Office & Professional Employees (OPEIU)

OPEIU's Locals and Other Affiliated Organizations

Union	Unit Name/Location	Members
Office & Professional Employees National Headquarters	New York, NY	101,041
Office & Professional Employees Local 153	New York, NY	16,657
Office & Professional Employees Local 4873	Savannah, GA	12,755
Office & Professional Employees Local 277	Fort Worth, TX	6,234
Office & Professional Employees Local 2	Silver Spring, MD	5,768
Office & Professional Employees Local 8	Seattle, WA	5,041
Office & Professional Employees Local 30	Claremont, CA	4,830
Office & Professional Employees Local 32	Union, NJ	4,803
Office & Professional Employees Local 6	Quincy, MA	4,600
Office & Professional Employees Local	Hawaii Nurses Association Opeiu Local 50 Honolulu, HI	3,926

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The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), which is enforced by the Office of Labor-Management Standards, requires labor unions to file annual reports detailing their operations. Contained in those reports are breakdowns of each union's spending, income and other financial information.

The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) requires unions to report how they spent their money in a number of categories. For the first five, OLMS requires unions to provide detailed information on any recipient that received more than $5,000 per year.

Total Spent in 2011: $19,631,013.00

Spending Breakdown

• Representational^?: $5,475,299.00 (27.89%)
• Political Activities and Lobbying^?: $265,424.00 (1.35%)
• Contributions, Gifts, and Grants^?: $598,496.00 (3.05%)
• General Overhead^?: $3,289,034.00 (16.75%)
• Union Administration^?: $4,532,200.00 (23.09%)
• Strike Benefits^?: $0.00 (0.00%)
• To Union Officers^?: $673,035.00 (3.43%)
• To Union Employees^?: $2,314,974.00 (11.79%)
• Education^?: $0.00 (0.00%)
• Fees^?: $0.00 (0.00%)

Total Members: 101,041

Top Ten Highest Paid Leaders

Name	Title	Total Compensation
CARL MICHAEL GOODWIN	PRESIDENT	$333,445.00
KEVIN KISTLER	DIRECTOR-ORGNZ/FIELD SERV	$318,656.00
MARY MAHONEY	SECRETARY-TREASURER	$263,407.00
NICOLE KORKOLIS	DIRECTOR-COMM/ED/RESEARCH	$194,658.00
PAUL HUERTAS	ADMIN ASSISTANT/ORGANIZER	$160,949.00
PAUL BOHELSKI	SENIOR INT'L REPRESENT	$159,825.00
JEFFERY RUSICH	INTERNATIONAL REPRESENT	$157,005.00
GARY KIRKLAND	SPECIAL ASSIST TO PRES	$150,750.00
JULIET CASEY	ASSIST TO INT'L SEC-TREAS	$148,999.00
GARY NUBER	SENIOR INT'L REPRESENT	$125,116.00

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FEC

Overall Contributions

Democrats: $1,374,513.00 (0.9867)

Republicans: $7,500.00 (0.0054)

OPEIU's Political Action Committees

Political Action Committee	Total Contributed
Office & Professional Employees Union	$1,372,968.00
Office & Professional Employees 153	$19,970.00
Office & Professional Employees 2	$75.00

Federal Lobbying

Total Spent Lobbying: $1,370,000.00

OPEIU's Major Issues

Issue	Total Spent Lobbying
Health Issues	$1,010,000.00

OPEIU Lobbying Groups

Client	Total Spent Lobbying
Office & Professional Employees Union	$1,370,000.00

Corruption and Embezzlement Charges

The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) conducts investigations to determine if violations of the Labor-Management Relations and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) provisions have occurred.

Investigations are initiated based on various sources such as complaints from union members; information developed by OLMS as a result of reviewing reports filed; information developed during an OLMS audit of a union’s books and records; and information obtained from other government agencies. Investigations may involve civil matters (such as an election of union officers) or criminal matters (such as embezzlement of union funds).

Type of Criminal Activity	Number of Incidents
Criminal Charges	1
Embezzlement Charges	4
Guilty Pleas	3
Indictments	2
Officials Sentenced	2

The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) has responsibility under the Labor-Management Relations and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) to conduct audits to determine if unions are complying with the law.

OLMS uses a streamlined audit approach called the Compliance Audit Program (CAP) to audit local unions which utilizes specialized records review and investigative techniques to verify LMRDA compliance.

Local	Violations	View Audit
OPEIU Local 1021	0	Full Audit Text
OPEIU Local 104	1	Full Audit Text
OPEIU Local 9	8	Full Audit Text
OPEIU Local 13	3	Full Audit Text
OPEIU Local 5		Full Audit Text
OPEIU Local 39		Full Audit Text

Unionized employees can elect to revoke a union's right to represent them through a process called a decertification. In order to decertify a union, a majority of the unionized employees must vote to remove the union in an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

Total Decertification Petitions: 99

Recent Decertification Petitions

Case Number	Name/Union	Date Filed
05-RD-01457	Sheet Metal Workers' National Pension Fund Local 2, Office and Professional Employees International Union, AFL-CIO	February 19th, 2009
08-RD-02133	First Student OAPSE Local 791	January 26th, 2009
13-RD-02603	Arc Bridges American Federation of Professionals	November 19th, 2008
18-RD-02659	St. Paul Federal Credit Union OPEIU Local 12	October 31st, 2008
06-RD-01629	Harmon House Care Center, LLC OPEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania Local 112 and its Affiliate OPEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania Local 733	October 16th, 2008
20-RD-02461	Laborers' Union Local 389 Office & Professional Employees International Union, Local 3	August 18th, 2008
24-RD-00518	Avance en Puerto Rico Union International de Empleados Profesionales y de Oficinas, AFL-CIO-CLC	July 3rd, 2008
30-RD-01490	Seagrave Fire Apparatus, LLC Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 95, AFL-CIO	January 31st, 2008
16-RD-01575	IBEW Local Union 20 Professional & Clerical Workers Local Union 2348	December 28th, 2007
12-RD-01042	First Coast Community Credit Union OPEIU Local 337	December 17th, 2007

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Unionized employees, business owners, managers, and others often bring labor law charges against unions. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) oversees the porcess of determining if the union violated the National Labor Relations Act.

Allegation	Cases Filed
Duty of Fair Representation	341
Other Allegations	107
Union Security Related (including Beck)	19
Coercive Statements	18
Bad Faith/Surface Bargaining (Succeeding Contract)	13
Union Security Related	10
Threatening Statements	10
Refusal to Furnish Information	8
Notification requirements [Sec. 8(d)]	6
Failure to Sign Agreement	6
Resignation of Membership (Patternmakers)	6
Refusal to Bargain (Succeeding Contract)	5
Hiring Halls	4
Bad Faith/Surface Bargaining (Initial Contract)	4
Requiring Payments other than dues	3
Actions of Picketers	3
Waiver of Fees/Dues (Savair)	2
Reserved Gate Issues	2
Harassment	2
All Allegations	2

Employer/Location	Union	Days on Strike	Employees on Strike
American Red Cross - Great Lakes Region nt Lansing, MI	OPEIU Local	4	81
American Red Cross - Great Lakes Region nt Lansing, MI	OPEIU Local	4	200
Cornerstone Community Federal Credot Union Lockport, NY	OPEIU Local 212	10	73
Ingham Regional Medical Center (McLaren) Lansing, MI	OPEIU Local 459	18	500
Day Met Credit Union Inc DAYTON, OH	OPEIU Local 98	97	30

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Pensions

Pensions Linked to the Union

Pension Name/Sponsor	Members	Funding Percentage
Office and Professional Employees Iu Pension Plan Office and Professional Employees International Union	261	94.70

Associated Pension Funds

These pension funds are tied to the union according to their name only. There is no formal system for identifying all pension funds associated with a union. As a result, some of these pension fund may not be associated with the union.

Pension Name/Sponsor	Members	Funding Percentage
Ladish Co., Inc. Pension Plan - Opeiu, Local #35, Clerical Unit Ladish Co., Inc.	199

Source: Internal Revenue Service.