If Mondelez executives are so inept that they can't find an honest way to fill a $46 million hole, here's a suggestion: They could start by docking executive pay. The three top honchos -- whose compensation last year totaled $37 million -- can damn sure afford it. CEO Irene Rosenfeld alone took a $20 million paycheck in 2015, bringing her eight-year total to almost $200 million.
I'd say her gluttony is hoggish, but that would be unfair to swine, which have far better manners and more delicate appetites.
This is OUR fight
In a March protest outside Nabisco, a bakery worker held a hand-lettered poster aloft, proclaiming: "Crime Scene." She's right, but it's not just true of her Chicago workplace -- the entire United States should be enclosed in yellow tape.
Corporate America is now openly flouting our laws, violating our ethics, and rampaging over our society's unifying sense of common decency ... because they can. Almost no one is telling them "no" -- not Congress, the White House, Republicans, Democrats, the courts, the clergy (with the exemplary exception of Pope Francis), the police, the educational system, or others with power (and responsibility) to stand up to thugs.
We tell children to be good, to follow the Golden Rule. We teach that proper social behavior is essential, and that wrongdoing will always be punished. But every day they see that America's biggest, richest, most powerful, and most influential institutions -- giant corporations -- are free to be as bad as they want to be. Corporations bully their way over anyone, anything, and any rule, creating the vast inequality that presently disgraces America. Yet, perversely, rather than being punished by our society's various authorities, Corporados Greedyados such as Gregory Hayes of United Technologies and Irene Rosenfeld of Mondelez continue to be obsequiously deferred to and even celebrated as semi-divine social benefactors.
The carnage on working-class Americans won't stop until we actually start punishing these corporate malefactors. And that won't start until We the People overthrow today's clueless, elitist political establishment. The good news is that the current populist uprising -- having spread from Occupy Wall Street in 2011 through Fight for 15, Black Lives Matter, Bernie 2016, and soon to What's Next -- is the way to get that job done. Let's keep at it.
Do something!
Here are some ways to help unions battle runaway Corporados Greedyados:
Support companies that make their products in the USA. To learn more, check out the Made in America Movement.
To learn more about the Nabisco fight and to sign a petition in support of the Nabisco workers, visit here.
By the way, you can still buy American-made Nabisco products. To learn what to look for when buying groceries, check out the Check the Label campaign here or here.
And for more information on rebuilding a strong manufacturing economy in the USA, visit this site.
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