# Would you like to SEE how UNIONS affect overhead costs?

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**Created:** [September 27, 2007, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/would-you-like-to-see-how-unions-affect-overhead-costs/36042 "2007-09-27T09:12:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/would-you-like-to-see-how-unions-affect-overhead-costs/36042/30 "2007-09-27T18:17:19Z")

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[quote=“JayS,post:29,topic:36042"”]

God you’re ignorant. Cry about executive salaries? They make up what, maybe .01% of GM’s workforce?

GM’s health care costs:

Source: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/20/AR2005102002078.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/20/AR2005102002078.html)

So they spent 200 TIMES more on health care alone than they did on their CEO’s salary.

The unions are costing the american auto industry 1.5 to 2 BILLION to pay people to do nothing. No, I’m not talking about the guy with the easy job who we joke about doing nothing, I mean someone who actually is paid to sit there and do absolutely nothing. It’s called “the jobs bank”:  
[http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/archive/06may/auto2\_jobsbank.htm](http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/archive/06may/auto2_jobsbank.htm)

I’m having trouble finding a rough number of how much union job salaries add up to at GM, but I’m willing to bet it’s about 10000 times more than upper management are making for the simple reason there are so many more union employees.

EDIT:  
Nevermind, I did all this research once before, here:  
[http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showpost.php?p=412638&postcount=28](http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showpost.php?p=412638&postcount=28)

I believe the word is pwned.

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Bravo sir.

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