You’re footing bill for six-figure government union pay

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Watchdog.org:

Taxes siphoned by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees let the union pay its staff and officers an average of $103,623 last year.

 

Linda Canan Stephens, executive assistant to AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Laura Reyes, was paid $371,390. AFSCME President Lee Saunders was paid $348,745, and Strategic Communications Director Joseph Lawrence was paid $310,500.

 

Reyes, who was paid $279,910, was one of 10 AFSCME officers and employees paid more than $250,000 each in salary, “allowances” and other disbursements. AFSCME did not respond to a request for comment on compensation reported to the U.S. Department of Labor.

 

While private-sector union spending can harm workers, employers and hit customers with higher costs, taxpayers throughout the country are stuck with the tab for spending by AFSCME and other public-sector labor unions.

 

AFSCME deducts dues from members’ taxpayer-funded paychecks. In 21 states and Washington, D.C., AFSCME and its affiliates can take hundreds of dollars per year in mandatory “agency fees” from nonmembers.