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<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Imagine your organization is facing attacks from all sides.  Imagine it’s losing members and revenue.  Imagine governors and mayors – of both political parties – publicly denouncing your industry as “broken” and move swiftly to stifle your power and influence, while you flail away helplessly.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">What to do?  What else to do but go down drinking?</p>
<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">That’s what members of the National Education Association’s National Staff Organization have apparently decided.  The NSO is an association of sorts for teachers’ union staff – political and communications types.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Following an “Advocacy Retreat” with the theme “Building Our Unionism,” members set sail on a 7-day cruise from Miami on February 5<sup style="font-size: 0.7em; vertical-align: super;">th</sup> “with stops at Cozumel, Grand Cayman Island and Isla Roatan.”  Sounds fun!  [In case the Facebook link disappears, never fear: here’s <a href="http://www.publicschoolspending.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NSO-Contact-issue-3.pdf" style="color: #287bac;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">a PDF</span></a> of the NSO newsletter.]</p>
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