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On the eve of a Monday strike, the union that represents healthcare workers at the Motion Picture and Television Fund‘s hospital and facilities is taking a scorch Earth approach. The latest salvo by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West is providing Deadline with the MPTF’s 2011 IRS filing that reveals the premium compensation given top executives and employees at the non-profit. Obviously, this demonstrates the huge gap between what nurses and other caregivers earn and what the bigwigs make. (The average wage for a MPTF worker is around $45,300.) This info comes one day after the last scheduled bargaining session between the two sides ended in an impasse. It also comes after MPTF CEO Bob Beitcher asked “all of our staff to join in a shared sacrifice” on Wednesday in a statement on the organization’s website. Here is a list of what the top 5 MPTF officers and employees were paid in 2011:
Robert L. Beitcher – CEO : $775,978
(Salary: $550,860; Bonus: $196,666; Retirement/Deferred: $8,151; Other/Nontaxable Benefits: $20,301)
David B. Tillman M.D. – Former CEO (Retired in Feb. 2010): $848,662
(Severance Benefits: $597,320; Retirement/Deferred: $251,342)
Frank J, Guarrara – $581,023
(Salary: $332,129; Bonus: $50,00; Retirement/Deferred: $165,386; Other/Nontaxable Benefits:: $33,508)
Ken W. Scherer – $561,975
(Salary: $270.926; Bonus: $50,000; Retirement/Deferred: $211,765; Other/Nontaxable Benefits:: $29,284)
Seth H. Ellis – $385,372
(Salary: $240,817; Bonus: $50,000; Retirement/Deferred: $66,527; Other/Nontaxable Benefits: $28,028)
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Woa! They are all guys!
CLEAR EVIDENCE OF DISCRIMINATION IN THE INDUSTRY.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the compensation for executives at MPTF is in keeping with, and even somewhat lower than other non-profits of similar size and funding. It’s an easy ploy by the union to cry foul and reveal salaries because executives, which is what these guys are, will always make considerably more the 9-5 staff. It’s not that the union doesn’t have a legitimate beef in regards to a strike but this is a cheap, sensational shot. The salaries may seem shocking to you but in reality and in comparison to other like-minded non-profits they’re entirely reasonable.
Two of those bigshots aren’t even there. This was entirely misleading and attempt to embarrass and harass. FAILED.
this info did not come only a few days before the called strike that is now called off. The info has been known and is widely public for a non-profit. The only news here is that the union needed to get its members and other union workers in line because so many of them did not support strike so it drummed up outrage. No one should be surprised or shocked especially those who took part in this shameful attempt to harm MPTF.
This is a fucking NON PROFIT people. These guys are con artists. I thank the Service Employees for exposing this rip off. Now let’s see the salaries of those IATSE bastards…I mean officers.
Just another reason why my health insurance co-pays keep going up.
Con Men —
This IS an outrage, BUT by using street language (like the F word) you only enhance the corporate side of this argument. If you can’t “speak” in a professional manner, please post elsewhere. How old are you anyway, 15? PW
If the F word bothers you, avoid this site. Not only was the F word appropriate in his statement but Nikki herself uses “street language” on a regular basis where necessary.
Your right. Shine a light on these d-bags!!
Is the SEIU going to reveal the compensation of its top officers? That might be illuminating too.
It might be interesting to see, but it’s less of an issue, given that the SEIU officers aren’t the ones trying to cut employee pay while boosting their own.
The SEIU officers are just the guys trying to bury the MP&TF. Their salaries are as relevant as the ones listed here. The so-called news here is not responsible journalism. Get us some real stuff.
I’m frankly shocked. I knew it was high, and probably commensurate with their abilities – but this is way out of line for a facility like the Motion Picture Home. It’s more sad than anything else. You can be infuriated by this level of compensation, however it’s business as usual. As the SEIU union strives to keep healthcare co-pays at an even level, the executives are driving a Prius to work while the Bentley stays garaged. I hope you catch my drift.
What shocks me is that anyone is shocked by this.
There are not enough words to describe the disgust for these individuals. May they rot in hell.
Wow. I usually reserve the hell-rotting for murderers, rapists, and child molesters. While I agree that it sucks (excuse the “street language”), these guys are just working for the money that someone is foolishly offering them.
I want to break something. I’m scrambling to get enough hours so I have coverage and these guys should be paid less so people in the unions who are out of work and need coverage could get it from their crumbs!
The more we accept this type of behavior, the more money these guys well take for themselves. “Shared sacrifice” my ass. Read: low level employees, we’re cutting YOUR wages, so we can keep our profits & bonuses.
I can’t tell if you’re talking about the MPTF or the White House.
Hmmm… When you follow the money, it invariably leads you to the truth. This SAG-AFTRA member is supporting SEIU and UHW and I suggest other union members do the same… I really shouldn’t have to suggest that, but with our new “SAG-AFTRA union”, it is doubtful that they will stand up at all. So actors, stand with SEIU-UHW!!!
Every current employee on the list got a $50,000 bonus?
Oh and the top executive’s bonus was almost $200,000…
Just the the executives “bonuses” are more than the average total yearly pay of the staff. The CEO’s bonus was four times the total average yearly pay.
The compensation disparity is obscene. Have they no shame?
NO. THEY HAVE NO SHAME.
Thank you for revealing the honest truth.
Workers suffer while Execs make the big bucks. Where are all those anti-union comments about “entited, comfy, spoiled” workers? It seems the only ones with these nice positions and pay that are “entitled, comfy, and spoiled” are the higher-ups.
ALL WORKERS UNITE – POINT YOUR FINGER AT THE TOP WHERE THE REAL PROBLEMS ARE!
Thanks for exposing this. I have donated $$ to MPTF for the last time, that’s for sure.
This makes me so angry. I am never giving these people money again and I am posting this article and everyone else should too. Spread the word. Outragoeus!!!!!
Yeah and he saved all of your jobs there at MPTF. Great reward. Good luck to you.
I second that! Beitcher is a bargain at any price.
Robert, David, Frank, Ken & Seth why don’t you guys look up two simple words: Non Profit… Ring a bell, when you buy the posh dinner, the next Porsche?
To play devil’s advocate, qualified candidates would all have similar salary requirements. However, it is their job to be efficient and cost effective, and there is likely lots of wasted funds because things are not being run properly. Get someone in who has a proven track record of turning things around
It was like I said all along, the MPTF executives have totally raped the Motion Picture Home. “Taking care of our own” takes on a whole new meaning with them. They should all be indicted for fraud and conspiracy, and that includes the corrupt union bosses who sit on the MPTF board -they’re all playing us for suckers!
Every year I receive fund raisers letters, and often I receive calls and/or personal pleas to donate to the fund. I usually donate. This revelation saddens and sickens me.
and headof Saving Lives of Our Own is now apooogist for them. I see her every day Miss Nancy B. she is now bad as one of them. I looked up to you as we all did. She refuses our fight to be on the side of the rich men.
Maybe Miss Nancy B is on side of residents and patients and not apooogist or on your side.
Nancy has always been for the residents. She’s at the fund every day, and was at the fund frequently even when we fought for the future of long term care. It’s off-putting that she’s not involved in this fight, I agree – however I trust that she’s got her eye on the goal, which is to insure that the resident’s rights are not forsaken, and that long term care continues as promised. I wish like hell she would join forces with the caregivers – but ‘horses for courses’. I just with they’d put her on the board. I don’t think you would see this type of nonsense if she was in a real position of power.
SETH you need to donate more at Temple
There’s nothing earth-shattering here. They easily have 20 times the responsibility (interesting the “average” was quoted – not the highs and lows). I thought this was going to reveal salaries in the millions of dollars.
C’mon people, you’re getting paid a very fair wage for your work. If you think you can do better elsewhere, go to it. If you wanted to be an exec, you could’ve chosen that route. If you’re really not happy where you are I certainly don’t want to trust you with my life.
Yeah, I don’t see anything all that scandalous in the salaries themselves. The problem here is bad management, not executive salaries. I was fully expecting to open this article and see base salaries in the 7-figure range.
Now can everybody see where the money is!! No wonder they lost so many millions!! We ask only to keep our Pension and affordable health insurance! We are the ones that keep MPTF moving everyday!! So sad!
Wow. I am speechless that Ken Scherer made close to 300k last year in salary, and close to $600,000 all in.
This is the guy who does their fundraising and community outreach.
It’s absolutely obscene. Ken is a nice guy, but this is not a $300,000 job: The MPTF is not a national fundraising organization. It does not have a huge staff. The potential donor pool is relatively small. This is nowhere near in scope to a major university, a major museum, or something like the Red Cross.
There is simply no justification for these kinds of salaries.
Co-signed. Ken Scherer is a very nice man. However there is no justification for this kind of salary. Way above the line. Beitcher’s remarks have gotten him in very hot water with the board. Callous and indifferent to what his employees are going through.
Amen. And I hope all WGA members will picket alongside their union brethren at UHW. These nursing home workers face so many challenges on a daily basis, and yet have devoted their lives to caring for our industry’s elderly. And their mean salaries are $45,000? That’s shocking and wrong.
Meanwhile, Ellis and his cronies are raking in the bucks for continuing a PR campaign that has depicted them as heroes for doing what they should’ve done in the first place — keeping the home open. You know who kept the home open? UHW and Saving the Lives of Our Own.
Ellis left the building last summer.
Really people? These comments are pathetic. All of these salaries are negotiated by intelligent people at arm’s-length. Nonprofit or not, we live in a market economy where qualified people are paid what they are worth. If Ken or anyone else on the list makes more money than you do, then guess what? You are worth less in a market driven economy than they are. Yes I know that this is a charitable organization, and yes, I know that the rank and file, who work extremely hard, often at thankless tasks, make far less. But look around. That is how the world works. If you have an issue with how these people are doing their jobs, then by all means raise your concerns. But keep in mind that any new executive performing this work will be paid a comparable salary.
Ummm… Where to begin, with regard to the comment from Economics 101?
First, my earnings, and my success have nothing to do with this. You immediately assume my remarks are born of jealousy. They’re not.
Second, by your way of thinking, all is right with the world, and “that’s just the way things are,” from CEOs earning hundreds of millions of dollars a year (while firing employees, and figuring out how to get out of paying health care,) to college presidents and museum directors pulling down millions.
By your thinking, charitable or educational organizations should be paying private sector salaries.
By your thinking, the executives at these institutions can have it both ways: Private sector money, but public sector psychic rewards. (“I’m doing something selfless, aren’t I noble, but I also want a Porsche.”)
What I’m saying is that the status quo is wrong. And the marketplace has been perverted when these kind of salaries – for someone like Ken Scherer, who is in a job that requires no particularly unique skills or education – is earning $600k.
Further, I challenge your premise that these were negotiated by intelligent people at arms-length. I don’t doubt they were intelligent. But I do challenge “arms length.” How do you know this? Did an outsider grant those bonuses, or was it the board? And if it was the board, living in the bubble, why do you assume they have any realistic notion of what those jobs are worth?
The problems with executive compensation have been written about endlessly: Insiders, making decisions about other insiders pay, based on “industry norms” set by the insiders who set the pay scales in the first place. In other words: No objectivity at all, and a vastly inflated sense of what these jobs are worth.
Do you seriously believe the MPTF wouldn’t be able to fill that job for $200k? Or $150k? My bet is there would lines of qualified people outside the building, and the email inbox would be overloaded with resumes.
And finally, one last thing: Before you talk about the marketplace, it might have helped to do some research. The salaries here are way out of line to the Ford Foundation, the University of Michigan, and the United Way.
I believe in the free market economy. It dictates what I pay to the cast and crews on my shows. And what I’m paid by the network. But you know what? Every so often, I turn around and say “No. That job just isn’t worth that kind of money.” And I’ve never not found someone who is willing, able, and capable of doing the job for the less. Eventually, sanity prevails, and the market corrects itself. What I’m calling for here is sanity, and correction.
Ummmm… What you pay your cast and crew? I thought the networks and studios determined salaries of cast and crew. So you negotiate for the show and run it? Maybe you should take over MPTF. And if it’s your show then I imagine you get paid equal if not way more than Bob for less hours working. Interesting perspective you have.
A very “to-be-expected” comment from yet another “Above-The-Line”,
NO-BALLS member of the WGA. Below-the-line wages are determined by a collective bargaining agreement….not by the capricious decision of a film exec. But the truth is you’re “Above-The-Line” and you simply don’t give a rats ass what happens to the crew. Amazing to me that after 30+ years in the industry, I’m still astounded by the greed of some people, and the absolute ignorance of others. But before I lose focus on the D BAGS who are somehow defending the outrageous compensation imbalance of these executives, lets not forget, these guys were gettin’ theirs, (with Katzenburg’s approval no-doubt), while the RESIDENTS WERE BEING KICKED TO THE CURB in Woodland Hills. Shameful, absolutely shameful.
Obscene is the best word for it! Those “execs” should be in jail! This is exactly what the occupy wall street movement was all about. The 1% at the top is obscenely well paid while everyone else suffers. Makes me wish there was a 100K cap for ALL executives in the US that would be a US law. That way the middle class would have a chance again for a decent life. I wonder if this will show up on Bill Moyers this week. I hope so!
I see this as biting the hand that feeds them. It’s not a BIG REVEAL, tax returns are publicly available. It’s an INTIMIDATION campaign.
Once the SEIU resorts to these tactics, and this is only the beginning, what makes them think their employer won’t shut the doors, hurting many who depend on the employer. What happens to the union members then? In fact, this is what has recently happened all too often. It’s hard to believe the media and the rank and file go along with these tactics, but, obviously you and they do. We’ve seen them in action. They’ll reap what they sow.
One of the first sensible comments, yet. Two of those men are now gone. This is a union tactic that will backfire. Please we won’t to go back to the table and meanwhile try to embarrass you in the press. Be smart. You’re being used. Bob came in, kept the hospital open. Kept the SEIU workers employed. Cleaned house. Raised money. He is in charge of not only the hospital, but the clinics around town, all the employees, the patients. He is where the buck stops. He deserves not only his salary but the courtesy given to a man who has done nothing but kept his word. Look in the mirror before your witch hunt.
Below the belt, this tactic along with the ones before and the one after, backfired big time. The union rescinded its intent to strike by the grace and gallantry of Bob Beitcher. The buck does stop with Bob and he deserves every buck that he earns.
and he earns every buck he gets.
Isn’t it clear where the sacrifice should come from?
No wonder we had to start paying $50 per month!