The Georgia Teachers Organization
The Georgia Teachers Organization (GTO) is an organizational body that desires to create better work
conditions and environments for all educators in the state of Georgia. Since there was no single body for talk out for the educators in the state of Georgia, GTO has its objective to do what is missing behalf of
the educators who are in the state of Georgia. They believe that they could more effectively talk out for matters such as higher salaries,
better retirement benefits and the abolishment of state salary step structure by which the veteran teachers are discriminated, if all
200,000 Georgia educators united. Through The Georgia Teachers
Organization, they could effectively communicate with the members and coordinate actions on significant issues that concern Georgia educators.
It is All about Volunteering
The Georgia Teachers Organization states that they do not have "luxury" office apartments and none of their members run for elected
office. The organization is purely run by the volunteers who wish to do some service behalf
of the educators who are doing an excellent service for the state of Georgia. One of the goals that GTO desires to achieve is that to educate all
Georgia educators about the vital matters that concern their profession and seek the required action when it is needed. The Georgia Teachers Organization maintains an email network, so the organization communicate with the members easily. The GTO is inviting the educators in the state of Georgia to join the organization by paying $25 annual fee.
Spirit Bulding for Educators
The GTO promotes any legislation that would step-up the educator benefits and spirit. The Georgia Teachers Organization mentions that all the states that border Georgia have educators
retirements plans that does not include any early retirement penelties, but Geogia does not have it yet. Other than for the core benefits of the educators, The Georgia Teachers Organization
also acts on many extra spheres for raising and improving the gains of the educators in the
state of Georgia.
The Georgia Teachers Organization promotes the authority to
increase the retirements benefits 3% per every service year. After 25 years of service, an educator will get 75% (25 x 3%) of a retirement salary contrast to
the current 60%. Furthermore, GTO maintains that since there are Georgia State employees who receive 90% of their salary at retirement, the educators should also
offered the same benefit.
The Opportunities
When one joins the Georgia Teachers Organization one receives several benefits such as being involved in an action list
which advises who to contact when important matters arise and also receiving email notifications about pending lawmaking
pertaining the profession. The names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of those who should be
reached to help pass significant lawmaking would be given to the members. Moreover, members would receive the chance to attend local, regional and state gatherings and meetings to gain first-hand knowledge about
the ideas that other teachers might present to better the working conditions.
