How come the UAW gets no heat from the media concerning the big 3?

They don't run the companies.

I am a UAW line worker. I make roughly $29 an hour. Our wages and benefits are about 10% of the cost of the vehicle.

I didn't tell the company I work for how much to pay me or what benefits I wanted. I filled out an application and passed the drug test. I have a college education but a high school diploma is all that is required. Any of you could have done the same.

I don't understand the hate and anger directed towards the workers. We don't make the policy. Do you hate the athlete making millions just to hit a ball or the actor, or the singer, or even idiots like Paris Hilton? These people truly make an insane amount of money.

The tax money that is being requested is our tax dollars to. I pay ALOT of taxes, I suspect more than the majority on this site, and if using my tax dollars will save anyone's job, I am all for it. We don't need anymore people out of work.

We didn't put the companies where they are today. You can thank the CEOs, and the dealerships that lied to get loans for people that couldn't afford them all so that the salesman could get a huge commission, blame the banks for not checking to see if these people could afford the loans, blame the consumer that knew he couldn't afford the loan but oh he had to have that big truck with all the extras, just blame the right people.

It's bad karma to hate out of jealousy. Be careful with that.

not an answer- but the big 3 needs to get rid of the uaw to be competitive with foreign companies. these companies are non-union and their cost of producing a vehicle is considerbly less. mainly because they dont pay thier employees as much. making 40 dollars an hour is great, but when the uaw workers are in the cheese line they might be thinking 'you know for what i did, 20 bucks a hour doesnt sound so bad.

what makes me mad is- i want to buy american vehicles and if all the american companies go under then i would be forced to by foreign vehicles. im sure gm, ford, and chrysler do not want to pay their employees so much, but they can hardly do anything about since the employees can strike. the big 3 are losing ground to foreign car companies because they have less profit, because they have to pay their employees so much money. im not against the workers and agree with what the person below me says about not dictating what their pay is. making $20 is decent money, wouldnt the workers rather work for less then not work at all?

the uaw leaders are greedy and it is gonna effect all the union members if the companies fall, not them because they already have a stockpile of dough. maybe you uaw members out there should think about that and confront the uaw leaders, oh but you cant do that because they will find some reason to fire you if you make a ruckus. and round and round we go.

You're source for your statement? How much does the CEO of an auto industry make in ONE DAY? Why blame the worker? And don't give me the $70 an hour drivel....that's been proven wrong.

Try to keep up, the union is making concessions AGAIN while we speak.

media knows better, the more they expose this to the public , the more outcry of no bail out from the people. and that's the last thing the democrats don't want to happen !

Because the media, with a few exceptions, supports the left who in turn support unions.

The workers didn't fly to the meeting in private jets and then beg for money.

Jimmy Hoffa.......... the unions are legalized mobsters and thugs.