Posted on 09/08/2014 9:37:55 PM PDT by george76
A Tulsa, Okla.,-based plumbers and pipe welders union is clearly flush with cash, as a dozen of their top officials made more than $200,000 last year, federal records show.
Plumbers AFL-CIO Local Union 798 paid business manager Daniel Hendrix $280,000 and financial secretary/treasurer Wade Pilgreen $272,000 in fiscal 2013, according to disclosures the union filed with the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Hendrix said his pipe fitters make about $50 an hour and work at least a 60-hour a week plus expenses, and the union staff is compensated at a similar rate for their roughly 80-hour work weeks. A person making $50 an hour for an 80-hour week makes about $200,000 a year.
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CUF’s website says it’s not anti-union but claims “big unions have opposed employee rights, engaged in self-dealing and corruption and made excessive demands that have killed tens of thousands of jobs and driven major cities into bankruptcy.”
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Pretty sure that the pipe welders union would be the main beneficiary of the Keystone XL pipeline. Building pipelines is complicated stuff, and their members are compensated very generously.
Some retarded person wrote this article.
$50 an hour times 80 hours equals $200k???
The unions bypassed all that lucrative overtime and just accepted $50 per hour but, a promise of a boat load of hours?
Uhmmmm. ..boo chit...
Oh, and...its $50 per hour for the first 40 hours and at least $75 per hour for anything over that, Not counting certain other hours that are worth even more.
It’s $250k at those hours and ain’t no one putting in 80 hours a week, as a pipe fitter, for 50 weeks.
What’s worse is the assertion that “union staff” put in 80 hour weeks.
Given the statement comes from Hendrix, it seems he’s talking about “union staff office workers” and not pipe fitters.
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