Some think tanks, media organizations, and politicians have asserted that most, if not all, union leaders are overpaid officials who are insulated from the concerns of their members. “[M]odern realities are colliding with problems that have long turned off workers,” claimed the Heritage Foundation, and “members’ dues [are] funding union bosses’ lavish salaries.” Fox News has asserted that, “[t]he union bigwigs are well-insulated from the paycheck-to-paycheck lives of most schoolteachers” while The Washington Times wrote that “despite unions’ focus on income equality… the rank-and-file workers toiling in factories and construction sites that the union officers represent especially pale in comparison with the top officials tasked with representing them.” And the 2012 Republican Party platform claimed that the Obama Administration had been “concentrating power in the Washington offices of union elites” rather than serving workers.