The people work their butts off and get a good paycheck.  Overtime is $45 bucks an hour big deal, CEO's are getting $100,000 and hour.

If all the automakers problems were pay then foreign automakers with factories in America would be in the same boat, yet they aren't.  Most non union auto makers pay the same.  If Detroit unions win a new contract the non union shops pay the same.

My son-in-law works at a Honda plant and makes the same rate as a union shop.

The Big 3's problem are much higher.  Too many layers to make a decision.  That's why IBM got wiped out in PC's, they couldn't make a decision.  Big 3 execs sit in their cushy offices, rake in the dough and expect us to buy american.

What american car (besides pickup trucks and the Japanese are catching up slowly in that arena) is better than a foreign car, costing the same?  Not many.  If all the hard working people making the cars are paid the same what's the difference?

by northernlightsdemocrat on 12/23/2008 10:53:37 AM EST