Wall Street Tricks: How Executives Raise their Compensation

Wall Street greed is taking more and more of the dollars generated by workers' productivity and using them not to invest in better equipment or operations, not to pass along the gains to workers, but to buy more stock because that raises the stock price and the CEO's salary.

Columnist Harold Meyerson looks at this issue and what our government can do, right now, to slow this wave of corporate excess. 

Be sure to check out the Winter 2015 issue of the CWA News, which looks at how "so much wealth ends up in the pockets of CEOs and Wall Street firms" and the reforms CWA is pushing to fight back.