A re-print from MSNBC website. Regarding Northern and Southern Auto Workers.

Not much difference in pay
For all the divisions between the two camps, there isn’t much difference in their pay. The GM workers average about $28 an hour, though new workers receive far less. The Nissan workers make about $25 an hour, the company said.

“The overall compensation for a worker is not that different whether it’s a foreign or domestic automaker in the U.S. — they’re all in the same ballpark,” said Kristin Dziczek, assistant director of research at the Center for Automotive Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “They have to be. Good wages and benefits avoid unionization.”

The biggest difference in the labor costs is that the foreign automakers don’t have to pay for legions of retirees — their workers are younger and haven’t received benefits that are as generous, Dziczek said.

Good article. Thanks for the link.

Now, where did you get that information from? I watch the news a lot and have not heard of this. Or is this just some more hate Bush talk? Say anything bad about Bush you want to and it will be believed and passed around like gospel. Bush has done plenty wrong, but he did not cause the financial crisis we find ourselves in. Granted he could have done more, but he didn’t. Congress was warned dozens of times by members of the administration and by some members of congress, but they would not listen. They wanted to keep forcing bad loans on the banks so they could drive up housing ownership among the poor. A 12 year old could tell that would not work for very long.

Thanks for the article. It was very interesting to read.

Monday December 15, 2008, 3:36 am EST

SINGAPORE (AP) — Oil prices were steady near $46 a barrel Monday in Asia as investors anticipated OPEC will announce a large production cut at its meeting this week.

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