[wideawake]

Of course you do.

I believe the cost of training replacement workers + the cost of paying replacement workers' salary + the cost of paying for enhanced security would still be significantly cheaper than paying UAW workers approximately $75 an hour in pay and benefits.

[muawiyah]

They get to that $75 per hour by counting training time as "down time". What you have is an hour of production divided into total company costs (which include executive salaries).

Charles Grassley and a couple of other Congress-critters used to do that with USPS to show that USPS gross productivity was crap, and getting worse. Then, one day, it got better ~ Chuckey Jr. there shut up about it. Dick Strasser, who is retiring this month, didn't.

Guess it depends on who you want to impress, and with what.

[mewzilla]

...than paying UAW workers approximately $75 an hour in pay and benefits.

Whether they actually produce something or not...

Jobs bank programs -- 12,000 paid not to work