Matt Patterson, Executive Director of the Center for Worker Freedom, had an article published in Forbes on October 18, 2016, about how union leaders make much higher salaries than their members:

“The income inequality that exists in this country is a disgrace,” said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in a May 17, 2016, statement about executive pay.

And Trumka is only one of many union leaders who rail against the evil “one percent,” who they claim exploit the other 99 percent for their wealth and power. And they’re right: there is a wealthy elite bamboozling and conning working class and getting rich off their labor.

They’re called union leaders.

Take Richard Trumka himself. He cut his teeth in the bloody union wars of coal country as president of the United Mine Workers union. Now, he heads the largest and most powerful labor umbrella organization, certainly in the country, possibly in the world.

His salary, according to union filings with the U.S. Labor Department, is almost $300,000.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau the median salary in the United States was $56,000 in 2015. And compared to your average rank and file union worker? In Ohio, the average hourly wage for unionized workers was $20.03 in 2015.

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