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    • Tue Mar 4th 14:13 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      American Axle Strike: Unions Continue to Kill U.S. Manufacturing
      My husband works there and makes around 17 an hour. We are VERY middle class with a home worth less than 80 grand and one car payment (one car's paid off). That's what we can afford with him and me BOTH working. We have two kids in the mix too. To ask him to take a pay cut of HALF would limit our ability to keep our home. Never mind EVER buying a new car to replace the 11 year old one we have now. We don't smoke, don't party, and don't buy 'name brand' clothing. We wear Kmart or Walmart. I have NEVER been to a starbucks (I hate coffee, but just the same - VERY LITTLE discretionary spending).
      He works hard every day (so much so that he has to ice his shoulders and take aleve daily!)
      His plant voted in a THIRD tier of wages last contract AND the highest tier took a PAY CUT last time. Dickie D made NINE MILLION last year and all management got HUGE bonuses. My husband still only makes 17 an hour; usually with a 50 hour week (around 2600 hrs/year).
      If you divide 9,000,000 by 2600 (hours), old Dickie boy makes roughly $3461.53 an hour. Now tell me WHO'S overpaid??????
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