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Corporate Greed
More Fake Facts About CEO Pay from the American Enterprise Institute
The right-wingers at the American Enterprise Institute just can’t seem to accept the fact that runaway CEO pay is increasing inequality. Their latest solution to the growing gap between CEO and worker pay: abolish the weekend! According to AEI, if everybody worked a 60-hour workweek, then the CEO-to-worker pay ratio would be only 132:1 instead of 347:1.
Global Worker Rights
Would You Be as Brave as This Man?
Two brothers, Moises and Misael Sanchez, were bicycling home on April 13 toward the suburb of Santa Ana de Yusguare after a successful organizing meeting of an agricultural union near Choluteca in Honduras. The route took them along a winding road, up through small residential developments amid the canyons and steep hills.
Corporate Greed
5 Things You Need to Know from the AFL-CIO's New Executive Paywatch Report
Today, the AFL-CIO released the 2017 edition of its Executive Paywatch report. The Executive Paywatch website, the most comprehensive, searchable online database tracking CEO pay, showed that in 2016, the average production and nonsupervisory worker earned some $37,600 per year. When adjusted for inflation, the average wage has remained stagnant for 50 years.
Where Are We Going Politically?
President Donald Trump’s first few disorienting months leave many people wondering what governing looks like anymore. It’s time to look away from the political spectacle and take a deep breath.
Consider two opposing value statements.
Health Care
Senior Power: On Trumpcare II, Kentucky Activist, Breast Cancer Survivor Echoes Joe Hill: 'Don't Mourn, Organize!'
As expected, Leslie McColgin’s Tea Party-tilting Republican congressman voted for Trumpcare II.
James Comer of Tompkinsville, Kentucky, also was all in for Trumpcare I. Both incarnations would gut the Affordable Care Act.