The Orange County Teachers Union is under new leadership after cleaning house.
The American Federation of Teachers' executive council voted on the decision Wednesday.
The national teacher's union has taken over in a rare move that puts the president, union officers and the board of directors out of a job.
One board member who was let go said they all saw this coming and the majority wanted it to happen because the union was fed up with the dysfunctional leadership.
Every leader from the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association was ousted in exchange for guidance from the American Federation of Teachers, the national union organization in Washington, D.C.
"I think that everyone in our union knew this was the direction we were heading," said Wendy Doromal, a former OCCTA board member.
Doromal said the union had many opportunities to make changes and restore democratic policies, but it failed to do so under the leadership of president Diana Moore.
"Members of the board voted to ask for AFT to institute an administratorship," Doromal said.
AFT began an investigation that found multiple instances of election misconduct.
"There were allegations that officers or leaders used time and union resources to campaign during the election," Doromal said.
The AFT fired Moore on Thursday, saying she did not follow proper procedures. AFT also fired the rest of the union officers and board members.
"In the last year, at least four of those elections had been referred to be re-run because of internal interference," said Randi Weingarten, president of AFT. "Most of which was by the president."
While the rest of the union leaders are now stripped of their titles, they are still members. Doromal said she is looking forward to a better future for the more than 13,000 union teachers in Orange County.
"We're going to start with a clean slate," Doromal said.
Moore was being paid $85,000 as union president.
The AFT immediately appointed Dennis Kelly as the new administrator to serve until the union's problems are resolved. Leaders said they aim to have a new election by the beginning of the 2016 school year.
Moore, in an email to News 13, said she was on vacation when she received the phone call about the AFT takeover.
"I was accused of financial malfeasance to trigger this process," Moore wrote in the email. "Those charges were cleared. Our union has grown by 10 percent, we bargained a 6.3 percent raise, held insurance costs for two years and negotiated a three-year hold harmless on VAM. The truth will prevail."