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aflcio.org - 11/22/2008
Executive PayWatch Database
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G. Richard Wagoner Chief Executive Officer General Motors Corporation The proxy statement for General Motors Corporation uses the new SEC executive compensation rules. In 2007, G. Richard Wagoner raked in $14,415,914 in total compensation according to the SEC. According to the AFL-CIO's ...
hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com - 11/18/2008
AFL CIO Dropping Mailer In GA
— hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com — The AFL-CIO is launching a major effort over the next three weeks to help Democrat Jim Martin... best Sen. Saxby Chambliss in the GA Senate run-off. The group will drop a new mailer to 81K union voters and begin a "wide-scale" ground campaign. Last ... (more) AFL CIO Dropping Mailer In GA

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Daily Kos:  About Those Auto Worker Wages...

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About Those Auto Worker Wages...
Daily Kos — A couple of days ago Think Progress had a sampling of conservative opposition to an auto bailout based on the BS premise that the problem is the United Auto Workers union and its contracts with the American auto companies: Sen. Jim DeMint: "Some auto manufacturers are struggling because of a bad business structure with high unionized labor costs and burdensome federal regulations. Taxpayers did not create these problems and they should not be forced to pay for them." Sen. Jon Kyl: "For years they’ve been sick. They have a bad business model. They have contracts negotiated with the United Auto Workers that ...

Bailouts and the corporate form
The Reaction — By LindaBeth Some things have really been bothering me about the auto bailout talk vis-a-vis the financial sector bailout, and especially the recent Citigroup bailout. First, I agree with Rachel Maddow that something seems off when the (white collar) financial sector can get a quick bailout with few strings attached with no blame placed on employees and CEOs compensation structure (or any suggestion that it be revamped to take the federal funds), but in the case of the auto manufacturing (blue collar) sector, the quick blame is placed on the unionized workers, with their outrageous expectation ...

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