Geoghegan

Geoghegan is unabashedly pro-union, even though he's seen the worst of what unions can become.

Boing Boing 2009

It's official: after working for 37 years at HSBC, Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan is leaving.

HSBC Replaces An Irreplaceable CEO Parmy Olson 2010

Geoghegan is a lifelong, old-time labor lawyer whose practice has encompassed defending unions from management to defending workers from unions -- representing clients whose corrupt Work Agents have had them beaten up, smeared and excluded; representing workers who've been robbed of their pensions, unfairly dismissed, even arrested, under the most shameful, sleazy circumstances.

Boing Boing 2009

HSBC is expected to announce profits of around 10 billion pounds sterling (15.15 billion US dollars) Monday, results which would entitle Geoghegan to a bonus of 4 million pounds sterling.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

Not only would Obama (or anyone else) walk into a buzzsaw by attempting to cut Social Security benefits, but Tom Geoghegan is running for Rahm Emanuel’s seat in Congress on a platform of substantially increasing Social Security, so that it constitutes a real pension, not a partial one, especially for people whose retirements have been devastated by the economic catastrophe.

Matthew Yglesias » Ben Smith Says the Left Won’t Object to Entitlement Cuts 2009

Mr. Geoghegan is working, and being paid, until March 31.

Who Would Sit at Patience Wheatcroft 2010

Mr. Geoghegan is also set to collect a windfall from the 925,000 shares he owns, worth about £ 6.2 million, and could receive a payday from a long-term incentive share program launched in 2008 that HSBC said could be as high as £ 7.2 million but was more likely to total about £ 2 million.

HSBC Chief's Exit Pay Could Total $32 Million Sara Schaefer Mu 2010

Rose calls Geoghegan "a truly remarkable progressive running with a life-long record of writings and actual deeds that put him head and shoulders above all the rest."

Tom Geoghegan: Big endorsement for Geoghegan 2009

Thomas Frank of the Wall Street Journal called Geoghegan "a true reformer."

GEOGHEGAN: RHYMES WITH REAGAN, SOUNDS LIKE WELLSTONE 2009

And, Kathy Pollit of The Nation called Geoghegan, "the next Paul Wellstone."

GEOGHEGAN: RHYMES WITH REAGAN, SOUNDS LIKE WELLSTONE 2009