"With no financial net, no workplace rules, no safety regulations, no financial regulation, and most importantly in that era, a shift from a farm-based to an industrial-based economy, the result was what we now call the Gilded Age — the age of the Robber Barons."
An analysis of CEO pay at 158 of Standard & Poor’s 500 index companies revealed that median CEO pay — that salary at which half of CEOs earned more and half earned less — rose 27 percent from 2009 to 2010 to $9 million, USA Today reported.
"[The Caledonian Record] applauds the VSEA for fighting the good fight. We often fight (and win) but it typically costs us thousands in legal fees. We hope the VSEA’s victory becomes a victory for all of us."
Miracles really do happen!
"Union workers from Vermont traveled to Concord to support their neighbors in the Granite State. Susan Martin, a member of the VSEA, came all the way from Montpelier with a group of about six.
“We feel that this union is a part of our community and part of our union, too. These are our brothers and sisters. We are here for solidarity,” Martin said. She said public employees in all states must make a collective effort to counteract legislation that takes away rights from unions.
“We need to get in the faces of our legislators and let them know this is not right what they’re trying to do to us,” she said.