Richard Neal will tell you that any bailout for Detroit's Big Three isn't going to do anything for him or the hundreds of workers about to lose their jobs at the Lear Corp. auto-supply plant in Tampa, Fla.

Neal, an electrical-control technician and president of the plant's United Auto Workers local, believes an added shot of money will only help accelerate Lear's plans to outsource the plant's assembly work to Mexico and China.

"We were so damn good; we worked so hard," Neal said in frustration. He knows that within a year the Lear plant will be closed and jobs paying an average of $13.50 per hour plus another $10 per hour in benefits will have largely been moved to a country south of the border, where the minimum wage is $5 per day.

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