Ripoff!-----Union President Heads List of Highly Paid Flint Employees – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Union President Heads List of Highly Paid Flint Employees – Michigan Capitol Confidential:
"A water department staffer, he gets $155k, including $20k to ‘standby’
The president of a city union is Flint’s highest-paid employee, collecting an average of $155,000 in both 2016 and 2017.
His annual pay was more than double the amount of the base pay due to on-call pay and other union-negotiated perks granted by city officials, as well as overtime.
Donald Lewis is the president of the AFSCME Council 25, Local 1799, which represents Flint supervisors and managers.
The city lists him as an employee of the Water Pollution Control Operations Supervisors.
Lewis collected gross pay of $161,065 in 2016.
The sum included $50,606 in overtime, $19,948 in “standby” time – defined by the union contract as being on call while at home – and another $14,906 for union business.
He also collected $6,357 in paid leave time..."
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