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A new Bloomberg article notes that the CEOs of the Standard and Poor's 500 corporations make 204 times as much money as their own employees. The article highlights the most extreme disparity in the S&P 500, where former J.C. Penney CEO Ron Johnson received a total compensation package 1,795 times that of former fashion jewelry saleswoman Rebecca Gonzales in 2011.
Police in Alabama are searching for a gunman who shot and killed a young mother while she was holding her 10-day old son, authorities said.Sheri Williams, 24, was standing in the doorway of her Gate City, Ala., apartment just before 1 p.m. Monday afternoon when a bullet intended for a nearby man fatally struck her in the face, according to Birmingham Police Department spokesman Sgt. Johnny William...
The nation's top intelligence official has ordered a review of the Boston Marathon bombing case amid questions about whether the U.S. should have known one of the suspects posed a threat.Retired Gen. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, has asked the inspector general who oversees the intelligence community to take a broad look at various agencies' handling of information they rec...
The joint effort known as the “Oregon Organizing Project” has helped more than 3,000 Oregon workers win a voice on the job in the past several months. In the most recent campaign, several Oregon unions pitched in and worked together to help more than 300 Head Start workers at Mount Hood Community College who wanted to form a union to address serious workplace concerns.
George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, waived his right Tuesday to seek immunity under Florida’s “stand your ground” self-defense law before his June trial.His lawyers have said they may seek immunity later. Zimmerman, who has pleaded not guilty, is a former neighborhood watch volunteer of white and Hispanic descent who h...
The Georgia AFL-CIO asked the Georgia legislature to honor members of the Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 84 who jumped into action and helped out during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The bills, S.R. 346/ H.R. 526, were introduced to commend the workers, and Georgia Power took out a full-page ad in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution honoring their contribution to the recovery.
The sheriff in a Northern California county where an 8-year-old girl was stabbed to death has vowed to catch her killer.“We will not rest until we capture the responsible person,” Calaveras County Sheriff Gary Kuntz said at a televised news conference on Monday.Leila Fowler's parents, Barney Fowler and Krystal Walters, were scheduled to speak, but appeared too distraught to do so. The girl and her...
