Membership Dues and Union Finances
Membership Dues and Union Finances
Membership Dues
The NNU charges it’s direct members 2.2 times their base hourly rate of pay per month in union dues.
The NNOC at SLUH charges it’s members 2.030 times their base hourly rate of pay per month in union dues.
The chart below indicates what nurses earning various hourly rates could be expected to pay the union per month and per year.
What’s the best way to know what the NNOC will want you to pay? Ask them. They can tell you what RNs at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital who are members pay in dues. They can also tell you what their other members pay. Click here to see the NNOC’s letter regarding dues at Saint Louis University Hospital.
Like any business, the NNU has to pay its own employees and cover its operating expenses. The NNU also spends dues money from their current members to try and organize new members and on “political activities” with which their members may or may not agree.
Union Finances
Here’s a list of how the NNU spends its money according to their 2016 LM-2 report:
- Representational Activities (trying to organize more members) $3,680,722
- Political Activities and Lobbying $8,350,260
- Contributions, Gifts and Grants $211,303
- General overhead $10,692,421
- Union Administration $969,713
- Benefits $1,544,044
- Per Capita Tax $1,513,793
- On Behalf of Individual Members $47,194**
- Direct Taxes $409,121
**Don’t let the money spent “on behalf of individual members” confuse you. In their LM-2 report, the NNU also reported that they received $47,194 (same amount) from members for disbursement on their behalf.
