WORKING LEADERS
Lead By Example
A good leader should guide others by their behavior instead of by words.
A good leader works with you.
How is time spent?
There are three on the board that do not work on the floor.
What do they do? Ask them. If you can find them.
Comparison:
Local 6001. 3,376 Members. President works at her job 3 to 4 days a week. The VP? He also works.
Local 13301. 1,500 Members. President works at his job as does the entire board. Deployed a couple days a week.
Local 3140. 1,600 Members. President is 100% deployed. Area VP? Secretary? Not on the floor.
Local 2252. 1,300 Members Has AT&T, AA & Piedmont. President works weekly.
The largest Local - they all work.
The Local of similar size - they all work.
Local 3140? They don't work. Why not? Are they that busy?
Or maybe they use their time (and YOUR dollars) ineffectively.
Commitment:
Working with you. At the airport. At night. When all heck breaks loose. Weekly. Nightly,.
I will encourage all other board memebrs to do the same.
Working WITH you!
Get Mad.
Take Back Your Local!
9 Nov. 2023
FINANCIALS
Love em Hate em Need to Understand Em
You may have seen or heard about some statements regarding our Local financial info from a website.
The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), which is enforced by the Office of Labor-Management Standards, requires labor unions to file annual reports detailing their operations.
Each summer they become public knowledge per the IRS.
They can be retrieved form the LMRDA site.
Unionfacts puts that into a nice readable format.
The latest data is for the 2022 tax return
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Members 1,600
Assets $525,879
Employees 9
For 2022:
Total Income$489,252
Total Spent $611,406
Ouch. I dont like those numbers. We dont have full data about them.
Our local does not tell us.
For the past 2 years our spending has GREATLY increased. About 50% more.
How was is spent?
Representational 60% including:
$13K to hotel $13k promotional items. really? $13K is promo items. Bottle, cups and gizmos
Officers pay 29%
Officers are paid the same amount of money they should make if taken off manning
This is called Lost Wages when Deployed (taken off manning)
Pres. $83K plus $41 K in expenses. Whoa. Thats a lot
Exec VP $7k. Really. That isn't much at all.
Secy-Tres $38k
VP $30k
3 Area Reps $18k, $16k, $10k
Employees 15%
Education $0 (I need to change that)
If you click thru the salary on thier site you will see the breakdown for each person for each year and their title.
Remember - - - A member should only be paid the exact same amount as they do NOT make from working for the company.
Then add in medical and 401k.
Questions:
1. why does our presidents income vary SO much and end up MORE than pay from the company. Pay has NOT changed since 2019.
2. Why does our president take MORE in pay than top out income for the past 3 years
3. What does the Exec VP do? Supposed to be 2nd to pres and oversee all stations. Rarely deployed. Only about 188 hours of 2080 for the year. Very little
4. Why does an Area rep earn $18k? And the VP less than half?
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The Center for Union Facts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that fights for transparency and accountability in America’s labor movement.
We NEED to do the same.
Transparency
Accountability
30 Oct. 2023