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labour standards in germany require employers to provide 30 paid vacation days per year compared to ZERO days in the usa:
CBC News Interactive: Vacation nations
Straw man! The US does not require any business to provide paid vacations. Instead, the UAW has paid vacations built into the labor contracts themselves.

Try not to skew the facts next time...

Holidays - 2003 UAW GM and Delphi Report

From UAW's own site (GM/Delphi):
A total of 67 paid holidays will be provided to UAW GM and Delphi workers over the four-year term of the proposed agreement. The tentative agreement adds a local Election Day holiday on Nov. 8, 2005, and retains the two national Election Days negotiated in the last agreement.

The holidays will celebrate Veterans Day in each year.

The tentative agreement also maintains the Monday after Easter, the day commemorating the birthday of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the paid Christmas through New Yearâ??s shutdowns.
This of course is only based on holidays. As a rule of thumb for the UAW, they give you also three weeks of paid vacation for under ten year employees. After ten years in the UAW, you will get three weeks plus 1 day per year over ten.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/bu...gewanted=print
"The average hourly cost of an auto worker in western Germany is the highest in the industry, at $40.80. That compares with $35.40 in Japan, $34.80 in the United States, $27.60 in France and $5.40 in Slovakia, where Volkswagen has an assembly plant."
Another straw man! The $34.80/ hr does not include the wonderful benefit package UAW members are also entitled to which is right around $35/ hr. What is Volkswagen's (or any German company for that matter) labor cost per hour?

Of course it is much less than that of the US auto worker, which goes very far in explaining US worker productivity dwarfing that of Germany.