On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:05:49 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:


wrote in message
et...
On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:38:52 -0500, D.Duck wrote:


You just want to see what some bankruptcy judge would do to union
contracts.

Direct labor costs are only @10% of the cost of building a car. If you
want to cut costs, labor isn't the place to start.


............... and assuming that the assembly line workers are being paid
twice what they are worth (according to some here), that means only 5% of
the overall costs could be saved by attacking union workers and cutting
their renumeration by half.
I wonder what advertising cost the Big Three? It must be expensive hiring
agencys to make up new bull**** every year.


Would a thousand dollars have no impact on your car selection? If that
thousand dollars had been put into reliability, would they be in the shape
they're in now?
--
John H.