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Ye Gads! Great Scott! Great Jehosafat! They never stop! It was devastating enough that corporate CEOs succeeded in achieving the standard of minimum wages for American workers while they "earned" billion dollar profits through outsourcing. It was devastating enough that they, Wall Street, bankers and mortgage companies, nearly destroyed our economic system through criminal skullduggery. ...more
March 26, 2009
Auto workers are not the blame for the problems of the domestic auto industry, says Kraig Kircher of Holiday. ...more
January 3, 2009
Mr. Gries and Mr. Embarquer: Your responses to my questions signified to me that you both ought to be skating for the "Holiday on Ice" team. You both skated around my questions exquisitely. ...more
December 16, 2008
It's unfortunate that Mr. Parks ignored the part of my letter that said that the rumors of $75 an hour autoworkers had been debunked by mainstream news outlets. Maybe he doesn't understand the word "debunked". ...more
December 13, 2008
Enough of this baloney about $75 an hour for auto workers. My father and brother are retired auto workers. They don't make, nor have they ever made, anything close to that kind of a wage. The $75 an hour story has been debunked by the mainstream TV news outlets but newspapers don't investigate and report anymore. They only re-report and the $75 an hour story sells papers. If, as stated, the autoworkers' wages add 10 percent to the cost of an American auto, why do competing Japanese cars cost 10 percent more for comparable American models? ...more
December 9, 2008
President George W. Bush argued again on Friday for the proposed $34 billion bail out of the country's Big Three automakers, but congressional support was reported as lukewarm, with no specific plan among many options emerging as likely to pass soon. ...more
December 6, 2008
The handwriting was on the wall at least 20 years ago. ...more
November 30, 2008
Lorne H. Spence of Hudson says Republicans are trying to make workers the scapegoats of auto industry problems. ...more
November 26, 2008
John McCain said Thursday that his proposal to suspend the gas tax for three months this summer may need to be extended longer if high gas prices continue to take a toll on the economy. ...more
July 18, 2008
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