Quote Originally Posted by lvpets2002 View Post
The only soap box I have to get on is == In all of this wanting bailouts I have not once heard anything of lets cut some of the pay back.. Come on I heard some of the workers get anywhere from $47.00 to $76.00 An Hour.. Come on dont you think thats a bit much & could use some trimming there??
When I lived in the mid-west in the late 80's, the auto manufacturers were THE place to work. This was because membership in the UAW union pretty much guaranteed you a job for life, no matter what one's skills or motivation were. And the wages were a LOT higher than other jobs in the area, three or four times the amount. It was certainly an artificially inflated and maintained work force.

I remember in one of my management classes in college watching some footage from hidden cameras placed on the assembly lines of the big three American car manufacturers. A large percentage of the workers were talking with each other, reading a magazine, sleeping, eating, etc. while the parts that they were supposed to be working on rolled by them untouched. It was SCARY, and made me vow to never buy an American car again. Then we were told the wages those people were making per hour, and it was doubly shocking.

I'm not saying this is the way it is or isn't today, I don't know.