Look at it this way. George spends his life getting on and off airplanes and driving to out of the way places only to be ridden by guys like me.
Then you've got to factor in hotel/motel food, nights and days away from home, in all kinds of weather and under all kinds circumstances; inter-acting with people who have all kinds of axes to grind and all sorts of problems both real, personal and imaginary. Let's not forget George has to deal with all types of corporatists, every variety of politician and media personality.
He earns everything he gets and he should get more!
Tom Lehman
Doug Henwood wrote:
> [Original via Michael Eisenscher; reformatted, with total column
> added, and sorted by total, by your moderator. In 1998, the median
> U.S. household income was $38,885; average of top 5%, 222,283; of the
> $top 20%, $127,529]
>
> AFL-CIO Salaries and Benefits/Allowences for 1998
>
> salary benefits total
> LIUNA, Arthur A. Coia: 335,674 86,120 421,794
> BSOIW, Jake West: 196,390 184,750 381,140
> AFSCME, Gerald McEntee: 352,404 16,800 369,204
> ALPA, Randolph Babbitt: 314,995 34,000 348,995
> AFT, Sandra Feldman: 246,563 94,932 341,495
> UFCW, Douglas H. Dority: 264,152 58,167 322,319
> HERE, John Wilhelm: 280,793 30,700 311,493
> NEA, Robert F. Chase: 196,427 94,049 290,476
> UNITE, Jay Mazur: 196,462 54,796 251,258
> IUOE, Frank Hanley: 231,237 15,600 246,837
> SEIU, Andrew Stern: 215,218 7,800 223,018
> UBC, Douglas J. McCarron: 194,250 28,700 222,950
> AFL-CIO, John J. Sweeney: 199,750 7,250 207,000
> IAM, R.T. Buffenbarger: 142,801 57,871 200,672
> IBEW, J.J. Barry: 198,533 ? 198,533
> CWA, Morton Bahr: 152,762 9,556 162,318
> UWSA, George F. Becker: 131,499 22,432 153,931
> AFGE, Bobby L. Harnage: 122,746 15,109 137,855
> UAW, Stephen P. Yokich: 112,608 6,900 119,508
> UMW, Ronald E. Cecil: 96,224 3,960 100,184