[lbo-talk] union salaries

[Mark Rickling]

There are plenty of partial-year salaries in the LM-2 filings, which
the UnionFacts.com data is based on. As far as I know no organizer
working for the International makes as little as $25,000 per year. I
certainly didn't when I started 8 years ago. I don't have the field
staff contract in front of me -- they're represented by a union, the
Union of Union Representatives -- but my guess is the current start
rate for an organizer is between $35,000 and $40,000.

Back in the good old days when I was an organizer, there was some talk
about Stern's salary, how it looked bad in anti-union propaganda the
boss would circulate to workers we were trying to organize. But now
that I'm a pork-chopper working in DC, I hear no such discussions.

On 5/23/07, joyce brothers <xenax2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Oh man.  I knew I totally missed you.
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> --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> > Ok, so all you SEIU people on here - I just read up
> > on your salaries
> > on UnionFacts.com. Andy Stern makes 10-15 times as
> > much as an
> > organizer. A guy I know with an MBA makes almost
> > $90,000, while the
> > cleaners make $17,000. What's the internal debate
> > like about the pay
> > scale, if any? What's the justification for these
> > gaps? How can
> > people work 60 hours a week for $25,000 a year and
> > not go mad?
> >
> > Doug
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