Members of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB) pay an average of $76.05 towards the salaries and expense reimbursements the union pays its top officers, plus $83.20 to cover the cost of conferences including officer trips to Switzerland and Italy.
The Boilermakers union reported membership of 57,203 to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, while 9 headquarters officers — each of whom was paid over $350,000 — received disbursements totaling $4,350,553.
| Name | Title | 2012 Pay |
|---|---|---|
| Newton Jones | International President | $729,630 |
| Warren Fairley | International Vice President | $530,053 |
| Joseph Maloney | International Vice President | $506,677 |
| Ed Power | International Vice President | $469,438 |
| Tom Baca | International Vice President | $456,439 |
| Lawrence McManamon | International Vice President | $454,540 |
| James Pressley | International Vice President | $425,528 |
| William Creeden | International Secretary-Treasurer | $420,769 |
| D. David Haggerty | International Vice President | $357,479 |
What other union expenditures burned through the equivalent of $13.25 per month from every Brotherhood of Boilermakers member?
Convention and meeting costs IBB reported to DOL for fiscal year 2012 — not including $316,383 the union paid Wide Awake Films for production of a marketing documentary — exceeded $4.7 million.
In late 2011 and early 2012, IBB paid Maryland-based Convention Services a total of more than $1.4 million, including $158,809 to send Boilermakers union officers to an International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
In March and April 2012, IBB spent $84,870 at the Westin Europa & Regina in Venice, Italy, $38,042 at the Westin Excelsior in Rome, and $35,440 at a Marriott in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Boilermakers union also spent $1.7 million at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, $174,794 at South Dakota pheasant hunting lodge Paul Nelson Farm, and $41,969 at Couer d’Alene Resort in Idaho.
The union spent $262,078 at the Hilton Marco Island in Florida for a 2012 “Winter Meeting,” plus $30,000 more at the same hotel on a deposit for the 2014-2015 Winter Meeting.
IBB paid Kingston Plantation in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina $70,920 for yet another conference and spent $34,825 at Leisure Time Unlimited for Myrtle Beach “meeting expenses.”
IBB spent $118,857 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri for a 2011 pre-convention meeting, paid a DC-area printer a total of $584,109 for convention materials, and paid Wide Awake Films $32,327 for video work at the convention.
In mid-2012, Boilermakers international headquarters paid the Hyatt Regency in DC $42,500 for its annual Legislative Education Action Program (LEAP) conference.
Including a sum of $60,569 the union paid two DC-area vendors for LEAP conference materials, the Brotherhood of Boilermakers spent over $100,000 for the political event featuring far-left radio host Bill Press, Democratic National Committee Executive Director Patrick Gaspard, and a senior Obama Administration labor official.
Other expenditures the Boilermakers union reported to DOL include $32,212 paid to private jet service Avantair, $48,593 for Washington Redskins tickets, and $47,500 for electronics from Apple.
In addition to the eye-popping officer pay listed above, five IBB employees in the union’s Kansas City, Kansas headquarters were paid between $250,000 and $350,000 in fiscal year 2012.
Cross-posted from the archived Media Trackers Ohio site.