"The UAW made a big deal about abandoning the benefit whereby laid off workers get paid a substantial portion of their wages even when laid off. It used to be 95%, as I recall. That sounded good, but recent press coverage says that the workers laid off from virtually all the Chrysler plants closed as the result of the Chapter 11 filing are collecting 80% of their straight-time pay. And they're complaining about it! I saw one UAW member interviewed on TV complaining, "...they cut my layoff benefit to only 80%, but my cost of living stays at 100%. That's not fair." That sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me--and not very much of a "give back" by the UAW at all."


VK...this is the part that really galls me ! It is inconceivable to go bankrupt and pay laid off workers to any degree !

My question is this.....are these "laid off workers" collecting 80/95% of their wages which are high, also able to collect any government funds ?

Secondly, are these "laid off" workers counted as unemployed in any government statistics ?