May 19, 2016
N.C. CEOs paid 271 times the average American worker
CEO pay for major companies in North Carolina continues to soar as income inequality and outsourcing of good-paying American jobs increases.
CEO pay for major companies in North Carolina continues to soar as income inequality and outsourcing of good-paying American jobs increases.
Right now there are hundreds of Americans in Illinois experiencing first-hand what happens when an economic traitor buys out their company. Not only is Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital shipping their jobs overseas, they are humiliating Sensata workers by forcing them to take down the American flag while training their Chinese replacements.
This video is the story of what happened when Bain Capital took a perfectly profitable, productive factory in America and shut it down because already being rich isn’t good enough. Now, 170 workers at an auto sensor plant are sleeping in tents to protest Bain shipping their jobs to China.
Call your senators now at 888-659-9401 and tell them to support the Bring Jobs Home Act. Our primary focus should be helping working families—not Big Business—by creating and saving good jobs at home and supporting the patriotic companies that create jobs in the United States.
Chamber caught using foreign cash to buy the U.S. Congress The so-called ‘U.S.’ Chamber of Commerce has been spending money it receives from foreign corporations and foreign governments to unload a torrent of partisan attack ads before the November election – over $75 million worth. The TV ads and mailers almost exclusively promote Republican candidates […]
In the past decade, more than 5 million manufacturing jobs and 850,000 information sector jobs have disappeared—many of which have been shipped overseas. This outsourcing is encouraged by faulty trade and tax policies that corporate executives use to boost record-breaking profits and outrageous and obscene executive salaries.
But finding out specific information on specific companies sending American jobs overseas and devastating their communities has been nearly impossible—until now. The AFL-CIO and Working America’s new Job Tracker database lists information on more than 400,000 corporations that have exported jobs overseas, violated health and safety codes or engaged in discriminatory or other illegal practice. (Check it out at http://t.co/qbg7wwm.)
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, in a conference call with reporters this morning, said Job Tracker’s searchable by ZIP code and the interactive database gives:
“everyday people the opportunity to actually see what is happening in their community and shine the light on what corporations are doing. For the first time, working people have one place to see the real impact of the failed policies of the past that gave corporations the ability to ship American jobs overseas.”
With this new data as a benchmark, working people will have the ability to separate the economic patriots from the corporate traitors at the ballot box.
On the side of teachers, firefighters, public safety officers… Last week, Congress passed and the President quickly signed into law a bill that will save literally hundreds of thousands of American jobs. The law provides $16 billion in Medicaid funding assistance and $10 billion for teachers’ jobs. Failure to pass this bill would have meant […]
The North Carolina State AFL-CIO is the largest association of local unions and union councils in North Carolina, representing over one-hundred and forty-thousand union members, fighting for good jobs, safe workplaces, workers’ rights, consumer protections, and quality public services on behalf of ALL working people.
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