The New York Post is reporting on the first available reports of union spending, because of a new rule, which took effect in 2004, requires unions with yearly receipts of over $250,000 (about 4,500 in all) to file detailed financial reports, itemizing any outlay of $5,000 or more.
- Iron Workers Local 40 in New York City gave its retiring president a $52,000 Cadillac (largely dues money). Or that the Electrical Workers Local 363 spent $10,000 in “golf outing” expenses at Kutshers Country Club in Monticello.
- New York District Council of the Carpenters union’s spending over $131,000 on T-shirts at F.A.B.Ulous Specialties, Inc., or one Musicians AFL-CIO local’s investing $670,000 in a bingo parlor.
- AFL-CIO spent nearly $250,000 for its 50-member executive council meeting in 2004 at the luxurious Drake Hotel in Chicago.
(At least that year the union execs didn’t cross picket lines, as they did last month at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, which the local carpenters’ union was picketing. )- Indiana-based Boilermakers Lodge 374 spends more than $10,000 at Wal-Mart, even as its national federation conducts a nationwide smear campaign against the business. It seems it’s true: Everyday low prices can’t be beat.
When union members pay out dues from the wages of their labor, they do so with the expectation of some return on their investment. In theory, those dues go to fund representational activities, such as encouraging higher wages and negotiating better contracts with business owners. But the National Education Association spent less than 15 percent of its $314 million budget on such purposes. By contrast, it spent more than twice as much (over $120 million) on union administration and overhead.
So thats what happens when those who belong to those corupt labor union gose its used to make life easier for those big time union bosses:lol:
And you get cases like the SEIU where they are supporting amnesty for illegals, which drives wages and working conditions for many (or most) of their members.
Way to go, SEIU! Screwing over your own dues-paying members! Bastards should be thrown in prison.
Way to go, stupid SEIU membership! Giving your money to corrupt Union bosses who are undermining you!
Robert is right, I worked for a company many years ago it was “not a union outfit after it became a union outfit” the company became a money maker for some and the other’s like me got nothing, i told the guys it would happen and it did, the company closed down and 200 people got no help from the union, end of story. but this story tells me that we are just doing the third world dance and most unions are now being ran! by third world guys, if you know what i mean?
side note, the union got some info i was against the union guess what happen to me? and yes the SEIU Has some political connection to Mexico, so yes the system is corrupt
It used to be an honor to be a member of a union. Now, unions will screw you over.
Do we really want to even discuss how much money the NEA gives to the Democratic party to buy pay raises without having to actually produce results? Like someone said on another topic, we don’t need to import any unskilled, illiterate labor, the public schools are producing enough of that already.
Yes, the wonderful Democrite Party, protector of all that is good! Also protector of the educrats, who are destroying the future of this nation by destroying the public skool system. And protector of the trial lawyers, who are destroying everything else.
Why do we need to import unskilled, uneducated, illiterate people when the public school system here is turning them out by the thousands?
Peejz, being a former nurse, I’m guessing you were most likely part of a union. How did you feel about that?
Alyssa- I wasn’t a nurse, and have not been part of a union.
I am happy to see that the expenditures are reported to the public….I believe that the unions in this country have run their course..The union is the ultimate legal pyramid scheme…the member pays their dues week after week and the only job security and pension assurance is for the person at the top! What jobs are we losing in the state of MI? union! Thankfully the suppliers got smart in the 80′s and early 90′s and diversified their businesses. When you see upwards of a billion dollars going into elections in one voting cycle..there are problems with a union. When you see the NEA spending just 15% on the members..there are problems!
My mistake. I got you confused with Lisa.
No problem.