IAM Stepping Up campaign

[737823]

The salaries are voted on once every four years by the membership at the Grand Lodge Convention.
 
I see you are lying again.

Tim addressed this before.

Josh

 

[AdAstraPerAspera]

IAM Personel

Make sure and check out the bartender/maid salaries at the end!

Between the 1st 4 salaries, your looking at over one milion a year!

Name Title Gross Salary Benefits & Other Compensation Total Compensation
ROBERT BUFFENBARGER INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT $253,914 $50,200 $304,114
….
AGNES LLOYD ASSISTANT COOK $15,341 $0 $15,341

http://www.unionfacts.com/employees/Machinists

 
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[southwind]

And most of those salaries you have posted are because they are union members and have a collective bargaining agreement they negotiated and voted on.
 
Did you vote on your salary or Anderson's?
 
He made over $12 million in 2012, just him alone, seems that is way more than any union leader.

Anderson works for a company that "Makes" money........wait..........I guess the union makes money too, just not as much.
 
And personally I think $304,114 a year, is a little high for someone who, supposedly, represents "The People"!

 

[Kev3188]

http://www.unionfacts.com/employees/Machinists

You ever bother to wonder who runs unionfacts.com? Who are the shadow men like Peter List? How 'bout how many millions they make annually? Here's a hint: Lots of your PS $$$ is going there.
 
 

TL;DR

Lol.

 

[WorldTraveler]

and DL actually delivers pay raises to its people who don't have to pay to support 300K union execs.

If unions could actually deliver even 1/10th of what they claim they could do for DL people, they might be interested but not only can't unions show that they can bring home the bacon, they repeatedly try to spread the contentious environment of labor-mgmt. discontent which DL people want nothing to do with.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that DL people are interested in unions since DL empooyees have voted "NO" more times in union elections than perhaps any group in the history of American business.

 

[robbedagain]

yep them pilots getting a lot more in ps alone than the rest of the group   just ask kev if he got as much in ps than other groups 

 

[WorldTraveler]

except they didn't get a higher percentage of profit sharing than any other DL employee group.

The fact that you continue to try to push an idea that is so inaccurate shows precisely why you and 700 do more harm than good in your supposed attempts to convince DL employee of the value of unions.

There is a reason why Kev is the only real person on this board that is qualified to speak for the labor movement and that is because he at least doesn't make claims that are so widely inaccurate that any one of his peers couldn't immediately figure it out.

You would do well to pipe it down and let other people who know a whole lot more than you do talk.

 

[700UW]

What does dl have 80,000 employees?
 
The IAM has 350,000 active and another 150,000 retirees.
 
Do the math on the money.

 

[robbedagain]

he cant bec it just doesn't fit his narritves

 

[WorldTraveler]

the math says that DL employees would be subsidizing a multi-industry, multi-airline union for which DL would be a relatively small concern.

DL employees, if they want a union at all, are not interested in helping finance unions at other airlines which can't deliver the same results for their employees.

 

[700UW]

Unions dont finance its members.
 
Dues are used at the local, district and international level so to support the membership.
 
Dont lie and use misinformation.

 

[737823]

Unions dont finance its members.
 
Dues are used at the local, district and international level so to support the membership.
 
Dont lie and use misinformation.

Right, the members finance the union.

And the dues overwhelmingly go to the international to support the cushy lifestyle of Buffy, Roach, Sito, Blondin, Cervantes, etc.

The IAM needs every last dues payer to merely survive. Deny it all you want but their financial position and political clout today is much weaker than it was a decade ago let alone at their peak in the 1980s. Like the rest of organized labor they are fighting to survive. Robert Roach spoke about consolidating DLs and LLs and possibly facing BANKRUPTCY back in 2008. How much of the members money have they squandered on fruitless DL organizing drives?
 

The five methods for calculat-ing dues contained in the IAMConstitution have served the unionwell for years. But the same eco-nomic forces impacting theemployers we bargain with areaffecting the Machinists Union,and the old methods are no longerworking.One thing that must be clear toevery member is that maintainingthe status quo is not an option.For the past few years theMachinists Union has been spend-ing more to represent membersthan it receives in dues. In 2007the Grand Lodge spent$10,000,000 more than the rev-enue it received in dues, and that number may be even greater this year.If this unwelcome trend continues, the organization as we know itcannot survive. This includes paying 50 percent of the salaries for allDistrict Lodge general chairpersons, District and Local Lodge servic-ing donations and special dispensations to qualifying Local Lodges,including 64 Air Transport Locals.Without a new dues structure that increases revenue, the IAM maybe forced to merge Locals and Districts, reduce or eliminate programsthat enhance representation of our members, close and sell the WilliamW. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center and face the realpossibility of bankruptcy for our union.

At the time of 9/11, the IAM had 525,000 dues-paying members.We have only 407,000 today. The Transportation Department had125,000 active dues-paying members in 2001, compared to 73,500today. An affiliation with the Transportation Communications Union(TCU) increased our membership by 47,000 members, but TCU members will not be paying full dues to the IAM until 2012, per the affiliation agreement

Josh

 

[700UW]

You need to learn to read an LM-2.
 
The IAM is financially sound and healthy.

 

[737823]

Keep up the denial, the union is in a much weaker position today than in the early 2000s.

Josh

 

[737823]

And your actives dues payer count has whittled down to 332k as of 12/31/13, the downward spiral continues.

Josh