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Originally Posted by Wes Tausend
The Heritage Foundation is an American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies drew significantly from Heritage's policy study Mandate for Leadership...
I think your source may be a bit biased and I will go so far as to suggest The Heritage Foundation exists solely to disseminate false corporate propoganda so that large segments of the population swallow the BS. Just like they did the Trickle Down deregulation theory that has self-imploded. While I appreciate the link, I simply can't rationally believe it. The $76/hr sounds inflated, meant to inflame public indignation. But I don't have time for a more rational link just now. Sorry. 
I hope you made your $80K by actually working a lot of overtime ...back when overtime pay wasn't banished by GW several years ago, by the way.
There is no free lunch, not really, except for the guy pocketing your overtime.
Either way, I hope you get your $80K back. Unions are greedy bastards. But you sound very altruistic. 
Wes
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Altruistic? I've not been cited as being altruistic until now. Actually, the word is 'realistic' in that I thought in 2002 that GM was too big to fail. It was an investment and, no - I've not been paid for overtime for 25 years.
Here's the bottomline - UAW workers are entitled to whatever they can negotiate as are all American workers, but bailing out the company given the wage/benefit structure, along with other factors, with
public funds is way over the top.
As for The Heritage Foundation - it presents the conservative point of point which may appear to be biased but in this case is a statement of fact as cited by others above. The UWA wage/benefit structure is what it is.