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Hefty salaries, perks for union leaders raise eyebrows

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — First-class travel. Six-figure salaries for half the 132 officers and staffers. Plenty of plum jobs for family members.

Life is good at the top of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers.

The union, with its headquarters in Kansas City, Kan., represents about 59,000 workers in the U.S. and Canada who make and repair boilers, fit pipes and work on ships and power plants. The recession has hit their trade hard, reducing union membership.

At the same time, the president’s salary has surged 67 percent in the past six years, not counting a recent raise. Add in travel and some other expenses, and Newton B. Jones received more than $600,000 last year, putting him at the absolute top of the presidents of the dozen biggest unions in the country.

Many relatives of union officers also ride the payroll.

Totaling the pay to just the families of Jones and two other executives, the union and its affiliates gave them more than $2 million in annual salary, according to the most recent financial reports filed by the organizations.



http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/05/13/1 ... union.html

Union members are retards. This proves it.

And it gets even better:

While their union pay may seem comfortable, some officers get a second hefty paycheck, thanks to a bank the union controls.

The union is principal shareholder of Brotherhood Bank & Trust. Three of the bank’s 11 board members are union officers, and one is a retired union officer.

The bank’s chairman? Boilermakers President Newton Jones.

In calendar year 2010, Jones received $52,945 as chairman of the bank’s board of directors in addition to his union pay, according to the most recent report he filed with the Labor Department. The previous year, Jones earned $79,775 as bank chairman and $260,000 as the bank’s chief executive officer and interim president. In 2008, he received $230,000 from the bank.

And better....

Being a boilermaker executive can be a family business.

Newton Jones, 58, took over the president’s office when his father, Charles W. Jones, retired in 2003 after 20 years.

Among Newton Jones’ family members:
• His brother, Charles, is director of the Boilermakers’ History Preservation Department and assistant to Newton. His salary in 2011 was $150,091, with total disbursements of $187,641.


• His sister, Donna, earns $98,802 as an executive secretary.


• His relative, Michael Peterson, is an aide to Jones and until last year worked for the Boilermakers National Apprenticeship Program, earning $132,746 in 2010, according to the program’s most recent tax document, and $127,252 from the union, according to its annual report for fiscal 2011. He told The Star he is now an international representative for the union as well as an aide to Jones.


• Jones’ son, Cullen, is a video communications technician who lives in North Carolina, earning $68,482 salary with total disbursements of $173,288 last year. He is 23, according to a court filing.

I say again: union members are retarded.

Greed is good.

kalm wrote:Greed is good.

Yep. But only evil corporations are greedy.

I wish I could say I am shocked, but is there any reason to expect anything different from unions? AZ is right on this one, union members are fucking retards.

HI54UNI wrote:

kalm wrote:Greed is good.

Yep. But only evil corporations are greedy.

No, no. Greed is only good when it's evil corporations.

kalm wrote:

HI54UNI wrote:
Yep. But only evil corporations are greedy.

No, no. Greed is only good when it's evil corporations.

I blame the SCOTUS for allowing the retarded fucking unions to have a level playing field with the Blessed American Corporation (genuflect now, kalm) in the campaign finance free speech derby.

And remember this: Corporations are people. Unions just leech off people.

Ivytalk wrote:

kalm wrote:
No, no. Greed is only good when it's evil corporations.

I blame the SCOTUS for allowing the retarded fucking unions to have a level playing field with the Blessed American Corporation (genuflect now, kalm) in the campaign finance free speech derby.

And remember this: Corporations are people. Unions just leech off people.

Corporations are not people. They are extensions of people or they are groups of people. But they are not people.

kalm wrote:

Ivytalk wrote: I blame the SCOTUS for allowing the retarded **** unions to have a level playing field with the Blessed American Corporation (genuflect now, kalm) in the campaign finance free speech derby.

And remember this: Corporations are people. Unions just leech off people.

Corporations are not people. They are extensions of people or they are groups of people. But they are not people.

Man, I can push that button every time, kalm! But I've caught my limit today.

Ivytalk wrote:

kalm wrote:
Corporations are not people. They are extensions of people or they are groups of people. But they are not people.

Man, I can push that button every time, kalm! But I've caught my limit today.

Hey man, you said it.