Here’s what UAW President Ron Gettelfinger had to say about CEO compensation: “In 1980, it was 40 times [what the ordinary worker gets paid], and now it's 344 times -- because some [CEOs] took a cut in pay to $6.5 million, something like that. People say we [UAW members] think we're entitled. The only thing we're entitled to is to work 58 minutes out of the hour, and at the end of the day we're working just as hard as at the beginning. Is anybody [among CEOs] working that hard? I'd like to see it.”
• From the Atlanta Journal Constitution: A Toyota driver said her car accelerated out of control before plunging through a wall of her home Wednesday. The driver of the Camry told firefighters she was pulling into her garage when the vehicle accelerated forward out of control. It went through the closed garage door and came to rest after crashing through the back wall of the house, fire officials report.
• From the Sheboygan Press: Federal and state investigators were in Sheboygan Falls on Wednesday to examine a Toyota Camry that reportedly accelerated on its own into a wall, injuring the driver. The car has been in police impound since March 29, when it slammed into the south wall of the Sheboygan Falls YMCA. The driver, Myrna Marseille, 76, of Kohler, suffered a broken sternum as she slammed into the steering wheel because the airbags did not deploy. Marseille said she was pulling into a parking stall with her foot on the brake when the car surged forward with an "awful roar" and traveled up a slight embankment into the wall. Chief Steve Riffel has said witness accounts appear to confirm Marseille's account, and Marseille said she was told those witnesses saw her brake lights illuminated as the car accelerated.
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