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StreetEdition,May 19 2009, 04:04 AM Wrote:one argument could say that the big 3 could have better value in their cars if most of the production money wasnt spent on union employees.
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If you weren't so blatantly ignorant and misinformed you would know that only 9% of the price of the car is the cost of wages TOTAL for assembly whether it be Union or non-Union employees. Meaning that Union workers could work for free and the cost of the average car would drop less than $2200 (not that the company would pass all or any of that savings to the consumer). Do you see a steep price cut on a Ford Fusion? Those are made in Mexico by non-Union Mexican autoworkers making a third of what an American or Canadian autoworker.

You would also know that the non-Union Toyota worker that lives across the street from me in his $400,000 house makes within $2 an hour of the Union Ford line worker 2 doors down.

So stick to what you know. Which is obviously squat.