Teachers have to pay union dues in CA, isn't it that way everywhere?

There is no annual renewal.

Annual sign-up allows for the teachers to "reflect' on if they want to continue membership.

Opt out of paying dues. I proudly pay my union dues every month.

It wasn't like that a few years ago. Now the non members can benefit from the the dues of the paying members. That sucks!

I was gonna throw it away but kept it. They said “public school employees can resign union membership and cease paying union dues”. I overheard an employee saying to the school union rep that were considering opting out because they could use that extra money. I work as a substuite at a regular school. And I noticed recently the employee who asked that question now gets put into the worst classes with difficult students as a para. Ha ha.

pissed off that she didn't have a choice (close shop union). I naturally did not want to sub for her since I am pro union and eventually became a union rep at my site. When my master teacher told me to join a union as soon as I got a contract I did...good advice. I told newer teacher over the years that the district didn't pay disability insur (even if you got pregnant) and they were grateful since they were unaware of this fact. Unions do a zillion things that most people aren't even aware of. I have benefited from the union a million different ways. Mostly people are short sighted and cheap. They don't want to pay the dues but they do want the benefits.

Capitalism is like slavery. You can't reform it and make life a bit easier for slaves, you just have to wipe it out and start a new economic system.

and push for a proposal where it is changed so that every 5 to 10 years both the public and the private school teachers that are members of the union vote on if they want to have to have their union dues automatically deducted every year or have to sign off on it every year.
That way it takes atleast some of the wind out of the sails for the anti union push.