AL’s attempts to run the company in a radically ethical manner includes being transparent about salaries. The Economic Policy Institute reports that the average CEO salary is 271 times higher than the average employee compensation. AL’s salary is about twice as much as the lowest-paid employee — $38 versus $20 per hour.
Ravishly
January 6, 2020
- Celine McNicholas and others, “Unlawful: U.S. employers are charged with violating federal law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns” (Washington: Economic Policy Institute, 2019), available at https://www.epi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns/. ↩
Center for American Progress
January 6, 2020
From 2016 to 2017, just over 41 percent of all private-sector employers were charged with violating federal labor law in elections supervised by the NLRB, the Economic Policy Institute reported earlier this month. EPI also estimated that employers spent around $340 million on consultants and attorneys who specialize in “union avoidance,” better known to most as union-busting. EPI says its data affirms earlier findings, published in 2009, that “anti-union activity may be increasing among employers.” Hearst is part of a trend, and not a progressive one.
New York Magazine
January 6, 2020
Another article by Shawn Langlois via MarketWatch revealed much the same discussing a recent publication from the Economic Policy Institute. That study also revealed the increasingly inadequate retirement savings of Americans, as well as the dispersion of wealth among income earners.
Real Investment Advice
January 6, 2020
“Starting on Wednesday, there will be 47 new wage increases hitting workers in cities, counties and states across the country, according to the National Employment Law Project,” a CNBC report noted. “That means about 6.8 million Americans will start the year with higher wages, progressive think tank the Economic Policy Institute estimates.”
ETF Trends
January 3, 2020
We are all weaker because 25% of the benefit of the income tax cuts flow to the top 1% of earners. The same earners, according to the Economic Policy Institute, have captured 58% of all income growth since the Great Recession. Precisely at the time we should all be paying our fair share to ensure broad prosperity, we are amplifying inequality. We are amplifying inequality by handing tax cuts to the wealthy and by limiting the state’s ability to make investments that would lift residents out of poverty, while growing and strengthening the middle class. The inability to invest can be seen and felt across Massachusetts and we are weaker for it.
WAMC Northeast Public Radio
January 3, 2020
Companies are increasingly requiring employees to agree to forced arbitration as a condition of employment. A recent study by Cynthia Estlund at the Economic Policy Institute showed that 56 percent of non-unionized private sector employees — that’s 60.1 million American workers — are currently subject to forced arbitration.
ACLU
January 3, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a not-for-profit, non-partisan think tank that focuses on the needs of low- and middle-income workers, Bergen County is one of the most expensive places to live in 2018. The estimated needed salary for a family of two adults and two children is $105,042.00 per year. This figure does not take into account any aspects of keeping a kosher home. It is believed that kosher food can cost between 20% to 50% more than non-kosher food. This figure also does not consider the cost of private school. Combining these two unique needs will increase the basic number considerably. These facts should be strongly considered when planning to move to and raise a family here in Bergen.
Jewish Link NJ
January 3, 2020
Employers were charged with violating federal law in about four out of 10 union election campaigns supervised by the NLRB in 2016 and 2017, according to a recent study by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. Those elections were conducted under procedures the Obama-era board amended, which tightened deadlines and streamlined procedures.
Bloomberg Law
January 3, 2020
The cost of traditional college education is also a concern for students, said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based left-leaning think tank.
York Dispatch
January 3, 2020