From: <nurev at STARPOWER.NET> ===================================================
After sending these union officer income figures out, I was asked how they compared to earnings of workers these leaders represent. I am sending the data again with representative earnings of workers in the related occupations/industries.
Top AFL-CIO Salaries & Earnings of Workers They Typically Represent ====================================================
AFL-CIO Salaries and Benefits/Allowences for 1998
Salary Benefits '98 Annual Earnings of Workers Represented *
[Union Official] [Salary] [Benefits] [Indust Avg. Annual Earnings]
AFSCME, Gerald McEntee: $352,404 $ 16,800 $ 37,076 (all public, including fedl.)
LIUNA, Arthur A. Coia: 335,674 86,120 27,196 (misc. construction trades)
ALPA, Randolph Babbitt: 314,995 34,000 92,768 (pilots & navigators)
HERE, John Wilhelm: 280,793 30,700 20,800 (hotel/motel) 14,872 (eating places)
UFCW, Douglas H. Dority: 264,152 58,167 17,576 (grocery stores) 30,420 (wholesale food)
AFT, Sandra Feldman: 246,563 94,932 35,805 (kindergarten, elementary, secondary teachers)
IUOE, Frank Hanley: 231,237 15,600 33,200 (heavy equipment operators)
SEIU, Andrew Stern: 215,218 7,800 16,016 (janitors) 20,852 (all social services) 21,996 (residential care) 33,072 (all hospital workers) 36,608 (registered nurses)
AFL-CIO, John J. Sweeney: 199,750 7,250 35,932 (all union members) 30,004 (all workers)
IBEW, J.J. Barry: 198,533 ?? 36,296 (electricians)
UNITE, Jay Mazur: 196,462 54,796 21,840 (apparel) 26,364 (misc. textile mills) 25,428 (finished textiles)
NEA, Robert F. Chase: 196,427 94,049 35,805 (kindergarten, elementary, secondary teachers)
BSOIW, Jake West: 196,390 184,750 32,916 (structural metal workers)
UBC, Douglas J. McCarron: 194,250 28,700 28,496 (carpenters)
CWA, Morton Bahr: 152,762 9,556 41,392 (telecom workers)
IAM, R.T. Buffenbarger: 142,801 57,871 38,749 (air transport) 27,976 (auto mechanics) 47,802 (aircraft mechanics)
UWSA, George F. Becker: 131,499 22,432 36,083 (iron & steel blast furnace & forges)
AFGE, Bobby L. Harnage: 122,746 15,109 37,076 (all public workers)
UAW, Stephen P. Yokich: 112,608 6,900 38,636 (motor vehicles & equipt.)
UMW, Ronald E. Cecil: 96,224 3,960 40,196 (coal mining) _____________________________________________________________
* worker incomes were computed by multiplying average weekly earnings X 52; where several occupations were combined (i.e., teachers), weighted averages were computed; in most cases, occupations and in all cases industry figures include management and supervisors, and unless specified (Sweeney), include both represented and unrepresented employees.
Source of worker earnings: Union Membership and Earnings Data Book, Bureau of National Affairs, 1999. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- =================================================== 9/15/00
In the piece below, CFR = Council on Foreign Relations. Arguably the most powerful private group in the United States. TC stands for Trilateral Commission. An offshoot of the CFR, and a forerunner of the WTO. The TC is no longer the powerhouse it used to be in the 70s and 80s. The CFR is still supreme.
These are the elite planning groups which supply the government with like minded, pro business, Internationalist personnel to lead and manage the US government as well as corporations, academia, labor, the military, and the media.
Nurev ---------------------------------
LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL -- In South Korea, France, Israel, Russia, Germany, and everywhere that Corporate Politicians are attempting to cut into, and weaken the rights of Labor, Unions and their supportive populations are in the streets and ready to fight against the erosion of their standard of living. Conspicuous by their non-action are the beaten working people of the United States. Here's why.....
FOXES IN THE HENHOUSE ,UNION BOSSES IN THE CFR -- ( past and recent ) I.W.Abel - Pres. United Steel Workers of America also TC Sol Chick Chaiken - Pres. I.L.G.U. also TC Thomas R. Donahue - Sec./ Treasurer AFL-CIO also TC Murray H. Finley - Pres. Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Victor Gotbaum - A.F.S.C.M.E. Lane Kirkland - Longtime President AFL-CIO also TC Howard D. Samuel - Pres. Industrial Union Dept. AFL-CIO Marten J. Ward - Plumbers and Pipe Fitting Industry USA & Canada Glen E. Watts - Pres. Communication Workers of America also TC Leonard Woodcock (wishful thinking)-Pres. United Auto Workers also TC Jerry Wurf - Pres. A.F.S.C.M.E. Jay Mazur, International Ladies' Garment Workers Union also TC Jack Sheinkman, Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union Albert Shanker, Pres., American Federation Of Teachers also TC
Look at what has happened to most of these unions since the ruling business elites got their Neo-Liberal policies established. There is NO ONE in American politics to represent working people.