Take Action Against Executive Excess!

During his five years at the helm of Hewlett-Packard, CEO Mark Hurd followed a slash-and-burn, merge-and-purge business model, which led to 6,400 pink slips during our current crisis. On August 6, 2010, Hurd got the axe himself for falsifying financial reports to conceal a personal relationship with a female contractor. Hurd received $24.2 million for all of this.

Hurd is among a group of CEOs who were rewarded for firing workers to maximize their corporate profits during our current unemployment crisis.

CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most workers since the onset of the economic crisis took home 42 percent more pay in 2009 than their peers at S&P 500 firm.

Help put these CEOs to shame. Write a post on your Facebook wall, send a tweet to your followers, and tell your friends that you won't stand for injustice. Together we can stop executive excess.

HP CEO Mark Hurd resigned over a sex scandal. But what you don't know is he also got paid $24.2M for 6,400 layoffs. Don't let execs like him get away with it. Read the new IPS report here http://bit.ly/CEOpay10 and take action here: http://bit.ly/CEOAction

@HP_PC CEO Mark Hurd resigned over a sex scandal. But what you don't know is he also got paid $24.2M for 6,400 layoffs. #ceopay

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