{"id":192189,"date":"2009-04-29T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/29\/bank-of-america-ceo-ken-lewis-no-longer-chairman-of-the-board\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T04:12:00","slug":"bank-of-america-ceo-ken-lewis-no-longer-chairman-of-the-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/29\/bank-of-america-ceo-ken-lewis-no-longer-chairman-of-the-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis No Longer Chairman of the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a8Zmbuv21mH0&amp;refer=home\">close vote<\/a>, but splitting the CEO and Chairman of the Board positions passed, 50.3%-49.7%, and the new Chairman is Walter Massey.<\/p>\n<p>I do not think that this makes much of a difference in day to day operations, but the fact that shareholders went against Lewis and the board on this is significant.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a big win for AFSME, who campaigned for this, because of Lewis&#8217; aggressive campaign against labor unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a close vote, but splitting the CEO and Chairman of the Board positions passed, 50.3%-49.7%, and the new Chairman is Walter Massey. I do not think that this makes much of a difference in day to day operations, but the fact that shareholders went against Lewis and the board on this is significant. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,1004,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-finance","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}