[Newspoetry] UFE releases Executive Excess 2000

Joe Futrelle futrelle at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Sun Sep 3 14:51:40 CDT 2000


In the interest of fairness, I should point out that my pay as
Newspoetry CEO has gone up 535% just in the last two minutes, whereas
the average pay for newspoems has gone up just 32% in the same
period.  We all still make $0/hr.

On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 08:40:15PM -0500, Mike Lehman wrote:
> It should be noted that Newspoetry covered this story in much better
> fashion than the N-G.
> 
> Here, it's a frontpage headline. At the News-Gazette, it's a headline,
> alright, buried in section C, page 12, which happens to be the Business
> & Agriculture section. So I take it to mean that the N-G feels that this
> is info the bosses should know, but hope that those poor rubes that can
> barely read headlines (and many others without the excuse of a reading
> disability) will never find out they really got screwed during the 90's.
> 
> Happy Labor Day from the N-G!
> 
> Comrade Mike
> PS Just for the record, OUR CEO was the first member of the staff to
> actually break the story. Good job, Joe!
> 
> Joe Futrelle wrote:
> > 
> > United for a Fair Economy has released its annual report on the
> > widening gap between CEO and worker salaries.
> > 
> > http://www.ufenet.org/press/exec_excess_2000_pr.html
> 
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