Do you know who’s not one of the CEOs Obama admires?
Roger Smith, the CEO of American Income Life Insurance Company, that’s who.
Then again, insurance CEOs aren’t usually on anyone’s top-ten lists these days, that is, except for unions’.
Every time the unions need a CEO to embarrass other CEOs, they trot out Roger Smith.
- Need someone to shill for the Employee Free Choice Act? There’s a CEO for that.
- Need someone to shill for health care reform? There’s a CEO for that.
- Need someone to shill for just about any union-backed cause because he insures more than 9 million union members (and stands to gain many more after they are forced into the union and have to buy insurance from him)? There’s a CEO for that, too.
- Need someone who touts their business as being “All-Union, Wall-to-Wall,” but then hires independent contractors, who report working 80 hour work weeks without so much as a health insurance “allowance”
So I guess it is no surprise that the unions’ favorite CEO didn’t make President Obama’s cut.
Do you know who did make Obama’s list of most admired CEOs? It’s a different Smith, FedEx’s Fred Smith, who has been battling UPS and the Teamster’s attempts to unionize his company by bringing it under the auspices of the National Labor Relations Act.
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