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Originally Posted by longsuffering
Darn right! If they'd work for as little as the Chinese we wouldn't have this problem. 
It's funny that so many posters write as though they're experts on this issue yet can't grasp the fact that autoworkers are not getting paid $74 or $55 per hour. |
You do know that the actual hourly pay is irrelevant in this case, its what the company is paying out in total compensation.
So the union members need to make a choice about what part of that package they can live without. The pension? The salary, portions of their paid vacation, their dental plan for example.
But a total compensation plan of about $150,000 per year for a factory worker in a depressed economy in a dying industry is the first place that you have to look since there are thousands upon thousands of these positions.
I was watching the news this morning and they interviewed a lady that had just been laid off, her and her husband were line workers for GM. They were living in a very large very nicely furnished house as she worked on a shiny new laptop, and both her and her husband were driving new high end super powerfull pickup trucks.
And she said that the problem wasn't with the workers and they shouldn't have to give anymore. It just seemed to be such a golden goose killing moment.