Teachers' unions gave $43 million to leftist organizations in the U.S.

A couple of months ago the two largest teachers' unions in the U.S. gave $43 MILLION to left-wing organizations.

They can do that because they claim to have 4.7 million members, each of whom pays dues to the unions--which are automatically taken out of their paychecks and sent directly to the unions every month.

Damn convenient, eh?

But wait:  "AI" says that according to the NEA there are approximately 3.24 million public school teachers in the U.S. for the 2023-24 school year.  Not just union members but both traditional and public charter school teachers.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=how+many+public-school+teachers+in+the+u.s.

And yet Wiki (I know, bunch of lyin' rat-bastards) says the NEA has 3 million members, and the AFT has 1.7 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_labor_unions_in_the_United_States

Now I don't have a calculator handy, but because I'm an old guy who was educated before the teachers' unions took over, I can add 3 mill and 1.7 mill *without a calculator,* which gives...um...4.7 million union teachers.

But wait...AI just *assured us* dere were only 3.24 million total public-school teachers in the whole country.

Now, I'm an old guy, but seems to me the difference between 3.24 million total teachers and 4.7 million claimed members of the teachers' unions is *huge.*  So other than sheer incompetence and lies, what could account for the 1.46 million discrepancy?

One factor is that 27% of the 402,217 *university professors* are union members.  So now the discrepancy is down to just over a mere million.  Still a huge difference.

I don't know who's right, but I don't trust either AI or Wiki to tell the truth.