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1. Welcome to the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) Local 604 August survey.  

You are a member of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and are represented in a Local Council, Local 604.  

The IFT represents 103,000 education and public service professionals from cities and towns of every size across Illinois.

The IFT is a member of the The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which represents 1.6 million members nationwide.

As part of the IFT, Local 604 is responsible for negotiating and administrering your contract.  In this survey, you will be asked about your negotiation goals and your experiences with and approval of your Local, the IFT and the AFT and will be asked for suggestions or comments.

If you are unfamiliar with a subject being asked, or do not wish to answer a particular question, you may skip that question.

This survey should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.  

The survey is anonymous.

Please do not copy or forward survey questions.
 
 
 
 
2. What is your current teaching position?
 
Early education
 
Elementary
 
Secondary school
 
Higher education
 
Other
 
 
 
 
* 3. What is your local council?
 
 
 
4. What is your seniority/tenure in your position?
 
0-5 years
 
5-10 years
 
10-20 years
 
20-30 years
 
More than 30
 
 
 
5. If you concentrate on one subject to teach, what is that subject?
 
 
 
6. Is your council currently in contract negotiations?
 
Yes
 
No
 
Unsure
 
 
 
7. If you were a local 604 union official and had to choose how to spent $1,000 on political efforts, how would you allocate the money?  Total must add to 1,000.
National politics
State politics
Local city/county/school board politics
0
 
 
 
8. If you could pick only one choice to allocate union resources to influence, which you choose?
 
Federal
 
State
 
Local
 
Other
 
 
 
 
9. How would you rate the effectiveness of your unions efforts to influence national politics?
 
Very effective
 
Somewhat effective
 
Neutral
 
Not very effective
 
Not effective at all
 
Other
 
 
 
 
10. How would you rate the effectiveness of your unions efforts to influence state of illinois politics?
 
Very effective
 
Somewhat effective
 
Neutral
 
Not very effective
 
Not effective at all
 
Other
 
 
 
 
11. How would you rate the effectiveness of your unions efforts to influence local politics?
 
Very effective
 
Somewhat effective
 
Neutral
 
Not very effective
 
Not effective at all
 
Other
 
 
 
 
12. Please rank (1-3) in order of importance for your union to dedicate resources:
National politics
State of Illinois poltics
My local school board
 
 
13. How satisfied are you with the following:
Very Dissatisfied Not Satisfied Neutral Satisfied Very Satisfied Not applicable
Annual pay
Health benefits
Health insurance deductible costs
Health insurance overall costs
Retirement benefits
Leave policies (personal/medical)
 
 
 
14. If you were to choose between these choices regarding health benefits, which would you choose?
 
To negotiate better/improved health benefits, even if they cost more
 
To negotiate to reduce my health benefit costs (such as deductibles), even if this reduces my health benefits
 
To negotiate to maintain my benefits as they are, even if this means a cost increase
 
Other
 
 
 
 
15. Please place in order (1-5) of importance for contractual improvements: 
Annual pay
Health benefits (increasing benefits)
Health benefits (decreasing costs)
Retirement benefits
Leave policies
 
 
 
16. If you could choose only one priority for contractual improvement, what would it be?
 
Annual pay
 
Increasing health benefits
 
Decreasing health benefit costs
 
Retirement benefits
 
Leave policies
 
Evaluation policies
 
Other
 
 
 
17. How satisfied are you with the following:
Very Dissatisfied Not Satisfied Neutral Satisfied Very Satisfied
Your school's adherence to the current union contract
The union's effectiveness in enforcing the current contract
Past or current (if applicable) negotiation efforts and results
Your local council's overall effectiveness
 
 
18. How satisfied are you with the following:
Very satisfied Somewhat satisfied Neutral Dissatisfied Very dissatisfied
Teacher evaluation process overall
Fairness of evaluations
Accuracy of evaluations
Evaluation consistency (year-to-year)
Objectivity of evaluations
 
 
 
19. Do you have any comments or suggestions you would like to tell your current negotiators (if you are in negotiations), or to the negotiators for your next contract?
   
 
 
20. Please rate your approval of the following as it relates to their approach to educational policies:
Strongly approve Approve Neutral Disapprove Strongly dissaprove
The President of the U.S.
The U.S. Congress
The Governor of Illinois
The State of Illinois Legislature
Your local city or county leaders
Your Superintendent
Your Principal
 
 
21. Please rate your level of satisfaction with the following:
Very Satisfied Satisfied Neutral Dissatisfied Very Dissatisfied
The American Federation of Teachers union (national organization)
The Illinois Federation of Teachers union (state organization)
IFT Local 604 leadership (local union)
Your local Council (representatives representing you directly)
Your building/school representative
 
 
 
22. "I feel I receive a good value for my dues."
 
Yes
 
No
 
Other
 
 
 
 
23. "I believe the union communicates with me effectively."
 
Strongly agree
 
Agree
 
Neutral
 
Disagree
 
Strongly disagree
 
 
 
24. If my negotiators are unable to achieve my negotiation goals, I want the 
 
Continue to negotiate
 
Move toward a strike, but slowly
 
Move aggressively toward a strike
 
We are not currently in negotiations, "N/A"
 
Other
 
 
 
 
25. Please indicate your thoughts on striking to achieve your contract goals:
 
I would prefer not to strike under most circumstances, even if this meant I continued to work under my current contract without pay raises
 
I would be willing to strike, but only if it is short enough I won't lose the pay for make-up days
 
I would be wiling to strike, even if it meant losing pay for makeup days
 
We are not currently in negotiations N/A
 
Other
 
 
 
26. Please rank in order of importance:
Contractually addressing evaluation system
Pay increases based on merit/evaluations
Healthcare costs and contribution
Retirement benefits
Personal time off/Vacation days
Pay rates vs. comparable metropolitan areas
Duration of contract?
Length of school day?
Length of school year?
 
 
 
27. Outside of pay, retirement, and healthcare, what other section, if any, is the most important to you?
   
 
 
 
28. Do you have any concerns related to safety that you would like to see addressed in the contract?
   
 
 
 
29. What is one thing that holds you back from teaching your students as effectively as you wish you could?
   
 
 
 
30. "I believe I have the school-provided resources to be successful in the classroom."
 
Strongly agree
 
Agree
 
Neutral
 
Disagree
 
Strongly disagree
 
Other
 
 
 
 
31. What, if anything, is missing?
   
 
 
 
32. If you ran the school for a week, what would you change first?
   
 
 
 
33. Second?
   
 
 
 
34. Third?
   
 
 
 
35. What is the optimal number of students per classroom?
   
 
 
 
36. How many students are you assigned per classroom on average?
   
 
 
 
37. "I believe I am evaluated as a teacher fairly."
 
Strongly agree
 
Agree
 
Neutral
 
Disagree
 
Strongly disagree
 
Other
 
 
 
 
38. How can performance evaluations be improved?
   
 
 
 
39. What four items would you bring forward if you were sitting at the bargaining table for the new contract in order of importance?  First:
   
 
 
 
40. Second:
   
 
 
 
41. Third:
   
 
 
 
42. Fourth:
   
 
 
 
43. "I have confidence in the financial and other data that my school system provides during negotiations."
 
Strongly agree
 
Agree
 
Neutral
 
Disagree
 
Strongly disagree
 
 
 
44. "I have confidence in the financial and other data my local council provides me during negotiations."
 
Strongly agree
 
Agree
 
Neutral
 
Disagree
 
Strongly disagree
 
 
45. Please rate the usefulness of the following methods of communcation relating to your union/negotiations:

 
Very useful Somewhat useful Neutral Not useful Not useful at all N/A
Illinois Federation of Teachers website
Local 604 website
Local 604 email communications
Union-sponsored Facebook/social media page (if any)
Member-sponsored Facebook/social media pages (if any)
Printed communications from the Council to my work
Printed communication from the Council to my home
 
 
46. Which of the following woudl you find useful to improve the communications from your local council?
Very useful Somewhat useful Neutral Not very useful Not useful at all
More frequent emails
More frequent printed communication to my school
More frequent printed communication to my home
Starting or increasing activity on Facebook
Starting or increasing activity on Twitter
 
 
 
47. The next three questions will ask you for comments on the state organization (IFT), your local 604 leadership and finally the negotiators and administrators working directly with you at your school or facility.  If you have no comments, you may leave these blank.
 
 
 
48. Do you have any comments you wish to share with the state leaders of the Illinois Federation of Teachers?
   
 
 
 
49. Do you have any comments you wish to share with the leadership of local 604?
   
 
 
 
50. Do you have any comments you wish to share with your local bargaining unit leadership?
   
 
 
 
51. Do you have any comments or suggestions for improvement for this survey?
   
 
 
 
52. Thank you for completing the survey.