10/06/2022 | News release | Distributed by Public on 10/06/2022 08:03
Labor Quote: Josh Bivens
"Exorbitant CEO pay is a contributor to rising inequality that we could restrain without doing any damage to the wider economy."
Bivens is Director of Research at the Economic Policy Institute and co-authored EPI's report on how CEO pay skyrocketed in 2021, released on Tuesday
Today's Labor HistoryThis week's Labor History Today podcast: Socialist fairy tales. Last week's show: Pueblo steelworkers' historic strike.
Thirty-two thousand machinists begin what is to be a successful 69-day strike against the Boeing Co. (photo) The eventual settlement brought improvements that averaged an estimated $19,200 in wages and benefits over four years and safeguards against job cutbacks - 1995
1,700 female flight attendants win 18-year, $37 million suit against United Airlines. They had been fired for getting married - 1986
First National Conference of Trade Union Women - 1918
- David Prosten
Union City