AFL-CIO

The AFL-CIO unveiled a new "Executive Paywatch" website today detailing executive salaries in Missouri and other states. In contains some pretty fascinating -- and sickening -- details on how CEOs at S&P 500 companies are compensated.  Check it out here.

The database and website part of a larger campaign to strengthen Wall Street reform, close corporate tax loopholes and ensure that poor and middle class Americans are no longer required to pay for the greed of corporate CEOs. You can read the AFL-CIO's full press release can be read below the jump.

A broad coalition of progressive organizations staged rallies around the country yesterday to protest the manifestly unfair tax system that allows some corporations to escape their tax responsibilities entirely.  Events similar to ones in Missouri took place all over the country targeting “The Deadbeat Dozen”—GE, Bank of America, Google, BP, Amazon, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Boeing, ExxonMobil, FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Chase—wealthy corporations that are doing everything in their power to avoid paying taxes in America.

KTVI had a good story on the St. Louis action last night.

The AFL-CIO has unveiled their latest direct mail piece targeting Roy Blunt in the US Senate race, called "Roy Blunt Failed Missouri Workers."  Sent to union households, it focuses on three points: Blunt's opposition to "legislation that would create good-paying jobs," his opposition to  extending unemployment benefits for struggling families, and his decision to side with Wall Street while neglecting the needs of Main Street. 

The piece is expected to hit mail boxes this week.

Full mailer below the break.

The AFL-CIO in Missouri has announced their second wave of mail pieces attacking Roy Blunt in the Senate race today, which "points out  several of the anti-worker stances Blunt has recently taken."  The piece focuses on Blunt's decision to support the $700B TARP bailout, but oppose extending unemployment insurance benefits for struggling workers and skip a vote to pay for thousands of state teacher and public safety jobs this year. 

Full piece below the break.

The Hotline reports today that Missouri will be one of six targeted Senate races for "an ambitious grassroots campaign" from the AFL-CIO.  All told, the AFL-CIO reportedly dropped 2 million mail pieces this weekend.

Here's a copy of one mailer, as posted by Politico:

The Missouri AFL-CIO has announced that it will be running the following tv ad in the St. Louis area this weekend "celebrating the contributions of America's workers and the unions of the AFL-CIO. "