From Passage of Minimum Wage to Senate Block of Employee Free Choice: AFL-CIO Blog Looks at 2007 (Part 2)
30th December 2007
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From a brand new Congress taking the reins on Capitol Hill in January to the AFL-CIO's first-ever global organizing conference in December, working families have seen some significant victories, unfortunate setbacks and a lot of unfinished business this year. We take a look back at 2007 in a series of posts. Today in Part 2, a quick glance at top items from April through June. Click here to read Part 1.
April
* It's good work and pays well if you can get it. In 2006, the average CEO of Standard and Poor's 500 company made $14.78 million. But as the 2007 AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch reported, some of that was what some might call "funny money"—backdated stock options, a scandal that exploded in 2006.