Good afternoon, eDues Coordinators.

Thank you for all of your efforts and your willingness to take on this extra work to ensure that CTA is not adversely impacted or worse, decertified and eliminated entirely under the newly changed state laws.

This is the first of a series of emails you all will receive with important information and eDues updates that will help you in your capacity as an eDues Coordinator.

In Solidarity,

Justin Katz

CTA President

CTA eDues Migration Updates

The Stats:

After just under 2 weeks of migration efforts since eDues Day on April 19, you have helped move over 3,100 CTA members to eDues! This number accounts for 45% of our current membership.

While many other local unions across the state have either struggled or not even begun their eDues journey, CTA has blown away all other unions in both raw numbers and pace of migrated members!

Do not let the stats deceive you. We are in a marathon that will run through the end of the school year and into the summer months. 45% after less than 2 weeks is an amazing number to put on the board and has effectively cut our workload in half for the next month as the school year winds to a close. There are no shortcuts here and this will be a grind that takes time. We are in great position to complete our objective.

While our numbers are impressive out of the gate, we need to keep our momentum going for the next four weeks to end the school year on a high-note and at a level of total eDues migrations that will make the summer workload of tracking down those who did not convert to eDues more manageable. Internally, our goal is to have at least 80% of all CTA members enrolled in eDues by the conclusion of the school year.

What do you need to do as eDues coordinators

to keep our success going?

- Schedule an eDues Meeting with all CTA members at your school-site. Notice your meeting via flyers/emails/etc. so members know to attend!

- Contact your LRC for support, tips, eDues documents, flyers, etc. They are making school visits 2-3x a day to help with eDues signups. Ask them for help and tips to success!

- Review your membership eDues roster every Monday when they are updated for you. All eDues Coordinators should receive updated eDues status rosters by Monday at noon of each week from their school's assignbed LRC.

- Engage in one-on-one conversations with all CTA members who haven't enrolled yet. The overwhelming majority of CTA members who have not migrated to eDues yet just need to be asked face-to-face.

Tell CTA members at your school who have completed their eDues signup processes to spread the word about how easy and quick this is! Word of mouth matters and an army of help for you as an eDues Coordinator will make your task easier to complete!

Additionally, we have recruited over 300 new CTA members in the past 3 weeks under Join-Now-Pay-Later. Boosting our total membership above 7,260 and within range of achieving the new minimum density for a teachers union to exist under the law (60%). Our current membership puts us at 58% with a whole month left to recruit new members before summer break. To ge to 60% we need approximately 7,500 total CTA members. I am positive we will achieve this level by the end of May. Keep doing what you are doing and letting potential-members know what is taking place in state law and the implications and real-world consequences of losing your union and potentially your collective bargaining agreement.

Celebrating Success:

So far 2 schools have achieved 100% eDues migration of their membership. They are Belle Glade Elementary and L.C. Swain Middle!!! Many other schools are well on their way and a number are sitting in the 70-80-90% range as we speak.

Special thanks to Belle Glade eDues Coordinators Octavian Prince, Tania Diaz, and Summer Miller and L.C. Swain eDues Coordinator Stacy Tepper!

Next Steps:

Continue doing what you are doing and if you have not held a CTA member eDues Meeting yet, PLEASE schedule one immediately and notice your members in advance so they can attend and get their eDues signup done with in under 5 minutes! These meetings a crucial and have a high level of success. People who are hesitate (purely psychological) are much more comfortable engaging in these processes when they are right there with you and their fellow CTA members who are also making the shift to eDues.

Have those one-on-one conversations with members who have not come to you or engaged eDues yet. They just need a little help and assurance that this is safe, simple, and secure!

There will be additional eDues materials and new member recruitment literature coming out this week. Use the resources available to you on the CTA eDues Information Hub and from your LRCs. You can use school email to notice your members about meetings, send a gentle reminder to come to you for help with eDues if they haven't completed the process yet, or to send one-on-one emails to individual CTA members to ask them if you can help them get things going. (BCC members on any mass member email - to avoid the REPLY ALL chain monster that may aggravate people.) Above all else, BE RESPECTFUL and do not be too aggressive in your efforts that our own members are turned off or offended by this simple request to migrate to eDues. Some people will want to move at their own pace and take their time. Read the member and their response to your efforts to help them with eDues. We want to BE RESPECTFUL at all times to our members!

The faster we are all able to complete this massive undertaking, the faster the future of CTA is secured and we can focus on the real business of unions without these legislative distractions.

If you need to contact your LRC for any reason, click here to identify the correct LRC that represents your school and get their contact information to communicate with them regularly!