Interesting read....

[TodFitch]

http://www.freep.com/article/20081205/COL14/812050400/?imw=Y

[randroid]

TodFitch,

Thanks for posting that. I find it at least a little satisfying to hear, especially from an unimpeachable source such as the Freep, that not all of our CEOs have put themselves before the Country. Now all we need to do is figure out how to get the oil companies to foot the bill for the bailout of the companies that hire the people to create the machines that use the oil company's product.

-Randy

[Tom Skinner]

This is something I bet 99.9 percent of Americans don't know.

Thanks for sharing this information I hope this gets out to the

average American. We are in reality Hard Working and Competetive.

Chrysler Employees have had to hump it ever since the "Board at Chrysler"

sold them down the river to the Germans back in the nineties, and then

milked the rest of Chrysler dry and dumped them.

The German Companies did that to our Commercial Construction

Companies back in the nineties also - JA Jones comes to mind, it fell to thier predatory Fat Cats sucking that Company dry and dumping it after they all retired. We have a lesson to learn here before someone sells out to GM

and lets them complete Chrysler's demise. Chrysler should buck up and hold on.

If Robert Nardelli is even a pinky on Lee Iacocca's right hand he will do the right thing and save Chrysler. Chrysler himself took no pay for four years during the depression, to aid in its solvency.

Myth No. 7: Their union workers are lazy and overpaid

Reality: Chrysler tied Toyota as the most productive automaker in North America this year, according to the Harbour Report on manufacturing, which measures the amount of work done per employee. Eight of the 10 most productive vehicle assembly plants in North America belong to Chrysler, Ford or GM.

The oft-cited $70-an-hour wage and benefit figure for UAW workers inaccurately adds benefits that millions of retirees get to the pay of current workers, but divides the total only by current employees. That's like assuming you get your parents' retirement and Social Security benefits in addition to your own income.

Hourly pay for assembly line workers tops out around $28; benefits add about $14. New hires at the Detroit Three get $14 an hour. There's no pension or health care when they retire, but benefits raise their total hourly compensation to $29 while they're working. UAW wages are now comparable with Toyota workers, according to a Free Press analysis.