Labor Quiz: CEO's Pay Raise
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Pay for the average private-sector nonsupervisory worker rose just 5.7 percent
from 1978 to 2011, according to the Economic Policy Institute. How much did the
average CEO’s compensation rise during the same period? Click here and you could be
next week's winner of a labor music CD!
Last Week's Quiz: About 3,400
workers constructed the Empire State Building, taking just under 15 months. They
were mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers
from the Montreal area. According to official accounts, five workers died during
the construction.