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I would personally approve having the CEO's corporate planes auctioned off to pay the wage slaves, but I didn't get to vote on this one

ghostjmf wrote:source NPR

I would personally approve having the CEO's corporate planes auctioned off to pay the the wage slaves, but I didn't get to vote on this one

I wonder what percentage of your salary the "wage slaves" at Ford make.

TheCalvinator24 says:

I wonder what percentage of your salary the "wage slaves" at Ford make.

Many of them, who have been there 24 years as I have been here, certainly make more than I do. And deserve it, too. I don't have to operate dangerous & ear-damaging machinery.

My grandfather worked for Ford umpteen years; he got laid off when he got sick, & the Ford Company physicians swore up & down that the chemicals he had to work with couldn't possibly have been the cause of his major organ failures. This was in the 50s, before the several lawsuits were won linking various chemical agents to various forms of cancer & other liver & kidney damage. At least that component of "what makes auto workers sick" has been addressed, these days.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:source NPR

I would personally approve having the CEO's corporate planes auctioned off to pay the the wage slaves, but I didn't get to vote on this one

I wonder what percentage of your salary the "wage slaves" at Ford make.

Probably about 200% to 300%.

Ford has thus far managed to avoid the need to request a government bailout, and they managed to convince the unions that it was better to compromise than to go down like the other auto makers. So the "job bank" that paid laid off workers almost a full-time salary has been abolished, and the pension funding has been redone (I question this one because it replaces cash with stock, and if stocks continue to decline this will eventually put the pension plan in the hands of the government agency that "rescues" failing plans).

TheCalvinator24 said:

I wonder what percentage of your salary the "wage slaves" at Ford make.

BobJuch said, re me:

Probably about 200% to 300%.

Uhhh....from having read about salaries of 24-year-service union workers at Ford, a lot of them make the same or more than I do, but not 200 & 300 percent what I do. Not the union workers.