Toyota workers in Kentucky plant made more than UAW members last year

[Beryl Octet]

http://www.www.autoblog.com/2007/01/31/toy...r-first-time-l/

Last year was the first time that non-unionized workers at a foreign-owned assembly plant made more than members of the United Auto Workers union make on average in a year. The Detroit Free Press reveals in a very interesting article that Toyota paid out bonuses of $6,000 to $8,000 last year at its largest U.S. plant in Georgetown, KY. Combined with the base pay made by a non-union worker at the plant, that equates to $30/hour or $60,000/year based on a 2,000-hour work year. That is more than the $27/hour or $54,000 a UAW member made on average last year. Union workers, of course, hardly received any profit sharing bonuses last year due to the poor overall performance of the domestic automakers.

[JimN]

I went to the site, read the article and a page of replies. On face value good reasons to have no sympathy for the plight of the Detroit automakers. A pox on both your houses (management & union).