. To support ANY of these DO-NOTHING candidates is to vote for a dire future for yourself. OEA has done NOTHING to help your situation, have they? What are active teachers even getting for their huge annual dues? NOTHING!!! That money goes right into the pockets of a huge number of OEA people who are supposedly helping you, and making huge salaries (many are six figures), thanks to you. Are they, really helping you? You be the judge. Educate yourself and spread the word. Join the Facebook group Ohio STRS Member Only Forum if you haven't already, and want to know what's really going on at STRS. Or read this blog; it's all there. And, for heaven's sake JOIN ORTA! Robin Rayfield is knocking himself out traveling all over the state to enlighten as many STRS stakeholders as he can about our plight. He is a hugely strong advocate for ALL of us, active AND retired teachers! (Actives can join ORTA for $10 a year.) We are all in this together; we ALL need to get on board to reform STRS (and OEA, for that matter!!) and save our future before they wreck it any further! It's costing each and every one of us THOUSANDS.  It's time to WISE UP!