Bill Raabe

Bill Raabe is NEA's Director of Collective Bargaining & Member Advocacy (CB&MA). In this position he is responsible for leading the Association’s efforts in the areas of Collective Bargaining, Compensation, Health Care, and Retirement Benefits. In addition, he oversees the administration of NEA’s Legal Services Program, Educators Employment Liability Insurance, Fidelity Bond, Association Professional Liability, and Attorney Referral Program.

Mr. Raabe’s career with the association includes time spent as a local leader, state affiliate staff, the Director of Collective Bargaining in his home state NEA Affiliate, Education Minnesota, and the Manager of NEA’s training division. In these positions he has bargained hundreds of school employee contracts using traditional and interest-based processes, advocated for school employees at the local and legislative level, researched school employee compensation and compensation strategies, and authored articles on the use of collective bargaining to improve teaching and learning conditions and student achievement.

Bill has a degree in education, spent seven years in the classroom, and completed his graduate work in the areas of school finance, school business management, the conditions of quality teaching and learning, and has earned a certificate in Organization Development from the National Training Laboratory.

Outside of work, Bill is an avid runner and has completed over thirty marathons and hundreds of shorter races.