@BerateBirthers: Because $50 an hour for a line worker is totally warranted, right?My father works in the auto industry. ArvinMeritor, more specifically. They've never been unionized, and he makes roughly $30 an hour as an equipment specialist. That's more than generous (~$60,000 a year) and, with the money my mother makes (About $40,000 a year), they are in the upper middle class.Unions have killed the auto industry as much as the Big Three's lack of innovation and stupid spending has. $50 for a worker on the line is freaking ridiculous. $30 an hour for twenty years of loyalty and hard work, hardly slave's pay, is more than reasonable. Work hard, and you'll get the money. Union or not. Unions ensure that the people who don't work as hard get the money as well and that, in my opinion, is an injustice to those who do their share.