[GrimJack]

And what, pray tell, is the rest of the free world? And what do they have to do with anything?

Do you have employer-paid insurance? That is a union benefit
Do you get paid overtime over 40 hrs? That is a union benefit
Do you get paid vacation, paid sick? those are union benefits

One executive's golden parachute of $100million is equal to 2000 union employees getting $50thousand a year.

Have you ever been inside a plant where a car is built? How the heck do you compare the skilled labor of a machinist to a stock clerk in Home Depot?

Why are you bringing teachers into this conversation? The starting pay for a union worker is $14.21 per hour - that is about $28,000 per year. If you want to talk about wages/salaries, please remember that you need to compare apples to apples - this means if you drag teachers into the conversation about average wages, you do not get to compare starting wages of a first year teacher to the average of all wages in the union.

Do you know what buyouts are?

So maybe the big 3 unions should only get paid what Toyota workers get paid?
GM says the average UAW laborer makes $29.78 per hour, while Toyota says it pays about $30 per hour.