Re: [Pen-l] labor and the auto companies

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Naiman <naiman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What about the part of the story that part of the costs of GM is health care benefits that in Canada would be paid by the government? Wouldn't it make sense, as part of the restructuring, to transfer the health care costs of the workers and retirees to the government? Isn't the government supposed to be doing universal health care anyway? Why should health care costs be part of the economics of GM in the US  when it isn't part of the economics of GM in Canada?<

for awhile the US "Big Three" automakers' executives were pushing for
government-financed health care as a way of off-loading health costs.

(I guess they should be called the "Little Three." Only their incomes
and their corporate jets are big these days.)

-- 
Jim Devine /  "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange
days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL.
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