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Post by highlander on Apr 19, 2012 15:37:26 GMT -5
The teamsters negotiators are amatuers.
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Post by Homer Simpson on Apr 20, 2012 11:34:06 GMT -5
The teamsters negotiators are amatuers. LOL, you are an amateur. Stop the name calling!!! You sound like a typical Teamster thug!!! Now excuse me while I go unwad my panties.
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Post by steps on Apr 24, 2012 6:13:27 GMT -5
This is from 2009......
Top Teamster Officials Get a Million Dollar Raise September 11, 2009: It’s a tough economy and many Teamster members are taking benefit cuts, pay freezes, or worse.
But last year our union’s highest-paid officials hiked their pay by more than a million dollars.
• Download the full salary report.
• See how working Teamsters stack up.
Many Teamster members are laid-off or taking pay cuts. But our union’s highest paid officials gave themselves average pay increases of nearly $10,000 a year.
Those are the findings of the $150,000 Club Report—a comprehensive analysis of Teamster financial documents and officer compensation by the Teamster Rank and File Education and Legal Defense Foundation (TRF).
Click here to download the $150,000 Club Report.
Last year, 110 Teamster officials received a salary of $150,000 or more—the highest number ever. Thirty-five Teamster officials made more than $200,000.
President Hoffa received the most total compensation of any Teamster official: $383,132.
While pay for working Teamsters is flattening out, increases for our union’s highest-paid officials are fattening up. Consider these facts:
Last year, the members of the $150,000 Club hiked their pay by a total of $1,041,276. Teamster officials in the $150,000 Club got an average pay increase of $10,000. That’s almost $5 an hour. Nineteen members of the Club got a raise of $20,000 or more. In his ten years in office, Hoffa has nearly doubled his annual compensation. He awarded himself a huge “housing allowance” to boost his salary above the level specified in the Teamster Constitution. Equality of Sacrifice?
Teamsters in freight, carhaul, and other industries agreed to pay cuts to help keep their companies in business.
Teamster freight officials on the other hand took home some of the biggest raises last year.
Pat Flynn, the head of Chicago Local 710, got a raise of $10,170 last year, making the total of his three salaries $287,949. Flynn took home total compensation of $356,430.
Bill Hamilton, the head of Philadelphia freight Local 107, got the single biggest raise of any official: $64,037. Hamilton got that hike when Hoffa appointed him to be an International Vice President, so he gets four salaries.
In carhaul, it’s the same story: pay hikes at the top and concessions for working Teamsters. Carhaul Director Fred Zuckerman gave himself a raise, but has helped management push through concessions on a local-by-local basis—gutting Teamsters’ pay and undermining the national carhaul contract.
Ken Hall, head of the union’s Package Division, got a whopping $21,594 raise. That’s more than $10 an hour. UPS Teamsters got an increase last year too. Theirs was 35 cents.
Salaries Up, Power Down
Across the board, our union’s power is on the decline.
Teamster membership fell by over 20,000 by the end of 2008. By now the loss is closer to 100,000.
Fewer members means falling dues income, which means fewer union resources to spend to protect members’ benefits, mobilize for good contracts and organize the nonunion competition.
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Post by Mr Hat on Apr 27, 2012 19:54:42 GMT -5
Why are we slinging mud in each others eyes? Look, the fact is the majority of us were tired of the PBA not doing a damned thing for us. FACT: Many of us lost faith in the PBA years before we voted them out. Membership went down. Therefore PBA felt it had no ground to stand on, and figured, why fight for an agency with less than 25% membership? (Which is how it was prior to the teamster stepping up). Now the funny thing I see and hear from a lot of those who have been around for ages (sorry those of you close to retirement), is this VERY same thing happened when the PBA stepped up and became the bargaining "association" for us. The PBA did many a negotiation via the telephone with FL Legislatures (Only involved with US legislatures when it affected them directly, not us). The Teamsters not only dealt with FL, but other states as well. They like the face to face negotiations, instead of using the phone. You guys are so concentrated on your own little cornet of the world, you fail to look around at the big picture. Give EVERYONE a chance to prove themselves, and you will see, we have more experience behind us now than we had before.
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Post by lawton on Apr 28, 2012 16:09:35 GMT -5
The fact is the PBA got more than other unions did from the state a lot of years when anything was given out and the teamsters didn't get us anything this year but a reaming even worse than most other state employees got.
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Post by Mr Hat on Apr 29, 2012 8:38:27 GMT -5
Lawton, look at FHP's contract. Look at it the year before. Thank the PBA for that one.
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Post by lawton on May 14, 2012 17:39:24 GMT -5
Lawton, look at FHP's contract. Look at it the year before. Thank the PBA for that one. The last year any state agency got a true raise and not a bonus was the year PBA got FHP 5%... while the other unions got nothing for their state people.
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