The link you gave does NOT go to Forbes. It goes to some blogger. There's a link to Forbes on that page, but it's a bad link. For the sake of argument I'll concede that the figures were probably taken from Forbes; what context they were originally in is anyone's guess.
If union wages were the only cost in building a car, you would have a point. But what matters is the TOTAL cost (labor, material, indirect costs, etc.) relative to the actual sales price (wholesale price less incentives). One must be careful when making assumptions that the labor costs of one particular class of employees (union assembly line workers) can be projected to the total vehicle costs. A huge amount of the content of any US-produced car will come from Canada and Mexico; those costs will not be reflected if you only look at the US union worker wages.
Are US assembly line workers overpaid? Probably so. If their wages were more in line with non-union workers, would the survival of the Big Three be guaranteed? Certainly not.
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