JayR

$65K... HAHA That's with EVERYTHING included into an estimated salaried
number, guy I USED to WORK for GM in a factory... and I'm telling you
from the horses MOUTH, ONLY the people that have been working there for
over 20+ YEARS make anywhere from 40-50K/yr and many of them that's
with TONS of overtime. $65K is an estimate with the WHOLE healthcare,
pension plain accounted for! And at the time way back when GM could
afford to pay out those types of packages, they had little competition.
They signed contracts with the workers and they SHOULD be honored. If
anyone should be losing their jobs and PAYING up are the upper
management execs that could have and DID for see all this competition
coming. Don't blame the worker to signing for benefits 20 or more years
ago and still expecting to COLLECT on it. If that busts up the corp,
then guess what - it's NOT their fault. It's the Exec's that OFFERED
them the package. I don't see many Execs making 100 of thousands
offering to take a nice salary cut? Cutting people at the bottom of the
corp is the easy way out and the easy and trivial way to duck
responsibility for past and present mismanagement. And the Corporate
Raiders and takeover specialist just LOVE when this happens. It makes
this quick and easy money: blame the lowly workers for accepting TOO
much PAY! haha should they REJECT a nice contract and get paid a
pittance for working VERY hard and in a very dangerous environment,
while execs and managers on ALL levels get paid VERY well and enjoy
equal or better health care packages? What a joke... more Top-down
responsibility ducking.
I know some people that make ~100K, but they
literally work 12-16hr days/365 including all holidays. And the ONLY
way that they CAN do this is having the TOP level seniority aka they've
worked there well over 20-30 years. Overtime accounts for a LOT of
people that earn in the 40K+ bracket. And ONLY people that have worked
uber long get scheduled high on the list of employees ASKED after every
shift if they WANT to work overtime... if not, they go home after the
usual 8hrs... Or sometimes you'll be required to work a Saturday, which
counts as time+half pay.
Again, it's a farce to think that everyone that works on the
assembly line is making ~65K. Not even close buddy. The white collar
managers make the bulk of the money. My 22year old foreman, who's daddy
was a high level engineer, was making ~$54K/yr and that's ONLY b/c he
was a foreman. No LINE worker is making more than a foreman on an
hourly
basis.
Please stop reading the sensationalized headlines from the mass
money making media, and do some googling to research what the ACTUAL
salaries and wages are for MOST of the employees. Also, you people need
to stop blaming the workers for getting paid whatever they can, and
blame the MANAGEMENT that signs the checks and negotiates the HORRIBLE
and unprofitable deals for parts and bulk production equipment. The
WORKER has little say in how much he/she makes, the management DOES.

I Just love the USA... 100's of millions of idiots blaming the common
worker and lower class for the upper class SELLING out their own
country for profit. The common worker has little control over the
direction of a company. Striking is about all they can do, IF they are
permitted to have a labor union, which is also corrupted by money and
power, like any other fallible human institution. Show a little
compassion, for the blue collar worker is NOT the one sending jobs over
seas for quick profit-&-run deals.... Good day!