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Median CEO pay rises to $9.7 million in 2012
05/22/13 APWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: wages, salary, wage gap, minimum wage
CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up.
The head of a typical large public company made $9.7 million in 2012, up 6.5 percent from a year earlier.
That's according to an analysis by The Associated Press using data from the executive pay research firm Equilar.
CEO pay has never been higher. It fell two years straight during the Great Recession but rose 24 percent in 2010 and 6 percent in 2011.
Pay is up partly because a bigger proportion is coming from ...
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11/26/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Wal-Mart, labor, wages, benefits, workers rights, unions, Black Friday
Groups from across the country protested Wal-Mart over the weekend as a show of solidarity with striking workers. Activists from the Tampa Bay area took their action to Pinellas Park on Friday at one of the big box retailer’s busiest stores. One man, Tyler Mitchell dressed as Santa Clause and stood in front of the store’s main entrance asking shoppers to stand in solidarity with Wal-Mart employees, but was quickly asked to leave the property.
Mitchell joined a larger protesting on the sid...
Be the first to commentFlorida farmworkers and supporters refuse food for six days in hopes of better wages listen
03/06/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Coalition of Immokalee Workers, CIW, Publix, tomatoes, fair food, wages, farm workers
Today farm workers and their supporters are in the second day of a six-day hunger strike in front of Publix corporate headquarters in Lakeland. About 60 members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and some of their allies are fasting to protest Publix’s refusal to participate in a program that would provide better working conditions and higher wages for workers who pick tomatoes. Previous protests have led ten companies to participate in the Fair Food program. Gerardo Reyes who works in ...
Be the first to commentLabor activists speak out against proposed state legislation that could slash servers' pay listen
02/27/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Tips, Gratuity, service, wages, minimum wage, 2012 Legislative session
A proposed state bill would cut tipped workers’ wages by more than half; from $4.65 per hour to $2.13. On Friday afternoon, members of local labor groups protested the legislation at the Outback Steakhouse in Temple Terrace. One of them, Bailey Riley, works as a server at a different chain restaurant in the Tampa Bay area. She said if signed into law, the proposal would pad corpo...
Be the first to commentProposal in Tallahassee would sharply cut wages for restaurant servers, bartenders and those that rely on tips
02/17/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: minimum wage, waiters, waitresses, servers, bar tenders, parking lot attendants, labor, wages
The Orlando Sentinel reports that: "Restaurant servers, bartenders and other Florida workers who rely heavily on tips are (paying close attention to) a plan moving through the Legislature that could slash their hourly wages.
The bill (SB 2106), approved by a Senate committee Thursday, would allow restaurants and other employers to pay their staffs the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13 an hour instead of Florida's minimum of $4.65. To qualify, companies would have to guarantee that emp...
Be the first to commentNOW President Terry O'Neill; Open Phones To Discuss President Obama's Speech About Afghanistan
06/23/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: NOW, Terry O'Neill, Medicare for all, Social Security Administration, wages, US Supreme Court, abortion, domestic terrorism, Roe vs Wade, Walmart
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming uu we'll have open phones to discuss President Obama's speech last night about a partial withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. First, three listener comments about yesterday's interview about the pending cut in state worker's pay. Then we'll hear from the president of the National Organization for Women terry O'Neill. NOW is holding it's nationwide convention in Tampa this week. One of the topics to be covered at the convention is...
Be the first to commentHow will St. Pete budget crisis affect services and employees?
05/27/09 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: unions, St. petersburg, sanitation, city services, wages, benefits
Good afternoon, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. This fall St. Petersburg residents will elect a new mayor. The campaign is under way and most of the discusion seems to be centered on the future of the major league ballpark and what to do about structural problems at the Pier.
But some city workers want to ask the candidates about the city's budget problems and how will they deal with possible layoffs and cuts in city services.
Our guests are two union activists who represent ...
Be the first to commentInterviews with Ruth Benn and Rich Templin
04/14/09 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: military spending, war tax resistance, tea parties, union membership, wages, benefits Adam Hasner
Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up, we’ll talk with a spokesperson for the AFL-CIO about the employee free choice act being considered in congress and efforts here in Florida to undermine it.
Later we’ll look at the U.S. military budget and protests planned tomorrow - tax day against military spending.
But first: several listener comments. The first came in on Saturday- making the claim that WMNF has supported the military build-up in Afghanistan. Most of the rest of the...
1 commentsLabor journalist: Not so quick on the auto bailout
11/20/08 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Big Three Automakers, UAW, wages, benefits, single payer health care
Good afternoon, welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity, I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up: we’ll meet a Catholic priest who is one of the country’s leading peace activists, Father John Dear. We’ll also speak with a journalist about the latest on the possible bailout for the auto industry.
But first some listener comments about yesterday’s interview with Steve Yerrid, the lead attorney in the group of Florida lawyers who sued the tobacco industry 10 years ago on behalf of the state of Florida and won $15 b...
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