Colleen

$10 an Hour Pay Gap = Billions of Extra Dollars a Year

Why not bring their wages back to reality. $55 is ourageous. Sure they face disabiling conditions, give them disability insurance. Let them choose the level and let them pay half the cost. My husband faces disabiling conditions ranging from deafness from loud machinery, limb removal, or death. He pays for his disability insurance and doesn't even make $15.00/hr. People working the auto industry aren't privledged. You make your pay by how long you've been with a company, but $55 is crazy. $20/$25/ hr is good. What would that company do with an extra $30/hr for each of their 70,000 employees? If they all work an 8 hour day, in one day that's a savings of $16,800,000. Almost 17million dollars!!!!

Bring them back to reality. As for the poster who posted about grandpa and dad... all jobs aren't without their hazards. The auto industry isn't an exception. If they wanted a safe "cushy" job they should have gone into something in the office... otherwise, they like millions of others everyday knew the risks. And whining about corporate??? Is there an employee who doesn't? Their stress is no different to everyone elses. What is different is they are paid more than double what others are paid and still whine. GET OVER IT!! If you don't like the job find a different on. Oh wait.... they can't their too consumed by their own greed to try life in the real world.

Of course when the companies fold... then you may find a job like the rest of us at some plant working for $10/hr... or worse.... federal min wage!!!