Executive Pay Watch

aflcio.org

1 point·BrentRitterbeck··4 comments

For what it's worth, the AFLCIO doesn't list themselves in their list. Their CEO, Richard Trumka, makes over $300K/year... More than 5x the average worker, and he got a $50K raise in the past 3 years while his memberships incomes lagged.

How much does the Economic Policy Institute pay him to be on the board of directors?

How much is his net worth?

How is it possible that the AFL/CIO represents their membership, when 100% of 2010 political contributions went to Democrats, and none to Republicans? It's not even statistically possible that it MIGHT be representative. (source : http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cmte=C00003806... )

Their list consists of publicly traded companies. The AFLCIO is not a publicly traded company.

Also, I have no idea why you are bringing up anything about politics.

Agreed... they are not publicly traded, but they shouldn't be pointing any fingers.

As for the politics, shouldn't one who cries fiscal foul be judged for their own fiscal idiocy? I'm suggesting you consider the messenger when you look at their purely marketing-message-related website.

The point of posting was simply to show that a database of this information exists. Nothing more.

EDIT: If it bothers you so much that this information is tied to the AFLCIO website, I'll pull the proxies myself along with the companies' change in market cap for the period the pay figures represent, and I will throw it up into a website. Then it will just be a database of CEO pay and stock performance.

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