UAW Employees Earn $130,000 a Year

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  November 19th at 12:00 PM  | 

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 »

Republicans Have a Chance at Redemption

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  November 18th at 06:54 AM  | 

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 »