HCEA Proud to be a Harper Creek Teacher
  • Homecoming Parade 2018
  • Retirement 2018 Celebration
  • 2017 Senior Walk
  • Raise Your Voice
  • Stakes Are High!
  • Homecoming Sept. 30th, 2016
  • HCEA RETIREMENT
  • Christmas 2015
  • Homecoming 2015
  • Spirit Week
  • August 2015
  • Recognition Ceremony
  • May & June 2015
  • 2015 May Negotiation Update
  • Ridgeway's 90 Day Plan
  • April News
  • FYI: FEB. 2015
  • June 2014: New Board Policy
  • Excerpt of WonderMakers' Report
  • Wonder Makers
  • Two Winners
  • FYI
  • Homecoming 2014
  • Back to School
  • HCEA RETIREMENTS
  • Celebration
  • FYI-Stay Informed
  • Reports: Clear as Mud
  • Symptoms of Unsolved Mystery
  • Road Trip to Ferris State
  • CO2 Readings at HCMS
  • CO2 Point and Counterpoint
  • Response To CO2 Concern
  • Future Worries?
  • March Update on Grievance
  • High School Conferences
  • March HCEA NEWSLETTER
  • Safety First?
  • BCPS Teachers' Solidarity
  • Dr. Rodabaugh's Report
  • Rodabaugh's Credentials
  • Point Counterpoint
  • MEA UniServ Update
  • Dec. 20th Tunnel Crawl
  • On Site Visit
  • Voices Via Harper Creek
  • HC Students Experience Burke's Metaphor
  • FYI - Surfing for Information
  • MEA Support & Process
  • Update on Process
  • Presentation
  • Voices of HCEA
  • Oaks' students & HCHS
  • December Newsletter
  • Boot Em 2013
  • Murder In The Heirs
  • November
  • Communications on Grievance
  • HCEA FILES A GRIEVANCE
  • More than Bricks and Mortar...
  • October Minutes
  • Wallerius' Art Classes
  • October
  • Harper Creek Students' Projects
  • Memorial in Grand Rapids to Unions
  • Homecoming Parade 2013
  • Staff Appreciation Breakfast
  • Aug. News & HCEA Breakfast
  • July News...
  • Board Presentation Via Fred Beachler
  • Betty Picard's Art Classes
  • Schofield's Class Find Voice
  • Bene Johnson's Art Classes
  • Zachary Wallerius' Art Classes
  • Barb Remaley's HCEA Retirement Party
  • HCHS ARTS
  • HCEA OFFICERS for 2013 through 2015
  • HCHS CLASS OF 2013
  • Harper Creek Teacher's Husband Returns from Afghanistan
  • FYI (Keep Informed))
  • Workers' Rights Rally Dec. 11, 2012 HCEA PROUD!
  • Boot em to the Curb
  • Nov. Election High Stakes
  • Six Ballot Proposals
  • The Time Is Now
  • November Election
  • Another HCEA Voice
  • Loss
  • Updates!
  • Common Good or Greed?
  • FYI Dates to Remember
  • Giving Voice
  • What is the truth?
  • Retirement Celebration
  • May 30th Update
  • Dues
  • Trends of Truth
  • Celebrate
  • Bargaining April 26th
  • Bargaining April 19th
  • United We Stand
  • Why Push?
  • Equity & Dignity
  • Unite!
  • CISD
  • Imp. Dates
  • Worker Bees Unite
  • Bargaining
  • Solidarity
  • Value-Added (Not)
  • MI Ignores Research
  • State & Local
  • The Public School
  • Transparent (NOT)
  • Sonoma Tree & Year in Review
  • Wattles Park Breakfast
  • HCHS Boot em
  • MI News
  • Don't Be A Turkey!
  • Miles to go ...
  • MEA PRESIDENT UPDATE
  • Dialogue Continues...
  • MEA Pushes Back
  • From the Archives
  • While You Were Teaching...
  • Lansing Update
  • HCEA and HC Events Save the Dates
  • Hold On
  • Introductions
  • Meet the Board
  • Community
  • CMU
  • CMU Photos
  • March on D.C.
  • The Dog Days of Summer
  • Knowledge Is Power
  • STEP UP
  • Keep the Faith
  • Local News
  • FYI
  • Pow-Wow: Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatom
  • Retirement Party
  • No Money ? Really?
  • Legislators $ and less work
  • MESSA CHOICES II IN TA
  • What is New in Lansing
  • Imagine...
  • MEA Radio &
  • Be Not Afraid...
  • While you were...
  • May 21st Lansing Rally
  • Trends of Truth
  • May 25th Bargaining Update
  • Mediation May 11th
  • 4/28/11 Bargaining Update
  • Local HCEA News/Participation Events
  • Questions?
  • Priority Health Update
  • May Update
  • Michigan Ground Zero
  • Historical Perspective of Teacher Unions
  • Solidarity Project
  • Solidarity Bracelets
  • Jase Bolger ?s
  • Jase Bolger Event
  • We Are...
  • State/National News
  • Local News
  • Solidarity Clips
  • Bargaining Team Update
  • Members' Words...
  • Inspirational Quotations
    • Fighting the Good Fight
  • Give Voice with Words
  • HCEA PROUD
  • Solidarity Forever
    • Looking Great in Yellow Green
    • Fire Snyder Page
  • Fighting the Good Fight
    • Untitled
    • What's New
  • General Meeting
  • FYI
  • Patterns Form...
  • Middle School Locker Room
  • Varsity Locker Room at Middle School
  • Up to Standards?
  • High School Snow and Water
  • Feb. 20th Second Day of Flood
  • Maintaining Schools
  • Tentative Agreement
  • Seniors 2017

Insurance and E-Dues

For insurance go to messa.org on the lower right menu click on ABC Plan.

e-dues go to www.MEA.org
Go to Members Only Login
(left menu) My Transactions/E-Dues
(small, blue lettering on top) create or reset your login and password.
("Primary city" is the city where you live. i.e. Portage, Ceresco, etc.
Once you create your account, you will be able to see what your total annual dues are.





As for Public School Retirement - Make your selection - go to www.michigan.gov/ors and go to miaccount.  The deadline is January 8, 2013 and your selection goes into effect February 1, 2013.



Teachers are Heroes Every Day

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Does It Pay to Become a Teacher?


by Catherine Rampell


Fortuitously,  in the midst of the contentious Chicago teachers union strike, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its annual report on the state of education and investment in education around the developed world.  (To read the entire article click here)


However, realize that "the average primary -school teacher in the United States earns about 67 percent of the salary of an average college-educated worker in the United States."  "The average upper secondary teacher earns 72 percent of the salary for the average college-educated worker in the United States."

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