Pour un salaire maximum

Merveille de la Toile : se rendre compte que notre combat pour le salaire maximum peut être repris et soutenu par des citoyens du "cœur de l'empire", des Étasuniens ! Il s'agit en l'occurrence d'un journal électronique intitulé "Too Much" dirigé par Sam Pizzigati, membre de l'Institute for Policy Studies, un think tank de la gauche américaine.

Voici l'extrait de "Too Much" du 19 octobre dernier :

"The new French legislation, if enacted, would cap executive pay, in companies subsidized by tax dollars, at 25 times the pay of a company’s lowest-paid worker.

At all other firms, boards of directors would set the executive-worker multiple that determines the executive pay ceiling, after a process that includes worker input. Shareholders would have the final say on what that multiple would be.

Support in France for an income cap — a “maximum wage” — has been building since last spring when the French weekly, Marianne, launched a petition campaign for a “salaire maximum.” How far politically can this campaign now go?

One appraisal came last week from Jean-Philippe Huelin, the editor of the French maximum wage campaign’s online presence.

“With a little perseverance — and luck,” says Huelin, the French maximum wage drive just might become a “flagship” issue in the next French presidential election."