Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa just released a Press Release saying, "Teamsters Stand in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street movement." Really? Do they? The rank and file who have experienced lay offs, wage freezes and reduction in benefits may, but what about the leaders?
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa makes a cool $362,869 a year, recently retired SEIU President Andy Stern took in $306,388 a year, and AFSCME President Gerald McEntee makes a whopping $479,328 a year! (Sources: Union Facts and Fox News)
Hell, Sue Mauren, head of my Teamsters Local 320 makes over $238,000 a year, up from about $100,000 just five years ago. While us rank and file members have had four years of wage freezes. My own local has voiced solidarity with Occupy MN.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) have assets of $175,000,000 and the SEIU has assets of $187,000,000. My Local 320 has over $4 million. I'm going to bet a LOT of that money is invested in Wall Street. If the big Unions are really standing in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street then they'd pull their money from Wall Street, not just issue press releases and show up for photo ops.
To me it looks like Union CEO's paying lip service for the masses.
Just sayin'.
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