MSNBC Host Al Sharpton Rakes in Union Cash

By: Jason Hart | April 11, 2014

MSNBC host and world-renowned race hustler Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN), which paid Sharpton $241,402 in 2012, has received over $3.6 million from labor unions since 2005.

Unions reported paying NAN, founded by Sharpton in 1991 and self-credited with “coalescing Black and Brown communities to fight for immigration rights, and education and labor reform,” a total of $1,159,500 during their 2013 fiscal years.

Based on annual expenditure reports, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) paid NAN $300,000 and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) gave NAN $216,500 last year alone.

AFSCME President Lee Saunders, who was paid $353,580 by the public employee union in 2012, sits on NAN’s board of directors.

“NAN has worked on advocating at a federal, state and city level for job programs and to create jobs in the public and private sector,” the nonprofit boasts. Sharpton advocates bigger government and attacks its critics on his MSNBC show, as well.

The 20 largest individual payments to NAN that labor unions reported to the U.S. Department of Labor for 2013 were:

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