{"id":193719,"date":"2008-11-21T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/21\/lies-republicans-tell\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T23:46:00","slug":"lies-republicans-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/21\/lies-republicans-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies Republicans Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the (I can&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;m quoting them) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New Republic<\/span>, they have a very good analysis of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/politics\/story.html?id=1026e955-541c-4aa6-bcf2-56dfc3323682\">the labor costs of the Big 3<\/a> (Big 2\u00bd), and it confirms what I have been saying, that $70\/hour cost of a UAW employee <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is a lie<\/span>, and attempts to equate the cost retirees with the current labor costs in order to attack unions.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that, after the latest round for cuts, the hourly rate and benefits for current workers are probably a bit <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">less<\/span> than the transplants.<\/p>\n<p>The Big 3&#8217;s (Big 2\u00bd) labor problem is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> the cost of its workforce, it&#8217;s the fact that it has been contracting its labor force for 4 decades, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">management<\/span> has systematically underfunded pensions, and now they find themselves in a vice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the (I can&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;m quoting them) New Republic, they have a very good analysis of the labor costs of the Big 3 (Big 2\u00bd), and it confirms what I have been saying, that $70\/hour cost of a UAW employee is a lie, and attempts to equate the cost retirees with the current &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,1051,1023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-hypocrisy","category-labor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}