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Originally Posted by rich-allen
Look, it's ridiculous when GM employees purchase more than $17M in Viagra from the health benefit package ($17m was for 2007 only). The biggest purchaser of Viagra in the US !!
My wife has a friend that got laid off from GM two years ago. Because of an agreement with the UAW and GM, she gets 95% of her salary until she is able to find a job that pays as much as she made with GM.
The kicker; to qualify for the 95% salary supplement she gets from GM, all she has to do is show up at GM plant each day and sit with 300 - 400 other employees for 8 hours a day. Please explain how that makes sense?
The room they sit in has 5, 52" large screen plasma TV's, free coffee, donuts, restrooms and parking. Some of the people bring cots to sleep while others even bring the kids during the summer months.
This is happening across the country, GM has thousands of laid off employees getting this package.
The union has got GM by the nuts and unless they are allowed to fail the union has the upper hand.
It makes me sick to see those auto workers riding little robotic equipment while installing parts of the cars... Anyone else ever see that ****? The workers don't have to bust a grape. Try to find a picture of a GM worker with sweat on his or her brow.... It's stupifying.
GM can put out all the propaganda they want but I feel that without getting a handle on the mandatory benefits, medical packages and pension payments the unions have contracted them for, they won't ever survive.
Bail out or not.
I'm not a union hater, in fact I'm a union member. Like most of you, I pay more than my fair share of taxes.
Rich
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Like it or not it is just going to get worse unless we the people change the way we think and work. We want want want but no one wants to work for it. When you work 6 days a week at over 10-12 hours a day to keep things going and the government just wants to take more and more how long can you hold out for. FIX THE GOVERNMENT and you fix the problems.
GM has the most retirements so they have huge payouts everymonth. Toyota has not been around long enough to feel it but they will over time. Unless they dont care about their workers at least GM stands behind them for the most part. Not saying they are perfect but I know alot of guys that have retired from GM and they are very well taken care of and I think that is the largest problem they have.