Yeah, In Brazil if you flip hamburgers at McDonalds you have to work two hours to buy one Big Mac. So it says that if not for the unions Ford might be paying US auto workers kinda like how the non union Ellis County factories pay. Just about enough to live paycheck to paycheck.
The unions are a pain, but I'd rather not be dropped to third world nation wages. In the beginning the unions were good. They got decent wages for a job done and forced the bosses to quit treating workers like slaves. Other than that, they have some very good ideas in the Brazil plant.