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1. Welcome to the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) Local 604 August survey.
You are a member of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and are represented in a Local Council, Local 604.
The IFT represents 103,000 education and public service professionals from cities and towns of every size across Illinois.
The IFT is a member of the The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which represents 1.6 million members nationwide.
As part of the IFT, Local 604 is responsible for negotiating and administrering your contract. In this survey, you will be asked about your negotiation goals and your experiences with and approval of your Local, the IFT and the AFT and will be asked for suggestions or comments.
If you are unfamiliar with a subject being asked, or do not wish to answer a particular question, you may skip that question.
This survey should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
The survey is anonymous.
Please do not copy or forward survey questions. |
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2. What is your current teaching position? |
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* 3. What is your local council? |
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4. What is your seniority/tenure in your position? |
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5. If you concentrate on one subject to teach, what is that subject? |
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6. Is your council currently in contract negotiations? |
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7. If you were a local 604 union official and had to choose how to spent $1,000 on political efforts, how would you allocate the money? Total must add to 1,000. |
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8. If you could pick only one choice to allocate union resources to influence, which you choose? |
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9. How would you rate the effectiveness of your Local 604 union's efforts to influence national politics? |
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10. How would you rate the effectiveness of your Local 604 union's efforts to influence state of Illinois politics? |
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11. How would you rate the effectiveness of your Local 604 union's efforts to influence local politics? |
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12. Please rank (1-3, with 1 being most important) in order of importance for your union to dedicate resources: |
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National politics |
| | State of Illinois poltics |
| | My local school board |
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13. How satisfied are you with the following:
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14. If you were to choose between these choices regarding health benefits, which would you choose? |
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15. Please place in order (1-5) of importance for contractual improvements: |
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Annual pay |
| | Health benefits (increasing benefits) |
| | Health benefits (decreasing costs) |
| | Retirement benefits |
| | Leave policies |
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16. If you could choose only one priority for contractual improvement, what would it be? |
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17. How satisfied are you with the following:
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18. How satisfied are you with the following:
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| 19. Do you have any comments or suggestions you would like to tell your current negotiators (if you are in negotiations), or to the negotiators for your next contract? | | |
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20. Please rate your approval of the following as it relates to their approach to educational policies:
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21. Please rate your level of satisfaction with the following:
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22. "I feel I receive a good value for my dues." |
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23. "I believe the union communicates with me effectively." |
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24. If my negotiators are unable to achieve my negotiation goals, I want the |
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25. Please indicate your thoughts on striking to achieve your contract goals: |
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26. Please rank in order of importance with "1" being most imporant: |
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Contractually addressing evaluation system |
| | Pay increases based on merit/evaluations |
| | Healthcare costs and contribution |
| | Retirement benefits |
| | Personal time off/Vacation days |
| | Pay rates vs. comparable metropolitan areas |
| | Duration of contract? |
| | Length of school day? |
| | Length of school year? |
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| 27. Outside of pay, retirement, and healthcare, what other section, if any, is the most important to you? | | |
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| 28. Do you have any concerns related to safety that you would like to see addressed in the contract? | | |
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| 29. What is one thing that holds you back from teaching your students as effectively as you wish you could? | | |
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30. "I believe I have the school-provided resources to be successful in the classroom." |
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| 31. What, if anything, is missing? | | |
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| 32. If you ran the school for a week, what would you change first? | | |
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| 35. What is the optimal number of students per classroom? | | |
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| 36. How many students are you assigned per classroom on average? | | |
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37. "I believe I am evaluated as a teacher fairly." |
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| 38. How can performance evaluations be improved? | | |
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| 39. What four items would you bring forward if you were sitting at the bargaining table for the new contract in order of importance? First: | | |
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43. "I have confidence in the financial and other data that my school system provides during negotiations." |
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44. "I have confidence in the financial and other data my local council provides me during negotiations." |
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45. Please rate the usefulness of the following methods of communcation relating to your union/negotiations:
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46. Which of the following woudl you find useful to improve the communications from your local council?
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47. The next three questions will ask you for comments on the state organization (IFT), your local 604 leadership and finally the negotiators and administrators working directly with you at your school or facility. If you have no comments, you may leave these blank. |
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| 48. Do you have any comments you wish to share with the state leaders of the Illinois Federation of Teachers? | | |
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| 49. Do you have any comments you wish to share with the leadership of local 604? | | |
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| 50. Do you have any comments you wish to share with your local bargaining unit leadership? | | |
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| 51. Do you have any comments or suggestions for improvement for this survey? | | |
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52. Thank you for completing the survey. |
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