The bosses are real one-percenters.
From the Washington Times:
There can be riches in standing up for the working class: The Boilermakers union president earned $506,000, plus hundreds of thousands of dollars more for travel expenses, while the Laborers union president made $441,000. The Transportation Communications Union leader made $300,000, bumped up to $750,000 with business expenses.It's not just the Boilermakers Union--the bosses at the National Production Workers Union and the Laborers International Union of North America are also raking in the cash.
Patrick W. Flynn makes $435,000 a year in his capacity as treasurer of a 13,600-member Teamsters union local, and the $30,000 in business expenses he collects on top of costs associated with carrying out his duties around Mokena, Ill., approach that of a typical worker’s entire salary.
The average union member has no idea how much the leaders make, said Stanley Oubre, a retired Boilermaker in Louisiana — and can hardly relate.
"It sounds like we're getting robbed," Mr. Oubre said of the money earned by International Brotherhood of Boilermakers President Newton B. Jones. "I was a boilermaker for 35 years, and oh, my goodness, what we made was pennies" compared with that.
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