Sky-high CEO pay is in focus as workers everywhere are demanding higher wages
As autoworkers' real wages fall, top executives at the Big Three carmakers continue to earn tens of millions of dollars each year — hundreds of times more than the median employee.
Workers of all stripes have chafed at the stratospheric pay of their CEO bosses for years, even decades.
This year, unions are calling out the pay disparity between workers and CEOs in negotiation after negotiation with management, as they demand more.
It's at the core of the United Auto Workers' messaging, as the union pushes for substantial pay raises for its roughly 150,000 members, who work at the Big Three automakers: Ford, General Motors and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler).
And after their contract expires this
