Yesterday, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger addressed a conference sponsored by the Institutional Investor Education Foundation and the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) on retrieving the excessive pay and bonuses corporate CEOs received as they helped drive the nation's economy down. "Across America people are feeling robbed at every turn by the financial industries and corporate CEOs who are more interested in their compensation than the health of their corporation, the well-being of their employees or customers," said Burger in her address.

In April, the SEIU Master Trust--a consortium of pension funds with approximately $1.3 billion in assets--sent letters to the Boards of Directors of 29 major companies demanding that the companies' boards overhaul their executive compensation structure.