Posted on 09/11/2011 3:44:43 PM PDT by Nachum
With approximately 85 hours remaining before contracts between the United Auto Workers union and Detroit’s Big Three expire, UAW members can expect a substantially higher signing bonus than in year’s past, according to reports. But, just how high the bonuses will be remains under speculation. Sept. 10, the Detroit News: “… Reports that it could be as high as $10,000, which is about three times what union members received for ratifying the last national contract in 2007 are being described as too high.
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I'm with you, love my new Camry. Prior to the Camry, I had a Corolla, that I put 100,000 trouble free miles on.
Interesting 2005 article on the Toyota plant in TX.
http://peoplesworld.org/toyota-truck-plant-to-open-in-san-antonio/
Check out the prediction in the last paragraph...:^)
Time to launch a national boycott of union products. As happy as I have been with my Fords, my next cars will be built in Hyundai’s Alabama nonunion factories. Is there a list of Tea Party friendly products and manufacturers?
Who else outside of Ford makes something like an E series van ?
Besides GM, Mercedes has the Sprinter. That’s all I can think of.
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