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The Georgia Teachers Organization
The Georgia Teachers Organization (GTO) is an organizational body that hopes to create better work
conditions and environments for all educators in the state of Georgia. Since there was no single body for speak out for the educators in the state of Georgia, GTO has its goal to do what is missing behalf of
the educators who are in the state of Georgia. They believe that they could more effectively talk out for matters such as higher salaries,
better retirement benefits and the abolishment of state salary step structure by which the older teachers are discriminated, if all
200,000 Georgia educators united. Since
the educators have The Georgia Teachers Organization in place, the communication and action execution have been effective among the members.
It is All about Volunteering
The Georgia Teachers Organization states that they do not have "luxury" office apartments and none of their members run for elected
office. It is run by a group of volunteer members of the organization that work in order to accomplish better
gains for all teachers, faculty and staff members in the state of Georgia. One of the goals that GTO desires to accomplish is that to educate all
Georgia educators about the critical matters that concern their profession and seek the required action when it is needed. Using an email communication network, the organization will expand and notify their member of all the
applicable matters. The GTO is inviting the educators in the state of Georgia to join the organization by paying $25 annual fee.
Motivating the Educators
The
Georgia Teachers Organization is activily working towards establishing legislations for better educator gains, so it will uplift the
spirit of the educators According to the organization every state that borders Georgia has full retirement gains for educators after 25 years of service without an
early retirement penalty but Georgia does not offer this gain. Other than for the core gains of the educators, The Georgia Teachers Organization
also works on many additional spheres for raising and improving the benefits of the educators in the
state of Georgia.
The organization also state that the retirement benefit for each year of service should be increased to 3%. As a result 25 years of service would provide
75% (25*3%) salary upon retirement in contrast to the presently provided 60%. At present, Georgia state employee receive 90% of the salary in their retirement plan and The Georgia Teachers Organization argues that it should be same for the educators.
The Opportunities
When one joins the Georgia Teachers Organization one gets several gains such as being included in an action list
which notifies who to contact when significant matters break and also receiving email notifications about pending legislation
concerning the profession. The names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of those who should be
contacted to help pass important lawmaking would be given to the members. In addition to that, the educators attached to The Georgia Teachers Organization will get opportunities to move with the rest of the educators from other states and learn how they accomplished their rights.