The Georgia Teachers Organization, mostly known as GTO, is one of the prominent organizations
that stresses on creating an improved environment and benefits for the educators in the state of Georgia. Since there was no single body for speak out for the educators in the state of Georgia, GTO has its objective to do what is missing behalf of
the educators who are in the state of Georgia. They believe that they could more effectively speak out for issues such as higher salaries,
better retirement benefits and the abolition 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 accomplish better
benefits for all teachers, faculty and staff members in the state of Georgia. The Georgia
Teachers Organization also attempts to educate the educators on various matters, worries, and rights, so the educators know what they are
entitled and take required steps when required. Using an email communication network, the organization will expand and notify their member of all the
relevant issues. The organization inspires every Georgia educator to join the organization by paying a $25 annual membership fee to beef up their efforts.

Motivating the Educators

The
Georgia Teachers Organization is activily working towards establishing legislations for better educator benefits, so it will uplift the
morale of the educators 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 benefit. Other than for the core benefits of the educators, The Georgia Teachers Organization
also acts on many extra domains for enhancing and bettering the benefits 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%. Furthermore, GTO maintains that since there are Georgia State employees who receive 90% of their salary at retirement, the educators should also
provided the same gain.

The Opportunities

There are many advantages of joining The Georgia Teachers Organization as the organization always keeps the members in the loop
regarding the modern growths in the front and information 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.