The former president of the CSN Louis Roy attacked the CEOs on Tuesday on the airwaves of ICI Première, of Radio-Canada, in reaction to a study which shows that the best paid leaders earn 243 times the average salary in the world. Canada.
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The trade unionist said that we “should probably put these people in prison” for “theft”, “human exploitation”, “incitement to violence” and “embezzlement”, during the program Noon info. “It has been proven […] that the job of the CEO has very, very little bearing on a company’s share value,” he added.
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Louis Roy. Former president of the CSN
The one who resigned in 2012 following confidential events added that with the development of artificial intelligence, CEOs will be the first to lose their jobs. “Because it’s so ridiculous the work that these people do, for the production of a company. »
Mr. Roy was talking about the CEOs of large companies on the stock market, and not those of SMEs, he said.
A caricature, says CFIB
“We can’t get anywhere with caricatural remarks like this,” says François Vincent, v.-p. Quebec of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).
“Entrepreneurs take enormous risks and there is nothing wrong with wanting to grow your business,” he says, adding that 99% of businesses in Quebec are SMEs.
It should be noted that the Fondaction CSN, created at the initiative of the CSN, holds, among other things, investments in most of the major Canadian banks.