GM aka the big three are the only ones begging for this bailout.
Kia is building a huge plant currently on Georgia-Alabama border.
More foreign car makers build cars in the south because those employees are grateful for their high paying jobs.
Welfare ( blue states) states have called us hillbillies and such.
Who is laughing now?
I heard this is off-all cars are not selling you know. No need to pretend to provide America jobs anymore either with the big three gone.
Nice work if you can get it. Pulled this off a website, Carpe Diem, a blog of an econ professor’s at Flint Michigan: Labor cost per hour, wages and benefits for hourly workers, 2006.
Ford: $70.51 ($141,020 per year)
GM: $73.26 ($146,520 per year)
Chrysler: $75.86 ($151,720 per year)
Bottom Line: The average UAW worker with a high school degree earns 57.6% more compensation than the average university professor with a Ph.D. (see graph above, click to enlarge), and 52.6% more than the average worker at Toyota, Honda or Nissan.
Not 100% sure it is accurate, but interesting.