UAW: Prepare to strike Delphi

[91z4me]

Actually, my "blame Canada" remark was not made in jest.  The socialist Canadian government forces pharmeceutical companies to lower prices of drugs sold in Canada.  This causes those companies to sell their prescription drugs at a higher price in companies where price regulation doesn't exist.  Which is why drug prices in the US or so damn high.

Well, that and the FDA.

[post="28765"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post]

Pharmecutical companies charge what they do to make larger profit. Wanna guess which industries typically post the highest profits? Oil and engergies, Drug companies, Insurance companies, everyone else. Most likely in that order.

[The O.C.]

nice catch, the light is on.

thank you

and

THANK YOU.

I wouldn't be able to live with all the freaks in CA.  IF I WAS in CA I would have a RWD car, actually.  SO THERE> THANKS FOR PLAYING

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"Freaks" in CA...? I take offense to that....

B)

Speaking of freaks, have you seen the movie "Fargo?" Fargo isn't far from MN, is it..?

http://www.cheersandgears.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/AH-HA_wink.gif

(just kidding...)

[Ghost Dog]

"Freaks" in CA...?  I take offense to that....

B)

Speaking of freaks, have you seen the movie "Fargo?"  Fargo isn't far from MN, is it..?

http://www.cheersandgears.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/AH-HA_wink.gif

(just kidding...)

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Ya, actually most of the movie is set in Mn. Ya it is.

[regfootball]

Sorry bud but I am going to burst your bubble.  I make $10 an hour and work right at 40 hours a week.  My wife is a school teacher she makes the equivilent of $13 an hour at 40 hours a week.  We are both paying back student loans.  We are paying off a loan on her car.  We have a 600 a month rent on our appartment we pay for electric and do not have gas.  We have renters insurance and pay for car insurance for both cars, about $650 every 6 months.  We have made less when we were in school and for about a year after we got out of school.  We have in the past 6 years put away $25,000+ in savings in addition to paying all of our living expenses we also have cable and cable internet access.  We also have cell phones.

When we didn't have a lot of extra money to spend we didn't have cable.  We used dialup and we didn't then or now subscribe to magazines.

You can live off of $10 per hour, I am living proof. BTW we are buying a house when I move to St. Louis and start Chiropractic College.  I will not be working and will use student loans to cover school.  We WILL live off of what my wife will earn.  Why?  Because you live within your means!

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you might want to check housing prices before you confidently say you will be buying one.

[regfootball]

Ya, actually  most of the movie is set in Mn. Ya it is.

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that movie to me kind of sucked, but didn't, but what is so funny about that movie is that there are a few scenes in there I am absolutely familiar with exactly where they were filming the shots.

[razoredge]

Sorry bud but I am going to burst your bubble........We WILL live off of what my wife will earn.  Why?  Because you live within your means!

[post="29517"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post]

Not much of a bubble to burst, so Ill assume you meant nothing demeaning to me by that.

We had been somewhere around what you are talking for years, back in the 80's early 90's. Became better established in the 90's bought and paid for cheap house, got business loans paid off, all was brite. Then came this "new millinium", new better economy, but it didnt come to our house. It did however come to many many other areas and we heard that sucking sound.

Am I supposed to agree with this ? NOT ! Ive been a contributor, Ive towed the line, Im not alone.

Its good to know that some like yourself agrees with it though. Im sure theres a few here now that will know theres no need to give that next REAL pay raise, because you have just illustrated how easy it is to get ahead at 10-13 dollars an hour. Im highly suspect however, your complete figures would not pass the calculator test in my area and I/we are the living defination of cheap. Maybe your teachers benefits help ? http://www.cheersandgears.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/AH-HA_wink.gif

So your living proof someone can live off 10 bucks an hour ? Well so am I. So what are you saying ? "Hey all you employers 10 bucks an hour is great, look at me ?" Well hey, Im living proof a man can live on 2.10 an hour too, 3.50 an hour 4.00, an hour, 6 an hour, Im up to 1980 now :rolleyes: Was up to 10 + by 82 running ariel cable, by the hour for some stuff, by the foot for normal production which could approach 20per on a good day. BUT!!!!!! I was laid off approx half a year and it rained half of the other half (exageration) and work was very hard to come by and money was pathatic, so by 84 I was self employed and said good by to $per hour and went full production 365 (nearly). Was great and proud until the "new" "global" "economy" "millinium".

Somehow I never felt very manly back in 2000 & 2001 when I was walking through the door with 326 dollars a week spending down our savings which was little more than money left over from my once fairly prosperous business.

Got Kids ?

[Cory Wolfe]

Yep, well you go into your first job interview and tell them that so they know enought to pay you less. Of course you have lots of experience in the job market, bill paying, rent, mortgages, pay your own auto insurance ? tax's, and of course you have an interest in a future right ?

Then show it !  :blink:

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Holy hell... You make saying anything in this thread a bitch to do. :blink: :rolleyes:

Have you been to Brookville? No. That's about the most anyone gets paid around here. The average house costs anywhere from $50k to $100k. In fact, my parent's bought our current house for $20k back in 1990. Currently, my mom works for a carbon company making small parts for appliances and automobiles and such. My dad works for an oil company on a drilling rig. They both make under $10 an hour. They have two kids, me and my brother. They pay the bills, insurance, tax's, the mortgage, as well as a few loans. Guess what... We've all survived off of it, which you said wasn't possible. And I quote: "its impossible to live in this world today on 10-15 dollars an hour." So, still don't believe me? Then get your ass over here and see for yourself. As I said, my parent's would kill to be making that much while you're whining about how it isn't sufficient to live off of.

[regfootball]

generally it seems that the ratty real estate professionals find a way to evolve the housing market in any particular area to a point where housing always consumed a huge part of your income, whether you make 10 bucks an hour, or 30. Here now in the mpls area if you really want to see a notable difference in housing values away from the metro area, you gotta go about an hour or more out to see housing savings. but the gasoline bandits this year decided to fix that problem for the folks who drive a lot to work and so now whatever you saved on housing by being farther away from the expensive areas, well you are paying an assload more now in fuel. in other words, YOU CAN'T BEAT THE SYSTEM. Edited October 17, 2005 by regfootball

[Angry Dad]

Following by example? Erstwhile cigar-chomping Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca took just a $1 salary--but a truckload of stock options--as Chrysler struggled to avoid bankruptcy in the late 1970s. Iacocca became something of a cause celebre; his $1 salary motivated the likes of Ol' Blue Eyes himself--Frank Sinatra performed Chrysler ads for a buck--and Bill Cosby entertained employees for free. Top brass at embattled auto parts maker Delphi (otc: DPHIQ - news - people ) may not have the same celebrity pulling power or charisma as Iacocca, yet they're following in the footsteps of the feted industrialist, who once informed union leaders he had thousands of jobs for $17 an hour, but none at $20. Delphi execs are to take a pay cut while the company seeks concessions from hourly workers, all part and parcel of a financial reorganization under U.S. bankruptcy protection. Chairman and CEO Robert S. Miller will reduce his $1.5 million base salary to $1 per year beginning on January 1, 2006; this will continue for as long as it takes for the company to successfully emerge from Chapter 11. Other execs who were at Delphi when Miller joined have also volunteered to waive 10% of their base pay, with President Rodney O'Neal foregoing 20% of his salary. Delphi filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Oct. 8 after failing to parley a restructuring agreement with the United Auto Workers union and its former parent, automotive giant General Motors

[soozi2u]

politics! politics! politics! Let us all have patience to see "what exactly the underlying motive" really is! I refuse to purchase any vehicle made outside of this country! I always check to see "where" it was assembled! Do you? Actually, General Motors and/or other car manufacturing plants don't really care since they make more money,"at this particular time in history", in Asia! I think our government has sold us down the drain by offering incentives to companies (any company) for sending their business to foreign countries. I cant even call AOL and ask a question without having to talk to someone in a foreign country!! Oh, Yeah, I have a college degree plus a masters degree! I just thought I would say that before someone decided to tell me I only have a HS/GED. I have discovered that in a lot of subjects those people are more in the reality of the "real world"!