How WAWMEA Membership Works for You!
Our Association gives you access to advocates and programs to help you reach your professional and financial goals:
- Promoting excellence in education
- Securing professional wages and benefits
- Protecting your career
- Building community support
- Lobbying for funding & other decisions that affect our schools
- Providing other member services
As a member, you are part of a strong, united team -- a team that's making a difference for the children of West Allis and West Milwaukee. Creating better lives for our members and the students and families we serve is what WAWMEA is all about. Your membership and involvement is a positive investment in quality public schools.
WAWMEA Advocats for You and Your Career
WAWMEA is in the business of advocating for you and your career. When you join the West Allis-West Milwaukee Education Association, you'll immediately have access to advocates and programs to help you reach your professional and financial goals. You'll automatically be protected with professional liability insurance. But that's just the beginning. Take a look at the multitude of valuable programs and services that membership brings.
WAWMEA promotes excellence in education through:
- Professional advice, training, and other assistance related to teacher quality, such as teacher evaluation and mentoring, certification and recertification PDP workshops.
- WEAC provides its members with training sessions on all aspects of instruction on teaching and learning, human and civil rights, political action in communications, negotiations, classroom management, and other areas of concern to educators. Association workshops are consistently high quality and offered at no or low cost to members.
- Combating privatization in our cities and throughout Wisconsin
- Partnering with community organizations that care about our future.
WAWMEA secures professional wages and benefits through:
- Professional, experienced staff to assist in collective bargaining matters, ranging from research to member organizing to public relations
- Training in bargaining skills
- Lobbyists fighting for you in the State Capitol and with the school board
WAWMEA protects your career through:
- Liability Insurance. If you are sued, liability insurance through WEAC will provide you with an attorney and $1 million in coverage for any judgment against you.
- Professional, experienced staff advocates to advise and/or represent employees in employment-related matters
- Training in leadership and problem-solving
- WEAC’s legal advice goes far beyond liability insurance and attorneys. Any time you have a question about your employment rights or benefits, your UniServ staff (West Suburban Council) will be able to answer those questions. UniServ staff will advocate for you with your administration when you have questions or concerns. And, if you need legal assistance, WEAC’s attorneys are the best in the state in employment-related law and school law. It’s all free to WEAC members.
WAWMEA works to build community support through:
- Public relations campaigns to communicate our messages using both news media and advertising
- Building coalitions among school employees, parents, and the public on key issues such as school safety
- WEAC informs the public about educators’ views and builds educators’ images in the public through advertising and public relations activities.
WAWMEA Lobbies for funding and other decisions that affect our schools:
- Impact on legislative funding and other decisions that affect our schools
- Promotion of increased, adequate, and sustained funding for K-12 public schools
- Lobbying to inform and influence legislators and other decision makers about education employees' interests and priorities
Other member services:
- Membership in the West Suburban Council, Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) and the National Education Association (NEA) offers many services to you personally and professionally
- Publications related to membership and your career