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Meet the Bosses of the National Education Association

Teachers' forced dues paid for 436 six-figure NEA salaries last year

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  January 4th, 2013 at 02:30 PM  | 

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Dennis Van Roekel was paid $389,620 in fiscal year 2012 as president of the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest labor union. Van Roekel was one of 14 NEA bosses paid more than $250,000 with dues taken from teachers in Ohio and other forced-unionism states as a condition of employment.

Based on union filings with the U.S. Department of Labor, 436 NEA employees were paid over $100,000 from September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2012. Full-time teachers across Ohio were forced to pay NEA $178 – in addition to $425 in Ohio Education Association (OEA) dues – during the 2011-2012 school year.

As current union contracts expire, Michigan’s new workplace freedom law will make Michigan the 24th state to protect the right of educators to choose whether they contribute to the following NEA paychecks.

  • Dennis Van Roekel, President: $389,620
  • John Stocks, Executive Director: $379,260
  • Becky Pringle, Secretary-Treasurer: $332,539
  • Lily Eskelsen, Vice President: $332,390
  • Andrew Linebaugh, Director: $312,479
  • Cynthia Swann, Sr. Policy Advisor: $296,833
  • Donna Healy-Dean, Director: $282,244
  • Ronald Henderson, Director: $266,700
  • Sara Campen, Organizational Specialist: $257,716
  • Barry Melamed, Associate Director: $256,381
  • Ht Nguyen, State Affiliate Executive Director: $255,646
  • W McLaurin, Director: $254,636
  • Michael McPherson, Chief Financial Officer: $251,635
  • Michael Kahn, Associate Project Director: $250,684

Although NEA and state affiliates like OEA pressure teachers to support “progressive” politicians, dozens of NEA employees are too wealthy by the standards of President Obama and Democrats in Congress.

The president has long sought to increase taxes on household incomes exceeding $250,000 and individual incomes exceeding $200,000.

Including the 14 NEA bosses listed above, 53 of the union’s staff and officers were paid in excess of $200,000 in the most recent fiscal year.

  • Michael Simpson, Attorney: $249,825
  • Leona Hiraoka, Director: $245,758
  • Al-Tony Gilmore, Associate Project Director: $244,670
  • Nathan Allen, Organizational Specialist: $241,356
  • John Wilson, Former Executive Director: $240,538
  • Barby Halstead-Worrell, Senior Director: $235,349
  • Frances Beard, Associate Director: $231,129
  • Alice O’Brien, General Counsel: $228,719
  • Thomas Blanford, Associate Director: $225,320
  • Karen White, Senior Director: $224,809
  • Willard Raabe, Senior Director: $223,443
  • Earl Wiman, Executive Committee: $219,481
  • Armand Tiberio, Regional Director: $218,396
  • Douglas Walker, Associate Director: $217,851
  • Daniel Hand, Director: $217,568
  • Bill Thompson, Senior Director: $215,719
  • David Duvall, Regional Director: $214,353
  • Lisa Nentl-Bloom, Organizational Specialist: $212,857
  • Kimberly Anderson, Senior Director: $211,263
  • Elizabeth Daise, Manager: $211,030
  • Daaiyah Bilal-Threats, Senior Director: $210,260
  • Maurice Joseph, Deputy General Counsel: $209,525
  • Kathleen Lyons, Regional Director: $209,159
  • Bouy Te, Director: $208,658
  • Robin Butterfield, Senior Prog./Policy Specialist/Analyst: $207,775
  • Laura Gross, Senior Prog./Policy Specialist/Analyst: $206,696
  • Segun Eubanks, Director: $206,646
  • Robert Eagan, Organizational Specialist: $206,612
  • Janet Dade, Director: $206,314
  • Candace Lilyquist, Organizational Specialist: $205,880
  • Kenneth Farrell, Manager: $205,172
  • Katherine Mattos, Communications Counsel: $203,645
  • Michael Edwards, Associate Director: $203,455
  • Stephen Behrer, Senior Prog./Policy Specialist/Analyst: $203,316
  • James Hristakos, Producer/Director (Broadcast Media): $202,557
  • Linda Cabral, Associate Director: $202,487
  • Timothy Dedman, Regional Director: $202,242
  • Roxanne Dove, Director: $201,654
  • Corina Cortez, Manager: $200,767

NEA and OEA argue that “good paying jobs” require forced unionism – which is true when the “good paying jobs” in question are union positions paid for with mandatory dues.

Cross-posted from Media Trackers Ohio.

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  • jaykayjk

    Right On Jason!
    Like Churchill once said: “Never, Never, Never, Never Give Up”
    Our Fiscal Cliff Song for your perusal:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQy0iwh_0Yc&feature=youtu.be

  • Cate

    Don’t forget… It’s for the Children. /

  • WmCraig

    I find it interesting that the Republicans agreed to a deal that spared both those in the legislative bracket, at at least those filling singly in the teachers union executive pay bracket

    Interesting, and totally disgusting. After going off the cliff, Lord Boehner, vassal of Obama, Holder of a congressional Blue state fiefdom at his lord’s grace, and speaker of the house, it would seem would have benefited from allowing an open transparent review of the bill before voting on it in secret while the majority of people were taking a day off.

    I wish these SOB’s had raised taxes on themselves and the succubus teachers union executives. Then maybe I wouldn’t feel so abused. No one will ever convince me that doing anything other then letting Obama have his way on taxes hurting everyone exactly as Obama promised in the election would not have led to quicker rejection of his policies and better results for Republicans in the next election.

    Remember, those who Obama wanted to protect are getting the biggest tax increases in my memory. But he won’t get blamed for it, or for the failure of all those taxes to solve the problem.

  • commonsenseobserver

    Did we elect them to play a blame game or did we elect them to keep the liberal welfare constituency as small as possible?

    Raising taxes across the board might have hurt these parasites who are not directly in the entitlement class, but it’d also have hit workers and entrepreneurs a lot more while expanding the workless welfare class, and those people there aren’t going to care about taxes on the productive.

    And when the liberal welfare class is expanded further, the Democrats would almost certainly gain dominance while the system totters to a total collapse a few decades later, just like it did since the New Deal.

    Perhaps we might be able to blame Obama in front of workers and entrepreneurs, but there would be fewer of them, and everyone else will see Obama as the savior upholding the welfare state which they will be dependent on when the economy is wrecked and jobs lost.

    Ultimately, House Republicans made the right call to keep taxes as low as possible on workers and entrepreneurs, even at the cost of real progress towards deficit reduction (in the fiscal cliff, coming mainly from higher taxes anyway, which Conservatives have always shunned, yet suddenly embrace because it was automatic) and punishing the liberals (who still wouldn’t suffer as bad a hit as the conservative-leaning strivers under the fiscal cliff), working with the horrible deal that they were handed by Senate Republicans.

    They made the right call for more people in work, and thus more people who vote against big government. The others voted for more people out of work, and more people dependent on government, and supporting the party that pledges to protect it.

    The short-term politics of blame and finger-pointing may be debatable, of course, but in the long run, they avoided adding millions more to the dole (and the party of dole) while punishing our own voters the worst. At the very least, the circumstances justified some benefit of the doubt from the most skeptical.