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Should We Really Bail Out the Big Three Automakers with $73.20 Per Hour Labor?

Bolt Turner:

Is there a part of the 'bill of rights' that ensures health care to every individual? When did it become a 'right' to health care? Those of us who eat right, don't smoke, drink in moderation, etc., pay for those who do, in the form of higher health care costs. The reason the costs are so high is because there IS free health care in the USA. If you have no assets for the hospital to go after...it's a freebie! Of course, any fool knows there is no free lunch, especially for the middle class. If GM goes BK, not to worry. If our free market economy is allowed to function, there are already manufacturing firms ready to take on whatever GM leaves behind. Cars will still get made, the manufacturing plants will get bought....and those without a job will get hired.

Should We Really Bail Out the Big Three Automakers with $73.20 Per Hour Labor?

Hmmmm, wonder if the UAW invested the 50 Billion into Sub-prime? Are we being asked to bail out GM, or the Union?

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Should We Really Bail Out the Big Three Automakers with $73.20 Per Hour Labor?

Meanwhile, press reports indicate that workers who raise questions about relationships between UAW officers and the auto companies have received threats and been ostracized by coworkers.[27] The UAW once had a reputation for policing itself reasonably well: "Those gripes stayed in the family and the offenders got slapped hard by the international," according to Bob King, a former UAW official. But an apathetic response to the latest round of accusations has forced workers to take their suspicions to federal investigators. Billy Robinson, president of Local 2036 in Henderson Kentucky, was harsh in his assessment of where the union is going: "The UAW has become a company union. . . . They don't represent the members. The Big Three have bought off the union, paying representatives 70 hours a week to ignore their members."

Should We Really Bail Out the Big Three Automakers with $73.20 Per Hour Labor?

What is the salary of the UAW President?

What perks go along with the job? Any corruption there?

The 'union' way is a way to mediocre product. Talent OR production wise.