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Journalist asks GM CEO Mary Barra about $29 million paycheck after UAW strike — On average, the Detroit Three's CEOs are making 40 percent more today than they did four years ago::On average, the Detroit Three's CEOs are making 40 percent more today than they did four years ago

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"My pay is based on compensation based on how the company performs"

#WHICH IS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE WORKERS PRODUCTIVITY YOU HORSES ASS!!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"So if the company has performed so well, surely there's plenty of capital available for increasing worker compensation!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

But when we pay the workers more the stock price doesn’t go up! Won’t anyone think of the stock price!

/s just in case anyone wasn’t sure.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"my pay is based ~~on how the company performs~~on how much value we can extract from our own employees."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You and the person that you replied to are both wrong. Her pay is based not on company performance, it is based on how much she can game the stock market by spending capital on stock buybacks to inflate the price and get compensation via her stock options.

Rules were put in place to tax CEO incomes and suddenly CEOs didn't get paid in taxable income anymore, instead they get paid in stock options.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah stock buybacks definitely need to be made illegal again.