National Legal and Policy Center -- Organized Labor Accountability Project
 
UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE
 
January 31, 2000 -- Vol. 3, Issue 3


 
For Influential Leaders & Important Decision Makers:
Information on America's most corrupt & aggressive unions


Union Bosses' Salaries and Benefits/Allowences for 1998
 
Union
Boss
Salary
Benefit/Allowance
Note
Natl. Football League Players Ass'n Eugene Upshaw, Jr.
$1,800,000
$62,895
1
Am. Fed'n of State, County & Mun. Employees (AFSCME) Gerald W. McEntee
$352,404
$16,800
2
Laborers' Int'l Union of N. Am. (LIUNA) Arthur A. Coia
$335,674
$86,120
3
Air Line Pilots Ass'n (ALPA) J. Randolph Babbitt
$314,995
$34,000
4
Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Int'l Union (HERE) John W. Wilhelm
$280,793
$30,700
5
United Food & Commercial Workers Int'l Union (UFCW) Douglas H. Dority
$264,152
$58,167
Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Ken Orsatti
$249,186
$65,939
Am. Fed'n of Teachers (AFT) Sandra Feldman
$246,563
$94,932
Int'l Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Frank Hanley
$231,237
$15,600
Service Employees Int'l Union Andrew L. Stern
$215,218
$7,800
6
AFL-CIO John J. Sweeney
$199,750
$7,250
7
Int'l Bhd. of Elec. Workers (IBEW) J.J. Barry
$198,533
not reported
Union of Needletrades, Industrial, Textile Employees (UNITE) Jay Mazur
$196,462
$54,796
Nat'l Education Ass'n (NEA) Robert P. Chase
$196,427
$94,029
Int'l Ass'n of Bridge, Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers (BSOIW) Jake West
$196,390
$184,750
United Bhd. of Carpenters & Joiners of A. (UBC) Douglas J. McCarron
$194,250
$28,700
Communications Workers of Am. (CWA) Morton Bahr
$152,762
$9,556
Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers (NALC) Vicent R. Sombrotto
$147,217
not reported
8
Int'l Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers R.T. Buffenbarger
$142,801
$57,871
Nat'l Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) Robert M. Tobias
$140,046
$2,160
9
United Steelworkers of Am. (USWA) George F. Becker
$131,499
$22,432
Am. Fed'n of Gov't Employees (AFGE) Bobby L. Harnage
$122,746
$15,109
10
United Auto., Aerospace &  Ag. Implement Workers of Am. (UAW) Stephen P. Yorkich
$112,608
$6,900
United Mine Workers of Am. Ronald E. Cecil
$96,224
$3,960
Ass'n of Flight Attendants Paticia Friend
$90,760
$14,672
United Farm Workers (UFW) Arturo S. Rodriguez
$11,809
not reported
Int'l Bhd. of Teamsters (IBT) Ronald Carey
$0
$0
11
XX
XX
XX
XX
XX
 

1. Compensation includes $ 200,008 from the NFL Players Inc.
2. Includes unspecified disbursement from the AFSCME Benefit Continuation Program
3. Coia replaced by Terence O'Sullivan
4. Babbitt replaced by Duane Woerth
5. Includes $ 16,578 in other disbursements
6. Includes $ 29,197 in disbursements
7. Gross salary before taxes.
8. Includes $ 601 in disbursements for official business
9. Tobias replaced by Colleen Kelly
10. Compensation reflects partial year's service.
11. Carey received no compensation because of legal complications, a Teamster official said. Later replaced by James Hoffa Jr.

Source: National Journal 1/15/00


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