Prez Obama says 'no more handouts'. US automakers get a deadline

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@Noga

Did anyone else see the CAW president on TV yesterday around 2? I personally work as well as my two parents at the Chrysler Etobicoe casting plant. What you dont realize is that we have already given up TONS to try and make this company viable. Our breaks were cut close to 30% as well as increasing machine speed. They even removed stupid things such as cable TV in break rooms that cost close to 250$ per year.(This is a parts production plant not assembly) Labour counts for 7% of a cars assembly price. Alot of the problem is the companys refusal to work with the union.

Noga

I realize this is an innapropriate question, but how much do you make? How much do your parents make?
Everytime I’ve seen the wages of auto workers publicized, they are MONSTROUSLY overpaid. There are line workers out there with zero education that are easily doubling my take home, if not tripling. Meanwhile I hold a Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace, and work in the Aerospace industry. You know how much we pay our workers? $10/hr. We’re not unionized. If they don’t like it, they can go elsewhere. This is why we’re profitable, because we’re not paying every Joe in the plant $30-40 hr to do nothing all day.