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The days of union retirees getting $40K/yr pensions, totally free health care and a free trip to Disney World every year are over....if American industry is to survive

Surely you jest! My husband is a Delphi/GM retiree and he sure doesn't get $40K/yr pension. Try more like $12oo per mo.Health care is NOT totally free either. We pay 50% or our medical thank you...And I've never been sent to Disney World for free...Did you just leave the sarcasm button off?

Too bad your husband didn't stick around long enough to be laid off and enrolled in the GM "job bank." He would be getting full pay and benefits including fully paid health insurance and credit toward raises and his pension. And he wouldn't have to work a lick. Right now GM has about 5000 "workers" in their "job bank" and most will stay there until they retire, unless GM goes belly up first.

GM chairman said they need to shed about 25000 more workers by 2008 but for what? They won't save any money! The only hope is to renegotiate this boondoggle with the UAW in 2007, and that ought to be a comedy of errors.

.But then you probably already knew all this, didn't you.