United Auto Workers bargainers are coming to town next week to prepare for national contract talks later this year with Detroit's automakers. All you need to remember are three numbers:
First, $6.6 billion, the profit Ford Motor Co. booked last year. Second, $4.7 billion, General Motors Co.'s earnings in 2010. And, third, $133 million, the sum total of long-term stock awards Ford granted its top 20 executives — $56.5 million of which, pretax, ended up in CEO Alan Mulally's portfolio. Cash bonuses for last year? Those are still to be released.
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