Local 804 Executive Board members and business agents raised their pay to the highest levels in our union’s history last year—the same year we got a 35 cent raise.

Our local officers now pay themselves between $143,000 and $156,000 each. These are the highest salaries for UPS business agents in the country.

Click here to download a leaflet with salary information and the full story.

By comparison, Local 177 officers and BAs are paid between $90,000 and $96,000. Local 177 represents around 7,000 UPS Teamsters right across the river in New Jersey.

Local 804 salaries for officers and BAs are tens of thousands of dollars higher than the salaries in Boston Local 25, Chicago Local 705, L.A. Locals 63 & 396, Seattle Local 174 and every other UPS local.

In August 2008, Local 804 members got a 35¢ wage increase. Our Executive Board endorsed this concessionary contract and told us it was “fair for the times.”

But the Executive Board had a very different idea of what was “fair” for themselves. They hiked their own pay by $4,000 to $10,000 depending on the officer or BA.

We have no problem with Local 804 officers getting paid fairly. We expect our union officers to work long hours and hard-working union officers deserve to be compensated for their time and effort.

But the salaries at Local 804 are excessive. It is hard for our officers to relate to our problems when they make two or three times as much as a UPS full-timer.

Paying excessive salaries also wastes dues money that could be used to increase contract enforcement or finance programs that benefit the membership.

Check out our local officers’ salaries for 2008. (Their 2009 salaries are even higher). And decide for yourself.  Click here to see Local 804 salaries on the LM-2 financial report filed with the Department of Labor.

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