AFL-CIO says media and entertainment company CEOs made an average of $35 million last year.
As striking Hollywood writers and actors ask for higher wages and assurances around the use of artificial intelligence, one of their leaders on Thursday joined the AFL-CIO in unveiling the union alliance’s annual report on executive pay.
SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said during a virtual news conference highlighting Paywatch, this year’s report and website from the AFL-CIO, that the issue of excessive compensation among media and entertainment executives “has really come to the forefront especially when you have CEOs who are telling us it’s ‘unrealistic’ to demand things like minimum-wage increases that account for inflation when you could see… they’re not worried about the...
From our archives : Why do bosses like the ‘Pity City’ CEO seem so out of touch? The growing CEO-to-worker pay gap may offer a clue. Hollywood writers and actors have mentioned their concerns about the effects of AI on their work, and the AFL-CIO stressed Thursday that that concern cuts across most industries.
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