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Corporate Greed: 30 Years of Attacks on Working Families

Explore how big business agendas have eroded benefits, cut wages, and empowered the wealthy elite at the expense of the majority. Discover the impact of deregulation, tax cuts, and union decline on income inequality and government finances. Learn about the struggle against corporate influence in democracy and the fight for fair treatment of workers.

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Corporate Greed: 30 Years of Attacks on Working Families

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  1. The Union Message

  2. Working Families Under Assault for 30 Years For the last 30 years, Big Business has worked this agenda with every resource it has: Deregulation: trucking, airlines, telecom, financial services, health care, the environment, labor protections Global race to the bottom through NAFTA, GATT, Fast Track, FTAA . . . Privatize social benefits and social services Abolish negotiated benefits like pensions and health care that are critical to the standard of living of working people Cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy Break the power of unions 2

  3. The Corporate Assault On Workers Goal: Maximize corporate profits and CEO pay Strategy: Destroy unions Reduce workers’ wages and benefits 3

  4. CEO PAY OUTRAGEThe New American Aristocracy

  5. Nonunion Union 92% 15 days 73% 11.75 days 68% 16% Health Insurance Vacations Guaranteed Pension Source: U.S. Department of Labor; BLS; EPI; Employee Benefit Research Institute. As Unions Decline, Benefits Decline

  6. 28% 53% 12% 46% thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/03/147994/unions-income-inequality

  7. Revenues, by Source, 1970 to 2020 (Percentage of gross domestic product) WHO PAYS FOR OUR GOVERNMENT?The elite rich 1% pays less, the 99% pay more.Federal Revenue Sources from 1950 to 2008. 10% 40% 30% 10% Income over $1 million taxed at over 90% Income over $1 million taxed at less than 35 % Source: Congressional Budget Office.

  8. Top 10% own 80% of all US stock wealth Top 10% Own 80%

  9. Productive workers are taxed higher than gambling speculators

  10. 7.65% $50,000 0.82% $1,000,000 0.16% $5,000,000 The Social Security Tax Cap Burdens Workers Effective FICA Tax Rate Yearly Wages

  11. Year Before the Stock Market Crash Year Before the Stock Market Crash Growth of the Middle Class FDR’s Top Tax Rate Over 90% Unions are Growing New Deal & G.I. Bill Promotes Education & Housing Reagan Cuts Top Tax Rate to 28% Fires Striking Workers Permits Media Monopolies

  12. FAT CATS CREATED THE CRISIS LOOTED THE ECONOMY NOW WE HAVE TO SAVE IT?

  13. Clinton had a surplus So who caused the record deficits?Who benefits from Wars, Tax cuts & the Crash? Bush’s Wars Bush’s Tax Cuts Wall St. Crash

  14. TAX CUTS AND DEREGULATION THE ANSWER TO EVERY PROBLEM

  15. For the Elite Top 1% there is never enough! NYC 44% NYS 35% USA 24%

  16. In NYC the rich get nearly 1/2 of all the income but only pay 1/3 of the taxes. -11.1% +1.6% + 5.1% + 2.8% + 1.2% + 0.1% +0.2% 19

  17. "We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy. But we cannot have both." — Justice Louis D. Brandeis

  18. TAX CUTS ARE STARVING GOVERNMENT

  19. CORPORATIONS HAVE CORRUPTED OUR DEMOCRACY AND STOLE OUR GOVERNMENT

  20. CORPORATE MEDIA THE ECHO CHAMBER PUSHING DEREGULATION, TAX CUTS AND MAKING THE TOP 1% RICHER

  21. SCAPEGOATING PUBLIC WORKERS

  22. And they are out to destroy unions National Union Density, 1984= 19% of workforce 0% to 9% 10% to 20% 21% to 30% 31% + Source: U.S. Department of Labor AFL-CIO 30

  23. …and it’s working National Union Density, 2004 = 13% of workforce It’s already down to 12.1% in 2007 0% to 9% 10% to 20% 21% to 30% 31% + Source: U.S. Department of Labor AFL-CIO 31

  24. US SUPREME COURT SAYS CORPORATE MONEY IS SPEECH MORE MONEY… MORE SPEECH

  25. REPEATING A LIE NEVER MAKES IT THE TRUTH

  26. UNDO THE CORPORATE COUP OF THE 1% Government By And For The People… Living Breathing Human Beings - the 99%

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