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To: tejek who wrote (438110)	12/4/2008 1:03:31 PM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573984

In Germany, unions are very strong in both white and blue collar ranks...members of unions even sit on boards of directors and they have such things as 6 week vacations, lots of religious and secular holidays, health care and pensions with a lots of government help as I recall...been some time since I lived there. They even had something called 13th month which was an extra month's pay at the end of the year as I remember and 37 hour work week. And they still threaten to go on coordinated strikes. I have seen some reports that German car worker wages and benefits exceed UAW and would not be surprised if that is true. With all that the German government seems to think their auto industry is too important too fail...can you imagine??? But then the Germans do not practice our brand of socialism...dumping $800 Bn each and every year now into a deeper and deeper hole that we call "defense" that does a "great?" job of destroying and killing humans. iht.com And I recently heard or read in the press that the German government is giving or planning $60 Bn loans to their car manufacturers and think similar plans are underway in France and Italy...not sure what is happening in Spain. All have strong unions though and this sudden auto sales slump is effecting all of them seriously throughout the world including the Japanese. The ports on the west coast are full of their cars. Heard that Brazil and China are doing loans for their home manufacturers also. I will leave the Google efforts to verify this information to Jozef Halada who gets his expertise there. He also says he owns a car and therefore he is no doubt an "expert" on the Auto Industry.