Well...when you have an entire population of UAW haters chanting "pay-cut, pay-cut, pay-cut"...what do you want him to say?
This was the quote in full context, and he's basically repeating what's been said before about the idea behind the $1 CEOs...it's not going to do anything to help, it's purely symbolic - and logically worthless to worry about.
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Gettelfinger said the union will suspend the "jobs bank" at GM. That is a jobs guarantee program that pays laid off auto workers up to 95% of their regular pay. He said the union is also open to suspending the jobs bank at Ford and Chrysler. But he said this and other help from the union is not enough to save the automakers from their current crisis.
"To be honest with you, right now if the UAW members went in these facilities and worked for nothing...it would not help the companies that much," he said.
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The part in Bold is what most interests me the most...this is HUGE. It's pretty much the entire point behind a union; worker protection in the event of layoffs. It's gone...that was one of the points the senators kept bringing up during the hearings; I'm glad they chose to get rid of it!!
