DENVER – The National Education Association’s employee union says the NEA doesn’t bargain in good faith.

In fact, members of the Association of Field Service Employees – the union representing NEA staff members – feels so strongly about hardball tactics during the current round of collective bargaining with NEA leaders that it’s members are picketing the union’s representative assembly this week at the Denver convention center, according to radical teacher/blogger Fred Klonsky.

“The staff people I talk to claim members have been bullied and transferred by management without explanation during the bargaining,” Klonsky wrote. “AFSE says that (NEA Executive Director John Stocks) has refused to extend the contract during bargaining and has notified them that management intends to comply only with mandatory subjects of bargaining.

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“They say he has threatened to abolish union leave, payroll deduction and end joint labor-management committees until a new contract is agreed upon.”

The AFSE protest in Denver is at least the second in recent weeks, after the union staff held a similar “rally and informational picket in and outside of NEA headquarters in Washington, D.C.” late last month, according to Mike Antonucci’s EIAonline.com, a teachers union watchdog site.

“The Association of Field Service Employees is upset that its contract has expired, and management has been slow to come to an agreement on a new one,” Antonucci wrote. “This wouldn’t be all that unusual, except management is the National Education Association and AFSE is one of the unions representing staffers.”

Other D.C. union apparently sent their members to march in solidarity with AFSE picketers in June, as well.

In other words, the NEA is getting a taste of its own medicine, and it’s yucky. It’s also worth noting that while the NEA often pressures school districts to settle new collective bargaining agreements as soon as or before the old ones expire, AFSE members have been trying to get the NEA to agree to terms since their contract expired … last May, according to Klonsky.

It’s also quite ironic that AFSE leaders are using the NEA’s convention as a prime opportunity to pull Stocks’ pants down in public – using the same tactics the teachers union uses against school districts across the country – to expose the NEA’s blatant hypocrisy.

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“It is very likely that the two sides will reach a settlement before anything too embarrassing occurs, but it wouldn’t be unprecedented for AFSE to go on strike,” Antonucci wrote. “It did so in 1987.”

The NEA-AFSE debacle, however, isn’t the only union-versus-union battle brewing this summer.

There’s apparently talks of professional workers with the California Teachers Association taking their frustrations with the CTA to the union’s Burlingame headquarters on Labor Day if current negotiations don’t improve, according to EIAonline.

“There is still plenty of time to cut a deal; their collective bargaining agreement doesn’t expire until August 31,” Antonucci reports. “But the rumblings have already begun.”