The West Allis-West Milwaukee Education Association is a professional organization of dedicated professionals in a variety of specialized fields. They serve the West Allis-West Milwaukee School District, in a community of 60,000 people in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin.The mission of the WAWMEA is:
- To aid and assist members in obtaining and extending the benefits of mutual assistance and collective bargaining.
- To develop among the profession and public a better understanding of the issues and problems in the area of teachers' rights.
- To advance the civil and academic rights of the teaching profession.
- To encourage all teachers, without regard to race, creed, sex, color, national origin, or handicap, to share equally in the full benefits of this organization, the West Suburban Council, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, and the National Education Association.
- To work for Legislation which will safeguard and promote the principle of free collective bargaining and the rights of teachers, and oppose legislation hostile to these objectives.
- To promote and use all appropriate media, to advance and protect the teaching profession and the individual rights of the members of the teaching profession through education and other lawful means.
- To safeguard the democratic character of the teachers' association for protection of the rights of the teaching profession and its individual members, through the organization of this association and the organization with which it affiliates.
- To provide for involvement of minority members in association activities.
- To encourage teachers to register and vote, and to exercise their full rights and responsibilities of citizenship and to perform their rightful part in the political life of local, state, and national communities, while preserving the independence of the teachers and the teaching profession from political control, and to engage in political activities permitted to a labor organization by law in furtherance of the objectives set forth in this article.
- To promote the human and civil rights and educational welfare of all students.
- To promote the improvement of instruction.
- To work towards the improvement of teacher education and professional development.
- To develop and promote the adoption of such ethical practices, personnel policies, and standards of preparation and participation as mark a profession.
- To unify and strengthen the teaching profession and to secure and maintain the salaries, retirement, tenure, professional and sick leave, and other working conditions necessary to support teaching as a profession.
- To enable members to speak with a common voice on matters pertaining to the teaching profession and to present their individual and common interests before the Board of Education and other legal authorities.