A report reveals that millions of dollars in union dues are being diverted to family members of union bosses in the form of high-paying salaries. This practice, spanning decades, sees union leaders employing relatives in lucrative roles, often exceeding hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. The report highlights several union branches with conflicts of interest, including the Laborers International Union of North America, which employed over a dozen family members in high-level positions.
Every year, millions of dollars in dues paid by rank-and-file union members are collected by labor organizations and passed off to the family members of union bosses in the form of lucrative salaries, a
Over $11 million in union funds flowed to relatives of these organizations’ leaders in 2022, tax documents show. President O’Sullivan wasn’t the only leader at the Laborers International Union Of North America to have family members employed on the organization’s dime. Secretary-treasurer Armand Sabitoni as well as vice presidents Terrence Healy, Robert Richardson, Raymond Pocino, Stephen Farner, Oscar De La Torre, Joseph Mancinelli, Rocco Davis, and Robert Abbott.
“As these generational ‘leadership’ clans and cliques progress, you find that many of these executives and officers have never even been on a job site — that’s one of the things that happens with nepotism,” Mix continued. “The disconnect is growing wider and wider … not only just representing and understanding what the rank-and-file workers are dealing with day in and day out but with political ideology as well.
“Anytime we concede the working men and women of America to union officials, we’re making a mistake,” Mix continued. “The fact that labor unions get the privilege to claim America’s working people is just flat-out wrong. When you look union hierarchies and you find this nepotism, this corruption, and you find this complete disconnect with the political views of most rank-and-file union members, you know that something is off.
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