American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten recently pilloried President Trump's health plan in the Huffington Post: “GOP Rewards The Rich, Rips Off The Rest Of Us,” she declared. Is Weingarten among “the rest of us?” The union leader hauled in $472,197 last year.
Weingarten is hardly the only fat-cat teachers' union leader. According to the Department of Labor, National Education Association executive director John Stocks bagged $355,721 last year, while NEA president Lily Eskelsen García scraped by on $317,826. At the 2017 California Democratic Party Convention, California Teachers Association president Eric Heins ranted about billionaireswithout acknowledging his own $317,000 total compensation package. CTA executive director Joe Nunez's compensation is $460,000; associate ED Emma Leheny makes $480,000, and deputy ED Karen Kyhn gets by on $427,000 yearly. New York City's United Federation of Teachers boss Michael Mulgrew is practically working class by comparison, making $288,000.
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