By CCN: Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders is having a slight beef with the Disney entertainment company after 'Avengers: Endgame' earned approximately $1.2 billion in its opening weekend. In a recent message on Twitter, the 2020 presidential hopeful criticized the film and television conglomerate for paying its CEO Bob Iger a salary of $65.6 million, roughly “1,400 times as much as the average...
By CCN: Roy Disney's granddaughter Abigail Disney described Disney CEO Bob Iger's annual compensation package worth $65 million as "insane." On the surface, this is an admirable sentiment when taking into account that low-paid employees working at the so-called 'happiest place in the world' often struggle to survive earning $15 per hour. The support of the Disney co-founder's granddaughter would...
The movement against the 1% continues to grow in the United States, but on Wednesday we saw it come from an unlikely place, one of their own.
Abigail Disney (yes, that Disney), went on the record to absolutely slam CEO pay and the structure of taxation for those who have accumulated enormous wealth.