Sperm more Profitable than Cars

Production or Reproduction?

By PH Staff / Friday, 8 November 2002 / Loading comments

If British factory workers think they're underpaid then they should pause for a moment and consider the plight of their Romanian colleagues. One hundred workers at a Car factory in central Romania are planning to subsidise their company by selling their sperm.

The workers are afraid of losing their jobs at the factory which makes 4WD vehicles. The company owes millions and is struggling to pay its 5,000 workers.

The volunteers are planning to go to a sperm bank in a nearby town place deposits worth $50 each. The workers on average receive $80 a month as car workers.

The idea is also a demonstration against the Government agency that is supposed to be finding investment to privatise the plant.

Union leader Ion Cotescu said "Our feasibility study shows that if 1,000 workers donate their sperm for several months, we can get enough funds to pay part of the plant's debts."