Seeing the Light?
I think this could be a very powerful example and way forward. For too long we (American Companies in particular) have been very generous to management and look at labor as disposable. As we are (re)learning right now - if the consumer cannot afford to buy the products, those executives will have no profits to gorge on. Wal-Mart Hourly Workers to Get $2 Billion in Bonuses (Update4) - Bloomberg.com : "The bonuses reflect Wal-Mart’s “sensitivity to the growing public pressure to share some of its billions in profit with the workers who earned it,” David Nassar, executive vice president of Wal-Mart Watch, a consumer advocacy group, said today in an e-mailed statement."