A reader writes to note that Jo-Ann Mort, the communications consultant partly responsible for yesterday's academic email fiasco, is paid $1,600 a day for her services to SEIU!
That's more than President Obama earns, and it's more than many SEIU members are paid in a month! That email was worth every penny of dues money though for sure...
According to SEIU's annual filing with the US Department of Labor, SEIU paid $315,687 to Jo-Ann Mort's consulting firm, "Change Communications," during 2008. And Jo-Ann and Bruce Raynor go way back apparently - her profile on her firm's website says that she was director of communications for Unite and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, "the predecessor unions to Workers United, an affiliate of SEIU."
