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That's what the automakers claim each UAW employee costs them, including all the lawyers, accountants, clerks and hot nurses in the dispensary, it takes to service them.
Some of it are projected costs if they live to be the average actuarial age, collect a pension equal to the average worker at retirements years of service, has a spouse with survivor benefits that lives to the average actuarial age.
Some is services the company is willing to provide, even if the employees don't choose to take advantage of them.
There are plenty of people making more and plenty of people making less. But they make a good living because thanks to the union, they are getting a fair piece of what the company makes on their labor. They are the middle class.
If they chose to be garbage collectors or college professors, they would get what that was worth to their employers.
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The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
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