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[Baalzamon]

SuaveSocialist said:

SpokenTruth said:
So GM just canceled health insurance for 46k workers.

$8 billion in profits (a record).
$0 paid in corporate taxes.
$104 million in tax rebates.
Closing 4 plants contractually obligated not to close).
15,000 employees laid off.

New employees took a pay cut in half to help bail out GM during the recession.

But keep telling me how the employees are just being greedy because they want their fair share of the profit sharing they are contractually obligated to have.

I wonder how much of those record profits are because of layoffs and gutting benefits/wages.  
This is why strong unions are necessary, and why corporate welfare isn't.

To your final point. $0. GM pays the highest wages in the industry. So $0 of these record profits is due to layoffs and gutting benefits/wages.

What part of $63/hour doesn't click with you? There really is just this growing philosophy that businesses should not be earning the profits they do, and they should be obligated to share more of these profits.

You continue to bring up over and over and over all these concessions the workers had to make for the Great Recession, yet continue to (unsurprisingly) ignore that the shareholders lost EVERYTHING. The workers are not the only damn people impacted by this company's profit (or lack thereof).

Being that people get pissy when somebody makes $1/hr more than them, I'm led to believe that nothing will ever result in happiness when it comes to an employee/owner relationship on the grand scale (there are obviously cases where people are happy, but overall, it seems like the majority are not).