Other than the AFT's public employee division, the PSRP group incorporates the most varied collection of workers. PSRP membership in local unions ranges from the United Federation of Teachers, with some 20,000 paraprofessionals and secretaries, to tiny rural locals in places like Missouri and Montana that have fewer than a dozen members. A look at AFT's PSRP locals reveals a distinct split between the 435 that include only PSRPs and the 488 that include PSRPs along with teachers or faculty. The PSRP-only locals are much smaller, with an average size of 116 members, while the joint locals are more than five times larger, with an average membership of 660. A few other pieces of information about the union's PSRPs might surprise some people.
Education is another area that reveals some surprises.
Rather than being a group in which higher education is the exception, large percentages of AFT PSRPs have at least two years of college and many have a lot more than that. All rights reserved.