Missouri 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.

Yesterday afternoon, more than four thousand workers, students, faith leaders and activists rallied at Kiener Plaza in Downtown St. Louis to show their disgust with state and federal efforts to roll back basic rights, gut the minimum wage and weaken the middle class so that the already wealthy can get even richer. For extensive coverage of the event, check out: 

• KSDK: Organized labor rally at Kiener Plaza
• Beacon: Thousands of union workers turn out to protest 'corporate greed' and attacks on bargaining rights
• Show Me Progress: Rally against corporate greed
• Occassional Planet: Solidarity rally draws big St. Louis crowd
  
• KMOX: Pro-Union Forces Rally Downtown
  

It isn't clear if the Post-Dispatch covered the rally at all.  Photos of the crowd and participants have been posted by Jobs With Justice, the AFL-CIO, Women's Voices Raised for Social Justice and others -- I've pulled together a few here. 

Missouri ProVote hosted their annual awards dinner last night to celebrate key leaders and organizations in Missouri's progressive community. They included:

• Outstanding Progressive Legislator: Rep. Jeanette Mott Oxford (D-St. Louis)
• Outstanding Community Organization: The Missouri Women’s
  Leadership Coalition
• Outstanding Labor Organization: The Missouri AFL-CIO
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Leila Medley of the Missouri NEA

Congratulations, and thank you for many years of service to Missouri's families!