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The Georgia Teachers Organization, mostly known as GTO, is one of the prominent organizations
that focuses on making a better environment and benefits for the educators in the state of Georgia. The
goal of this organization is to bring together all Georgia educators into a sole state organization which can talk out in behalf of the benefits that
they should receive. They believe that they could more effectively speak out for matters such as high salaries,
better retirement benefits and the abolishment of state salary step structure by which the older 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 important issues that concern Georgia educators.

Volunteering

The Georgia Teachers Organization states that they do not have "luxury" office apartments and none of their members run for elected
office. It is run by a group of volunteer members of the organization that work in order to achieve better
benefits for all teachers, faculty and staff members in the state of Georgia. The Georgia
Teachers Organization also tries to educate the educators on various issues, concerns, and rights, so the educators know what they are
eligible and take necessary steps when required. The Georgia Teachers Organization maintains an email network, so the organization communicate with the members easily. The GTO is requesting the educators in the state of Georgia to join the organization by paying $25 annual fee.

Motivating the Educators

The GTO encourages any lawmaking that would step-up the educator gains and morale. According to the organization every state that borders Georgia has full retirement benefits for educators after 25 years of service without an
early retirement penalty but Georgia does not offer this gain. Other than for the core gains of the educators, The Georgia Teachers Organization
also functions on many additional areas for enhancing and bettering the gains of the educators in the
state of Georgia.

The organization also state that the retirement benefit for each year of service should be increased to 3%. As a result 25 years of service would provide
75% (25*3%) salary upon retirement in contrast to the currently offered 60%. At present, Georgia state employee get 90% of the salary in their retirement plan and The Georgia Teachers Organization argues that it should be same for the educators.

Constructing Opportunities

There are many advantages of joining The Georgia Teachers Organization as the organization always keeps the members in the loop
regarding the latest growths in the front and info resources. The contact details of the individuals, parties, and
organizations are given to The Georgia Teachers Organization’s members, so they can directly have a dialog with the parties who are working to improve the standards for Georgian
educators. Moreover, members would get the opportunity to attend local, regional and state assemblies and meetings to gain first-hand knowledge about
the ideas that other teachers might present to improve the working conditions.