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In reply to the discussion: 45,800 Ford workers to get record $8,300 profit-sharing checks [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)13. That's only about $380 million. Ford's _net_ was $13.6 billion.
I suspect they've long ago amortized the weapons they used to shoot at workers, the bullets, and the spies and finks they paid to hurt them.
So the laborers made all this money, where did the rest of it go? Seems like a lot of leakage.
Otherwise it would have been about $297,000. Each. Couple checks like that could turn that $18/hr into a wage you could house and feed a family with, educate yourself, educate the kids, pay for the city infrastructure. Maybe go out once in a while.
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Congrats auto worker union members.......I'm glad that YOU are getting a big bonus
TheDebbieDee
Jan 2013
#3
Alan Mulalley had done a great job with Ford. Boeing must miss him with it's present problems.
virgogal
Jan 2013
#5
Wow. That's... unreal really. Their bonus is half the average Walmart workers yearly pay
Demo_Chris
Jan 2013
#7
Stories like this one define how the public thinks of unions and union workers
Demo_Chris
Jan 2013
#17
Only real problem is how many really stupid people in this country believe such tripe
The Straight Story
Jan 2013
#25