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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