On Dec 13, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
CHAD wrote:
Of course, this raises several interesting issues (and forgive me
if I step on some toes) but it would seem to me that the UAW
workers are overpaid. They have better wage and benefits packages
than school teachers and probably faculty at some universities.
No, auto workers are not overpaid, rather it is school teachers who
are underpaid.
I took a bit of a cheap shot at this issue in an earlier post, but
here I will ask the question: a NY Times graphic showed that among
both the Japanese and US carmakers, workers make upward of $45/hour.
And for the Big-3 workers there is also [some] job security, health
and pensions on top of that. That seems not just better than teachers,
but the junior and mid-level members of my much derided tribe:
software engineers. I am not trying to be callous. I fully support the
unions and the rights of workers to earn as close to the owners and
executives as they can get. But what's the truth w.r.t their earnings?
--ravi
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