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On the recordJuly 21, 2021
Without the ability for unions to argue for a bigger share of that money that ends up in their pockets, and without other effective checks on the explosion of CEO pay, that imbalance just gets worse and worse.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy discusses the need for unions to address CEO pay inequality.

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