Then follow directions and write your answers on a piece of notebook paper with your name and date at the top. Remember it's 2015.
Note: All CEO hourly pay is based on a full year (52 week) 40 hours a week workweek. So that's working everyday except weekends for 8 hours a day.
1.
a. What does the AFL-CIO stand for and what is it's purpose?
b. The average worker makes how much per hour?
2. Click on one of the CEO's and write their name, their total salary and the name and amounts of each of their compensation.
For Example. R.W. Tillerson (Exxon Mobile) has a salary of $2,717,000. He gets a bonus worth $3,670,000, stock awards of $21,254,625 and other compensation at $496,704.
3. After doing number 2 scroll down one page and 2013 CEO To Worker Pay will come up. What is it? What is CEO: Minimum Wage Worker ratio?
4. What is the average salary of production and nonsupervisory workers?
5. What is the average salary for a full time worker on minimum wage?
6. One argument against raising wages is that the companies can’t afford it. What does the AFL-CIO say happened over 5 years?
7. Scroll again. How many hours would it take for a full-time min wage employee have to work to make what Michael Duke of Walmart makes in 1 hour?
8. What percentage of workers are working at min wage are 25 or older?
9. These questions are regarding Tiffany who works at Wal-Mart
a. How long has she been working as a customer service manager?
b. How many children does she have? Is she married?
c. How much did she earn last year as a full-time employee?
d. Because of this amount what does Tiffany say she receives?
e. What does she say about Wal-Mart?
f. Why Was Colby Harris fired?
Demographics of Minimum Wage Workers
10. Looking at the graph - which 2 groups are represented the most?
11. Do you think education has an effect on how much people make? Yes or no?
12. Now click on the education tab - are any of these surprising to you? Why? or Why Not?
13. Now click on region - which region is the most represented?
14. Now look to the right - Are CEO’s mostly men or women?
15. What is the racial breakdown of CEOs?
16. Do you believe that Asians, Blacks, and Latinos are less capable at running a company?
17. Why do you think that whites far outnumber other races at the top of companies?
18. Now scroll twice - to the Darden Worker: Sissy
a. How old is the restaurant worker?
b. Darden restaurants own what restaurants?
c. When did Darden worker start in the restaurant world?
d. How much did they earn and was it enough to live on?
e. So what did Darden worker do about it?
f. What was the problem?
g. How many years after 1975 did he land the “best job in the industry” and what was it?
h. What did the job promise?
i. What was his wage?
j. Did he have money for profit sharing or retirement?
k. What does he find ironic?
Now scroll to the real value of minimum wage chart and scroll over the chart to see how min wage did against inflation over the years.
19. In 1970 - what would Minimum wage be if it kept pace with the 1%?
20. In 1970 - what would minimum wage be if it kept pace with average wages?
21. In 1970 - what is the actual value of minimum wage?
Do the same thing that you did in 19-21 for the years 1986, 2001, and 2013.
22. What are some issues with raising the minimum wage that you can think of? What would happen if it was raised to $10.10 like this site suggests?
23. These questions relate to Tobacco Worker Fernando.
a. When did he come to the US?
b. Is Fernando a citizen?
c. Why did he come to the U.S.?
d. How many children does he have?
e. What does he do? Dangers? -
f. How much does he make?
g. What is Green Tobacco Sickness?
h. If he doesn’t go to work does he still get paid?
i. What happened to his arm and hand and how many days off did he get?
Scroll to next and click on View all Ceo by state then click S&P 500 - Then click on North Carolina.
24.What’s the average worker pay in NC?
25. What’s the average CEO Pay?
Then click on view the state’s CEO Pay in the NC tab.
26. Find the CEO Of Bank of America located in CHarlotte. What is his name? How much does he make?
Then Scroll to T-Mobile worker - Ellen
27. These questions relate to Ellen the T-Mobile Worker
a. What does she do for T-Mobile?
b. How long has she worked for them and how much does she make?
c. Does she have children? is she married?
d. Does she get government assistance? what is it?
e. How many seconds does she have to solve a problem? If she doesn’t what happens?
f. What does she say about what can happen to pregnant women at work?
g. Is there a Union for T-Mobile Workers?
28. These questions refer to Kevin the Kellogg's Worker
a. How long has he worked for Kellogg Co.?
b. How much and what cereal/s does he help produce a year?
c. What did Kelloggs do 6 months ago that affected Kevin?
d. What is a “28-and-two schedule”?
e. It costs Kelloggs 37 cents to do what?
f. On average how much do they sell a box of cereal for?
g. How much of a raise did the CEO of Kelloggs make?
29. According to this website things don't appear equal. Do you think this is a clear picture of the situation? What information do you think is missing? What can be done to make the playing field more equal? Is it reasonable to assume that we can work toward better financial equality?
