John Curry: You can compare and contrast the top salaries of the two major teachers unions in Ohio

From John Curry

September 20, 2021

Compare and Contrast

Let's "compare and contrast" the two unions that represent most educators in Ohio. I think you will find a very significant difference in salaries. First, let me state from the very beginning that I am totally pro-union. I grew up in a union house as my father, in the mid-1950's, organized the first labor union at the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (formerly Lima Locomotive Works) and went on to become their first union president. In this early organizing process he was assaulted by three "company goons" at the Fourth Street Gate. So...I don't want to hear claims of "Curry's union bashing" by putting out the following statistics. I am not union bashing....I am furnishing union comparison data. Remember, just like good leadership or bad leadership, good executives or bad executives, good retirement system boards or bad retirement system boards there are also good unions and there are also bad unions.

The following data was compiled from the latest information from the U.S. Department of Labor. Every year all labor unions in the United States are required to post an annual statement of all their expenses, income, outgo, employees -- their salaries and other pertinent dats as required by federal law. The link for this information is listed below as well as the "Employer File Number" of both unions. You are most welcome to go to this site and make your own comparisons. These salaries were obtained by the most recent LM-2 reports submitted by both the OEA and the OFT in the fall of 2020.

https://olmsapps.dol.gov/query/getOrgQry.do

OEA Employer File Number 512-490
OFT Employer File Number 513-310

Should there be a union official unhappy that this information has been put out I say to them, If you can't stand the heat then get out of the kitchen as you should have known YOUR salary, like it or not, IS public information!"