[Jeff Higgins]

With the collapse of the U.S. auto industry starting to look more and more inevitable, many seem to be placing a good deal of the blame on the UAW. Its overpaid, underworked workers are becoming the scapegoats as much, if not more so, than the inept, inbred management.

So, can anyone tell me what they make, on the average? Wages, benefit packages, overtime pay, pensions - the "whole ball of wax". I know what our IAM workers make here at Boeing. I know many lump all unions (our IAM included)together as havens for the lazy, unskilled, uneducated that are paid too much for too little. I happen to believe what they pay our IAM workers is comensurate with what they do. But I wonder about the average UAW worker.