Tim Cook CEO, Apple 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 October 23, 2014 Dear Mr. Cook, “Designed by Apple in California” has a nicer ring to it than “Assembled by workers paid about a dollar per hour, working 11hour shifts, and sleeping eight to a room in the Jabil Circuit corporate dormitories in Wuxi, China.” […]
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“Throw Them Some Pennies” – Letter to C. Douglas McMillon
C. Douglas McMillon CEO, Walmart 702 SW 8th St Bentonville, AR 72716 October 16, 2014 Dear Mr. McMillon, After this week’s announcement that Walmart will no longer pay a couple thousand of its workers the exact minimum wage, perhaps we should retire Marie Antoinette’s idiom “Let them eat cake!” and replace it with C. Douglas […]
Letter to Walmart Board Member Marissa Mayer regarding Walmart’s Poverty Wage Regime
Marissa Mayer CEO, Yahoo! 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 October 2, 2014 Dear Marissa Mayer, As Google’s first female engineer, one of the first 25 female CEOs of a Fortune 500 company, and one of Fortune magazine’s most powerful women, it is said that you have become an inspiration for girls and women around […]
Letter to John Boehner on Congressional Pay and the Minimum Wage
The Honorable John Boehner Speaker of the House H232, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 September 22, 2014 Dear Speaker Boehner, While millions of hardworking Americans are working more and more for less and less, you and your House of Representatives seem to have no problem working less and less for more and more. If a […]
Minimum Wage Letter from Ralph Nader to President Obama
President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. September 4, 2014 Dear President Obama, After years of advocacy by citizen and labor groups, your party has finally made raising the minimum wage for tens of millions of American workers an election issue for the coming midterms. The question remains, though: will […]
Letter from Ralph Nader to John Boehner on Conservative Support for Minimum Wage
The Honorable John Boehner Speaker of the House H232, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 July 4, 2014 Dear Speaker Boehner, In recognition of our 238th Independence Day, I want to highlight over 20 conservatives, Republicans, capitalists, and corporations who have declared Independence from the corporate spin machine on poverty wages by endorsing a longawaited and […]