The argument comes nearly 90 years after Henry Ford began paying workers $5 per day in hopes that the workers would be able to afford one of their own products, a Ford Model T.
But a dual income family? "Then they could clearly afford a new car," Johnson told the Detroit News.
The UAW negotiated the $14 hourly rate in 2007 and, despite his concern that workers can't live up to the standard promised by Henry Ford, Gettelfinger nonetheless defended the concessions. More tenured workers earn more than double the $14 hourly rate.
"We did what we had to do to get to tomorrow," Gettelfinger said.
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