The same Wall Street banks that are being bailed out by taxpayers gave their executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses and benefits in 2007, the Associated Press reported this week.
CWA members in southern California know first hand that Rep. Hilda Solis, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for U.S. secretary of labor, is a long-standing champion of workers' organizing and bargaining rights.
The same Wall Street banks that are being bailed out by taxpayers gave their executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses and benefits in 2007, the Associated Press reported this week.
After decades of a steady decline in worker bargaining rights, CWA leaders and others say the 2008 elections have finally opened a window of opportunity to restore Americans' organizing and bargaining rights and rebuild the country's tumbling economy.
