I'm seeing a lot here about General Motors CEO Mary Barra after her disastrous CNN interview.
Barra raked in $29 million last year as GM CEO.
But I want to lift up a few more things about Barra, and how she represents the billionaire class more than people might even realize 🧵
In addition to being GM’s CEO, Barra also chairs the Business Roundtable.
The Business Roundtable is the lobbying group of top corporate CEOs.
Its board includes CEOs from Walmart, Apple, Ely Lilly, Kaiser Permanente and more.
And GM’s Barra *CHAIRS* the Business Roundtable.
Barra has also been a board director of Disney since 2017.
She is *very* close with Disney CEO Bob Iger. She sits on the board committee that oversees Iger’s enormous CEO pay.
She wrote a fawning tribute for Iger at Time magazine earlier this year.
The Barra-Iger nexus shows that striking auto workers and striking writers and actors are up against the same power bloc.
Iger/Disney has been an arch-nemesis of actors and writers 👇
(Meanwhile, Barra helped award Iger $130 million from Disney between 2019 and 2022)
If that’s not enough, Barra was also a board director of weapons’ giant General Dynamics from 2011 to 2017. So she’s part of the military-industrial complex, too.
So when UAW auto workers say they’re taking on the billionaire class, it's true in multiple ways. And Barra's ties just scratch the surface of the ways that the Big Three execs and directors are interlocked with the wider corporate elite ⤵️ truthout.org/articles/union…
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