Unions today

[zflygrl]

Just check out what I have posted below...mind you they do not have the 2007 numbers posted....but the info is really interesting. See just how much Duane Worthless was making while the pilots he was supposed to be representing lost everything......I am now calling it "Legal corruption". Be sure to click on everything..... Unions today have lost their way...they have forgotten that they are supposed to defend and support the "rank and file".... to fight to make your members futures better. But no the folks at the top have now become politicians ... they vote in their own raises...ie and their own benifits...Such a deal...where do I sign up. ***HEY THIS IS YOUR UNION......TAKE IT BACK....GET RID OF THE BAD APPLES AND KICK SOME ....WELL YOU GET MY DRIFT***

FOR THOSE WHO ARE READY TO JUMP ALL OVER ME.....YOU NOW HAVE PERMISSION TO DO SO....HAVE A NICE DAY
http://www.unionfacts.com/unions/unionProfile.cfm?id=179
http://www.unionfacts.com/unions/disbursementSearch.cfm


http://www.unionfacts.com/downloads/Union_...Union_Myths.pdf


Top 10 International ALPA Leaders & Staff (by Salary) Name Title Total Compensation 2006

Duane Woerth President $ 485,411
Jalmer Johnson General Manager $ 395,454
Jonathan Cohen Chief Counsel/dir Legal $ 382,641
Bruce York Director, Representation $ 379,586
Paul Hallisay Director, Gov't Affairs $ 330,648
Kevin Barnhurst Director, Finance $ 321,213
William Roberts Asst Dir, Representation $ 312,088
Don Skiados Director, Communications $ 310,454
Jim Johnson Sr Managing Attorney $ 298,908
Jeffrey Small Sr Contr Admin/mec Coord $ 282,860


Union Administration
Air Line Pilots (ALPA) Financial Disbursements for 2006

Recipient Itemized Non-itemized Total

UNITED AIR LINES $ 397,862 $ 1,153,410 $ 1,551,272
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES INC $ 998,233 $ 469,363 $ 1,467,596
NORTHWEST AIRLINES INC $ 861,140 $ 193,906 $ 1,055,046
FEDERAL EXPRESS $ 913,708 $ 131,768 $ 1,045,476
DELTA AIR LINES INC $ 357,552 $ 644,458 $ 1,002,010
USAIRWAYS $ 300,921 $ 548,639 $ 849,560
KELLY PRESS INC $ 106,330 $ 658,643 $ 764,973
AMERICA WEST AIRLINES, INC $ 44,279 $ 541,099 $ 585,378

 

[whatkindoffreshhell]

Bump because this is sad.

Since union leaders' compensation be linked to their members' pay scales?? Up and down?

Term-limits would be a good idea.

 

[zflygrl]

Term-limits would be a good idea.
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[diogenes]

You can't hardly be more disappointed in union leadership than I. Having said that, you can't keep electing corporatists to office who construct a NLRB like this:

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/12/2...labor_board.php

and make people like this SoL:

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0204-06.htm

without suffering the consequences.

"As ye sow, so shall ye reap."

 

[700UW]

Employees under the Railway Labor Act, ie Airlines and Railroads are under the National Mediation Board, (NMB) not the NLRB.

But the NMB is just as bad.

 

[AAA73Pilot]

Unions today have lost their way...they have forgotten that they are supposed to defend and support the "rank and file".... to fight to make your members futures better. But no the folks at the top have now become politicians ... they vote in their own raises...ie and their own benifits...Such a deal...where do I sign up. ***HEY THIS IS YOUR UNION......TAKE IT BACK....GET RID OF THE BAD APPLES AND KICK SOME ....WELL YOU GET MY DRIFT***

Thanks for a great post!!! You're really making a great case to dump ALPA. If you can't beat'em, leave'm.