haha, unions are the least of detroit's problems

[Edited on May 10, 2009 at 1:59 AM. Reason : http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/24/opinion/main4630103.shtml]

5/10/2009 1:42:24 AM

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"But the next time you hear somebody say the unions have to make serious salary and benefit concessions, keep in mind that they already have--enough to keep the companies competitive, if only they can survive this crisis."

No they haven't. Mexico's top pay is about $15/day. I know this from one of the VW plants I have been to down there.

Assembling a car is not as difficult at the guy writing this article makes it out to be.
I work for an automotive supplier and we don't pay $52,000-60,000 for an assembly line worker. It's ridiculous.

5/10/2009 9:30:56 AM

^^

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"Autoworkers Making $70 An Hour? Not Really"

the article tries to argue that the benefits they are set to receive shouldn't be considered their cost, and he doesn't even to mention that $28/hour is a retarded sum of money to pay a trained monkey on an assembly line. What they fail to mention is that the benefits these workers are set to receive will likely be at a much higher cost than $70/hour by the time they're done retiring and collecting on them.

5/10/2009 2:51:27 PM

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"One of the places I work is trying to unionize. It's government funded. There would be no benefit to doing this. How do I organize against it? They had a secret info session and sent an email friday saying that there would be a vote (location and time secret of course, unless you had signed up earlier). What to do?"

Forward the email to your boss.

5/10/2009 11:22:33 PM