Thursday, March 3, 2011

Fat Cat Union Salaries Exposed!



The Center for Public Integrity's John C. Henry reports:

These are the 10 largest unions, noting the number of employees who earn more than $200,000, leadership salaries and campaign contributions to federal candidates in 2009-2010.

Union: National Education Association
Membership: 3.2 million
Assets: $216 million
The NEA, representing most of the nation’s teachers, has 31 headquarters officers and employees who earn over $200,000. The president, Dennis Van Roekel, received $397,721 in salary and benefits. Of the $3.7 million NEA spent on political activities in the last election cycle, 98 percent went to Democratic candidates. The NEA has 98,000 members in Wisconsin. Before taking the helm in 2008, Van Roekel received pay increases averaging more than 4 percent a year as NEA vice president. In 2009, public school teachers were paid a national average of $54,319 and received raises ranging from 2 percent to 4 percent over the previous five years. READ MORE...

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE REST...

1 comment:

  1. with how fast a so called "peaceful" protest did this much damage, imagine after the dollar is purposefully tanked by Obama's cohorts and real chaos and anarchy reigns down upon us.

    ReplyDelete