# Ford|GM Merger **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [November 19, 2008, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-gm-merger/200740 "2008-11-19T10:19:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 85
**Author:** ![bics56](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@bics56](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bics56)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-gm-merger/200740/85 "2008-11-25T13:45:46Z")
> [@Ricky Williams to return?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ricky-williams-to-return/38814/13): > > These people work on assembly lines and what not, they need the health coverage, I will not need it as much sitting behind a computer punching numbers might give me bad eye sight and carpel tunnel not a bad back and aching legs/arms, maybe have something fall on me etc etc. They deserve to get good benefits. Usually, for most big companies, the fringe benefits are about ~30% of their pay, so no I am not surprised, because that’s how this works, I see it every single day, I write up the budgets. > > The number seems way too high, so I thought they lumped in the wages of CEO’s, maybe it doesn’t. I am still not sure about that, but did you read the actual statement Again…this is not good. If benefits are costing that much then they should be required to pay a partion like the rest of America. The contracts are way to in favor of the employee to a point where it hurts the company…I don’t know what your thing is with thinking people who do mindless work deserve to make $80-100K/year and have a benefit/reitrement package the is better than 99% of people in America. In today’s age full benefits, pension are a thing of the past…costs are way to high to expect a company to pay for this. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-gm-merger/200740)._