The jobs we lost were good-paying jobs with good benefits. It s just unbelievable. If we listen to some of the conservatives, they would be shrinking our wages down to the level of the Mexican worker. The UAW has sent our health and safety people to work with Mexican independent unions on their health and safety.
China is worse.
They have child labor, prison labor, no democracy whatsoever. I have mixed emotions about DaimlerChrysler. It was not a merger of equals. It was a takeover. We re a cash cow because over 50 percent of their profits come out of North America.