GM posts record $38.7 billion loss for 2007

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Feb 12, 2008 | 05:24 PM

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mmarshall

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Originally Posted by Bean

$28/hr is WAY WAY too much money to be paid for the work autoworkers do. You come in completely unskilled and then make the avg salary of a normal Engineer with a BS degree. And you learn how to bolt a door on a car frame quickly or install a bumper support. Servers at restaurants do 4x the work with no breaks and no incentives and don't make anywhere near as much.

Working on today's cars in a plant is not flipping burgers at McDonalds or loading groceries in front of a supermarket. You've got to KNOW your stuff. People's lives can depend on it.....especially with steering, suspension, tires, fuel lines, etc...
A mistake in a fuel line can turn the car into a fireball.

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I have no sympathy for those that are losing UAW jobs; snap back to reality.

The reality is that can be HARD work. You try bending down, over and over, 8 or more hours a day, under seat after seat, and dash after dash, installing wiring and connectors. You'd probably be in the hot tub relaxing sore muscles after just the first day. And, do that for a while, and you get classic repetitive-motion injuries.

This is not the 1950s, when you just bolted in a bench seat with one or two manual lever-adjusters. Today, when you install a seat, there is power motors, wiring, connectors, head rest attachments, lumbar support, heating and cooling, etc.... It is REAL work.