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The day he got home from the Army 37 years ago was the day Angelo Bruno got a job as a painter at Ford Motor Co.'s Michigan Truck Plant. He's been proud of his career -- until now.

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  • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)Disulfate
    Disulfate
    March 20, 2007, 1:39 p.m.

    The auto industry is between a rock and a hard place. There

    are already too many cars and oil is going to run out.

    The unions are too rich and too corrupt. The auto worker is

    faced with this crises. Eventually someone is going to go belly up.

    • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)NelsonR
      NelsonR
      March 20, 2007, 2:26 p.m.

      The key word is globalization. Our nations true leaders the corporate powerbrokers have one desire, larger profits. If this means, and has, less for the middle class, so be it, is their attitude. This swindling of America has been condoned and prompted by the leaders America has elected. Lobbyist and the greedy control your elected leaders.

      Yes, the Unions have been corrupt and their own worst enemies. The pendelum is now swinging away from the middle class and unions to the advantage of the wealthy. But be at ease eventually, dependent on the amount of swing, this country will again have a unified working class that will overthrow the yoke of corporate greed.

      • Avg rating: (+2/-3 -1)SS454
        SS454
        March 20, 2007, 3:16 p.m.

        UAW get some Balls like all U.S unions they cave in as soon as anyone says, or we will close! CLOSE IT...But stop this crap of giving in all the time get some BALLS

        • Avg rating: (+0/-2 -2)NelsonR
          NelsonR
          March 20, 2007, 4:22 p.m.

          Alfalfa - Go ahead give me another bad post rating. As I said above Unions have been their own worst enemies. But I espouse that our elected representatives, as of lately, have squandered the American greed also. They have more power than decrepid Unions who yes, have been frought with corruption and infiltrated by the Mafia.

          Globilization will be a bane on the American middle class yet a useful tool for a bottom line of the corporate world powers, that they are.

          • Avg rating: (+1/-1 0)zplan
            zplan
            March 20, 2007, 9:32 p.m.

            I can certainly feel for anyone who is asked to make concessions, or take less than what they have been accustomed to, but the article said one guy will lose $60,000 in overtime. $60,000 in overtime.[gross O.T. earnings].That is roughly $1105/wk. in O.T. If he is working 20 hrs./wk O.T. that is roughly $55.20/hr. If the O.T. is time-and-a-half then the regular wage is $36.80/hr...At 30 hrs./wk O.T. the O.T. wage is $36.67/hr.,if that is time-and-a-half then the regular wage would be about $24.22/hr. I figure that particular auto worker is making at least 25-35 bucks an hour anyway. I could be wrong.

            • Avg rating: (+1/-0 1)hoppy
              hoppy
              March 21, 2007, 3:48 a.m.

              Want to compete? Then get rid of the unions and build cars like the imports.An entry level worker at the Nissan Plant in Jackson Ms. makes $52,000.00 per year plus benifits.They don't need a union to do it.

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