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Congress Offers Big Three Automakers Help, Makes Demands in Exchange

My earlier comments were incorrect.

My information about wages from articles in the newsmedia was misleading as is a large part of the information the media publishes.

From what I've found out in the meanwhile is that the payscale for autoworkers is between $14 and $33 per hour. Of course that is from the media also but it sounds more reasonalble. Apparently the $73 per hour I have seen quoted in the newspapers includes benifits. That seems like a lot of benifits!

I'm not down on the union worker although I sure think things like the job bank where a laid off employee gets 95 percent of his wages while laid off, and some of the modern day retirement packages are a little much. Also, I need to point out that the union negotiated with the automakers for the terms that are in place and they agreed. What would you expect a worker to say to better wages or benifits for himself ... No?

If I'm down on anyone it's the newsmedia! Anything sensational will do for them whether it's misleading, wrong, or what. They slant the news and suck people like me into believing incorrect information.

Maybe the UAW workers will have to make some wage concessions for congress to aprove some money for the industry; I don't know. We'll find out.