Quote Originally Posted by AirMax95
Greed runs a lot of this country.
I will start off by saying that I will almost always side with business in these discussions, but I do agree with most of this. Greed runs in ALL areas of this discussion, but it is an individual mentality, not a corporate one. From the CEO's that cook the books to hit their benchmarks for incentive pay, to the union leaders that strongarm businesses into meeting their demands, no matter how unreasonable.

Quote Originally Posted by AirMax95
Until CEO's, upper level management, supervisors, and the like can sit down with Union reps and layout a compromise, nothing will change.
I firmly believe in this. Unions need to back off business, especially in these hard times for businesses. For example, the UAW, a 20% reduction in pay across the board(this also includes execs) with benefits, bonuses and incentives still 100% in tact for anyone under the executive level and a cut of 20% for anyone on the executive level would relieve the Big 3's financial crunch. The employees will still be making an average pay of nearly $15/hr which is definately a livable wage in 99% of the country if you are smart about it.

After doing a little research, I really wish the UAW would publish its pay scales so I could be more accurate. The best I could find was the total HR costs for GM divided by man hours which equates almost $70/hr.