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05-21-2008, 09:17 AM
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German carmaker tours Limestone, Chattanooga sites
State and local officials are actively courting Volkswagen to build its proposed U.S. plant in Limestone County near Huntsville.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported Tuesday that Volkswagen officials toured a Chattanooga-area site Thursday after visiting the Huntsville area the day before.
Officials courting VW's plant- al.com |
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05-21-2008, 11:26 AM
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This site is nationally recognized for tracking industrial development in the Southeast....
Southern Business & Development > Home
Read the editorials....this guy usually has the inside scoop. |
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05-22-2008, 07:59 AM
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I'll bet they took them to Greenbriar to eat. It's worked before.  |
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12-04-2008, 09:45 AM
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wages?
Hello all, I'm watching the polititions grill the big 3 execs for the 25 billion loan, and I keep hearing the wages of $71 for the detroit 3 autoworkers vs $27 for foreign automaker wages! can anybody in Alabama working for one of these auto plants tell me what kind of wages the auto plants pay assembly line workers or trades workers? just trying to figure out what the truth is, don't really trust the polititions words. Jeff
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12-04-2008, 02:12 PM
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Workers don't get paid $71 an hour...that's why the automakers started coming South! However...I do have a friend who worked in the local Delphi plant (steering gears for GM vehicles) who made around $100 an hour working overtime, 3rd shift, holiday pay. And 90% pay if the plant laid anybody off.
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Delphi is shutting down. They did work a deal with UAW when they last hired - and these were the people who would work until the plant closed - to starting pay more like $17 an hour instead of $35 an hour.
Now...I'd bet that $71 an hour figure includes health insurance, retirement, union dues, etc.
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12-04-2008, 02:25 PM
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Is it really that difficult?
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Huntsville, AL
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When they say $71 / hr., they actually mean the workers wage plus benefits. It is all factored in together.
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12-06-2008, 12:54 AM
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interesting i will see it ..
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12-22-2008, 08:52 AM
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12-23-2008, 08:44 AM
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I got a good laugh out of this website. It's obviously the brainchild of the same UAW goons that refuse to help save their own jobs by giving back some of their exorbitant pay & benefits. Total hypocrites. |
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12-23-2008, 09:05 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Okie7597
I got a good laugh out of this website. It's obviously the brainchild of the same UAW goons that refuse to help save their own jobs by giving back some of their exorbitant pay & benefits. Total hypocrites.
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I also got a good laugh out of it. It is rather humorous that the "Big Three" can't make the free market work for them like we have in Alabama. What a bunch of whiners. |
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