UAW Employees Earn $130,000 a Year

    Here’s a little known fact about the Big Three automakers: The average unionized worker costs his or her employer about $75 an hour in wages and benefits. That’s more than $130,000 a year — three times as much as the typical American worker. With executives for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler pleading their case for a government bailout, it’s worth remembering the UAW’s role in | Read More »

    Republican Leaders Must Put Principles Before Parochial Politics

    Reps. Thaddeus McCotter and Dave Camp want to be among the next generation of House GOP leaders. McCotter is running for reelection as chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee and Camp is angling to be ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee. Both lawmakers hail from Michigan, and for that reason, they support a bailout of the Big Three automakers. Congressmen should take | Read More »

    Republicans Have a Chance at Redemption

    Michelle Malkin offers sound advice for Republicans on Capitol Hill: The first step toward GOP redemption is to stop the automakers’ bailout and roll back the creeping conversion of the Crap Sandwich 2.0 into an all-purpose bailout bonanza for every last American industry and corporate special interest in financial peril. For those of you who don’t read Malkin regularly, Crap Sandwich 2.0 is her description | Read More »