Honolulu Advertiser: As unions struggle, leaders’ pay goes up
Labor executives in Islands averaged 9.4% salary hike last year
At a time of rising unemployment and declining membership at some unions, many local labor leaders took home healthy pay increases in 2008.
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A computer-assisted study by The Honolulu Advertiser found that top executives of the state’s 27 largest unions and labor organizations earned an average of $135,135 last year, a 9.4 percent increase from the year-earlier period.
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