{"id":6982,"date":"2009-08-03T17:21:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T01:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=6982"},"modified":"2009-08-03T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T01:21:02","slug":"hawaii-as-unions-struggle-leaders-pay-goes-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/08\/hawaii-as-unions-struggle-leaders-pay-goes-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii: As unions struggle, leaders&#8217; pay goes up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honolulu Advertiser: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/20090802\/NEWS01\/908020365\/As+unions+struggle++leaders++pay+goes+up\">As unions struggle, leaders&#8217; pay goes up<\/a><br \/>\nLabor executives in Islands averaged 9.4% salary hike last year<\/p>\n<p>At a time of rising unemployment and declining membership at some unions, many local labor leaders took home healthy pay increases in 2008.<br \/>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n<p>A computer-assisted study by The Honolulu Advertiser found that top executives of the state&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honolulu Advertiser: As unions struggle, leaders&#8217; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/08\/hawaii-as-unions-struggle-leaders-pay-goes-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2268],"tags":[1288941,3896,1288956,1288963],"class_list":["post-6982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salaryeconomic-benefits","tag-budgets-funding","tag-pay","tag-salaryeconomic-benefits","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6983,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions\/6983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}