Metro Detroit-area citizens rallied today with the community group Good Jobs Now Detroit to demand a meeting with DTE Chair and CEO Gerard Anderson. The southeast Michigan utility CEO runs a company that has posted almost $1 billion in profits, but had a income tax rate of negative 3% in 2010. Activists also protested the company's high salaries for its top executives and the company's continued shutoffs of light and heat of low-income Detroit residents.
"DTE is run by millionaires who aren't paying a dime in taxes," said
Kimland Terry, 54, of Detroit. "I can barely keep my lights and gas on
but all they care about is their bottom line. We are the 99 percent.
It's time for them to listen to us."
DTE's top four executives made more than $19 million in 2010, all while
shutting off power to more than 100,000 low income families, children
and seniors.
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News coverage of today's action from Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News.
To view coverage of all the corporate tax dodgers being protested across the country this week, visit http://seiu.me/janactions.
Sign up here to become a part of the movement to reign in the 1%.
News coverage of today's action from Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News.
To view coverage of all the corporate tax dodgers being protested across the country this week, visit http://seiu.me/janactions.
