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Originally Posted by Thor142
Well lets face it. Paying an assembly line worker $40 an hour for doing a menial task is as smart as paying a burger flipper $15/hr. Of course corporations are going to look for alternatives. Don't worry the Mexicans will lose their $7 an hour jobs too once everything is automated.
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Paying that assembly worker $40/hr isn't the biggest issue, its having twice as many retirees on the payroll as active employees.
I know an older guy who's mother in law is in her late 90's. Her husband worked for Chrysler until sometime in the 70's, retired, then died. She has been collecting his pension longer than he actually worked for the company.
I think GM shed all those pensions to the UAW, but I don't know if Ford did.