http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-141780318.html
check above link to get total numbers in Delphi job bank.... the woman below makes $64k/year for doing nothing. She has done it for 6 years. That is $384k for doing nothing. She is one of about 500 people doing the same thing. The company is in bankruptcy. They can not be fired or laid off.
I think I have it right, if I multiply 64k x 500 it comes out to $32,000,000.00.
It also means their job skills are now 6 years old. In this new economy, they are probably unemployable. Certainly will not get 32 bucks an hour. Plus benes.
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FLINT, Mich. -- All day, Judy Rowe sits in a room at a large, old Delphi Corp. auto parts plant here, reading, sewing or staring into space.
For this she earns $31.80 an hour.
There are 70 people in this room, all employed by Michigan-based Delphi and protected by the United Auto Workers union. They clock in at 6 a.m. and clock out at 2:30 p.m.
But there is nothing for them to do.
"I think I'm slipping into a depression," said Rowe, who has been languishing for six years in this strange and very unique form of unionized employment limbo known as the jobs bank.
If there was work to do, they would be on the manufacturing lines. But there isn't. And they can't be laid off because their union contracts include this unique provision.
The jobs bank is a bullpen of sorts for surplus workers. It was designed two decades ago as a temporary haven that has become a permanent and expensive catch basin for declining auto industry companies.
There are 4,000 workers in the jobs bank at Delphi, which has filed for bankruptcy, and an additional 6,300 in the jobs banks at struggling Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. There are 2,500 more at Chrysler.
At the Delphi East plant in Flint, they get their full salaries for sitting in a large room.