Who Agrees That The United Auto Workers Union Leadership Is Ignorant & Arrogant?
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They get WAY overpaid compared to workers who make high-quality Toyotas and Hondas — and, I might add, these are UNITED STATES Toyota and Honda workers — they pay 788,000+ retirees gold-plated health care insurance plans, and they pay 80%+ wages to employees who are “on the bench” (instead of NO pay like layoffs in others companies).
And the UAW won’t budge to put wages in line with the others by a late date in 2009 (insisting that they keep their totally unrealistic 2011 contract)??
I WOULD SAY “SEE YOU IN BANKRUPTCY COURT” TOO (just like the Senate did tonight)!!!
They come with tin-cup in hand — fine, let them start their own darn business(es) if they’re so smart.
And nobody had better bring up the bailout of Wall Street — another boondoggle and rape of the American taxpayer. If your neighbor’s kid needs a bailout (or jumps off a cliff), you don’t tell YOUR kid to jump off a cliff too.
ME!! i think that they shouldnt have gotten any money at all… even if they dont get any money, its not guarenteed to go bankrupt, and even if they go bankrupt: that simply means that someone else will buy them out and they will end up doing things better with more efficiency.
the sad thing is that jobs will be lost in the process… but i still see it (teaching the big 3 a lesson and making them leave empty handed) as something that has to be done to move forward.
Your average auto worker makes $70 an hour (do the math: 70 x 40 = 2,880 per wk, x 4.3 wks = $12,800 a month x 12 months = $144,000 per year) and they get great benefits thanks to the union. Now the big three can’t afford them, so they all need be allowed to fail, so they can come back with a new leaner meaner business model where they can actually design. build and sell good quality affordable cars to a much poor middle class.
Absolutely! They need to re-negotiate salaries and accept pay cuts or lose their jobs, instead of asking for handouts from the Gov.
Also if they made better quality cars like Toyota or Honda, they wouldn’t be in that situation.
ME, and I pray their days come to an end. Screw them all, and I hope they have problems getting new jobs, they don’t work half the time, and I hope they incur great hardships.
Merry Christmas.
I do.
I only read the first few lines of you question and knew how to respond, these folks that have worked for the BIG THREE for all these years have earned what they should get in retirement. Naturally a foreign company that is allowed to move in on US territory is going to have lower labor costs because they haven’t been here as long and have a much younger work force. Not to mention the incredible TAX incentives they get. The UAW has given up a great deal to make these companies competitive. You must be from the south where all the union busters are. Many domestic autoworkers took buyouts just to get the hell out and help the companies downsize.
I am not for any of these taxpayer funded bailouts by any means, if we are a free market society, then that what we should be, but these selective bailouts have got to stop. The banks are the sole reason for the mess we are in and guess what? They got everything they needed and are responding by not lending and raising interest rates.
Why doesn’t the god damned congress make some concessions. I see they are in line for a raise, they get the best of health care and an excellent pension. Think about it. And many of them are much to old to be governing. They make it so simple for the foreign companies to do business here and foreign countries make it hard for US businesses to do business in their countries. Hooray for the global economy concept. The US government needs to stop the self -proclaming as the greatest country in the world.
I am a Teamster, I work for the airlines and do not agree, no company should have the right to constantly make the laborer out to be the bad guy, thanks to bankruptcy courts I have taken three pay cuts and my pension has been cut in half plus my health care took a hit. Nobody gives a damn about CEO’S making millions along with actors , singers and athletes but let a guy bust his but for 40 hours a week and get a living wage, oh the horror. I would like to see people like you do a autoworkers job.
E=MC2 you better do some facts checking, the avg. GM UAW worker is paid $29.78 an hour, the company says with healthcare, and pension for all its workers and retirees cost them $69 an hour.
What’s 14 billion (Microsoft corporate tax welfare was 12 billion in 2007) compared to 300 and many more billion to come that was spent barely without question and little outrage when it saves two million or more jobs? They must, obviously make concessions too,now. Oops, did I say 300 billion+, sorry. Too big to fail can apply to people too. Nobody in that union “makes” 70 dollars an hour- there’s Fed/fica/state/union dues…etc. The average shmoe gets nickled and dime’d to death- if they’re lucky maybe 70K year. Remember these guys don’t own a business where they can receive cash and hide a lot from the IRS like their critics do. I get so tired of hearing how the self employed practically carved their homes out of a wilderness and act as though only they deserve anything. An economy is interdependent- break your neighbors back and you loose a customer.