I saw it on my local news, but I think it came from Fox. Here's the link.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/2012/07/05/big-labor-big-spending-part-2/
Hard to say these numbers aren't real no matter where they came from. I was surprised my dad would be rolling in his grave if he had one. Ouch. From the link.~
That's the finding from a 2008 study based on federal data by Paul Kersey, a director at the Illinois Policy Institute and former director of labor policy at the
Mackinac Center for Public Policy from September 2007 to May 2012. He studied documents filed by six unions in Michigan, the Teamsters, the UAW, Service Employees International, AFSCME, the National Education Association/Michigan Education Association, and United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
Kersey found that, on average, unions spent less than half of their funds on representing members for things like better pay at work.
"The picture that emerges" from federal data "is one of bloated, directionless union organizations with excessive overhead and administrative costs," Kersey said. Overhead costs for unions "are unusually high," he said.
Fat-Cat Labor Boss Compensation
Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, has said: "CEOs should be paid as a member of a team, not as a superstar," and that "the further widening gap between CEO-to-worker pay to an astonishing 380 times is simply bad for our economy."
Government documents show the following:
• Trumka: $293,750 compensation
• Gerald McEntee, president, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees: $479,300 compensation
• John T. Niccollai, president, United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 464A: $527,970 compensation
• Terence M. O'Sullivan, general president, Laborers' International Union of North America: $618,000 compensation
• Robert Scardelletti, president, Transportation Communications Union: $693,800 compensation
McClatchy Newspapers reports that Newton B. Jones, international president, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, received compensation totaling $607,000 last year. Over the past six years, his salary has increased 67%.
FOX analysts dug out more detail from the union's Department of Labor filings, which back up McClatchy's reporting:
• Jones's brother, Charles, is director of the Boilermakers' History Preservation Department and assistant to Newton. His total compensation in 2011: more than $187,600
• His sister, Donna, earns $98,802 as an executive secretary
• His relative, Michael Peterson, is an aide to Jones and until last year worked for the Boilermakers National Apprenticeship Program, earning more than $132,700 in 2010, according government tax documents, as well as more than $127,250 from the union in fiscal 2011.
• Jones' 23-year old son, Cullen, a video communications technician living in North Carolina, earned more than $173,200 in compensation last year.
• McClatchy reports the union paid $43,000 in 2009 to send Cullen to the Vancouver Film School in British Columbia, "Canada's premier entertainment arts institution," the school says.
• The union's "International Secretary-Treasurer," William Creeden received more than $252,000 in salary from the Boilermakers union in fiscal 2010, McClatchy reports
• Several members of the Creeden family make a good living working for the Boilermakers, totaling $624,000 in salary, McClatchy says.
