
More than a dozen major companies that blamed price increases on rising labor costs gave their top executives big raises — and some of them even slashed workers' pay, according to a new report.
Corporations like Amazon, Apple, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Verizon and Starbucks cited growing labor costs when they hiked prices on consumers while behind the scenes their CEO-to-worker pay gap grew larger, according to an analysis from the left-leaning watchdog group Accountable.US.