Posted on 03/30/2006 12:54:22 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave
Delphi, UAW Brace For Collision
Delphi Corp. and the United Auto Workers appeared to be on collision course as the union flatly rejected the company's latest contract proposal, which would have reduced by 18 percent the compensation of Delphi's workers to $22 per hour, starting July 1. Under terms of the deal, wages would have continued to drop, falling to $16.50 per hour in September 2007.
The proposal, blasted by the union, also had not been approved by GM. Under the terms of the deal, GM would have had to underwrite a one-time $50,000 payment to Delphi workers to make up for lost wages. Union officials said privately they wouldn't even bother to present it to the Delphi workers for an up or down ratification vote.
It is very likely now that Delphi will ask a bankruptcy judge to cancel its union contracts. Delphi's chairman and chief executive has threatened to petition the bankruptcy court before, but this week's deadline is final, Delphi officials have insisted. Lindsey Williams, Delphi spokesman, said the union is continuing its discussions with the UAW but the deadline is firm.
Meanwhile, the UAW is looking at its options, which include withdrawing from the talks and holding a strike authorization vote among Delphi workers so they will be prepared in the event a walkout becomes necessary, a union spokesman said. Delphi's other major union, the International Union of Electrical Workers-Communication Workers of America, has already gotten strike authorization from its members. Union leaders have warned they will strike Delphi, regardless of the consequences, if the judge voids the current contract and lets Delphi CEO Steve Miller cut the wages of their members.
Analysts have warned that a strike could force GM, Delphi's largest customer, into bankruptcy. As a practical matter, another round of discussions is in the offing even if the Delphi files it motion. Judge Robert Drain isn't scheduled to hold a hearing on the motion to void Delphi's labor contracts until May 8.
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Delphi and GM will go the way of United airlines. The union will drive the drive the company in to the grouund. They are going to hell in a hand basket and the union won't budge.
GM/Ford/and D-C will survive, what I believe will happen is the end of the strangle hold that the (liberal) unions have for the Big 3.
L
Yes.
Both parties can continue down the paths described in the article.
Or they both could sit down and come to an agreement that would help Delphi survive in it's current form and become competitive again, while preserving most of the union members' jobs if the union would get off their duffs and look beyond the next dues payment.
The union is holding out for the demoncrats to sae them like in 1980 when the government bailed out Chrysler.
You'd think these idiots would march down to the border, join hands to keep their "replacement workers" from crossing the border. As soon as they set up their picket lines at Delphi, these Mexican "replacement workers" will be all too happy to do those jobs for $5 an hour, or even less.
And even funnier still, the Democrat representitives voted in by these leftist kooks, are probably going to make it LEGAL for these mexican invaders to work in those plants!!
I can't say I would feel sorry for these idiots. They brought it on themselves. They wouldn't listen.
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It will be far too late when they finally do. They are finnished.
The unions have no concept of the real world. Here in Wichita when Boeing was bought out. The first contract had some concessions in it that the hard liners voted down, they were all very proud of that. When Onex went ahead and bought the company anyway the unions cried foul cause Onex said if the concession were not met then they would not buy the company. Consequently Onex began to cut the work force to cut cost, many were devastated at being let go. Many of them would still have their jobs today if they had voted on the first contract. I don't know where they get the idea that the employer is out to hose them at every turn. Some times work is like a marriage you have to give to get and when times are tough you don't demand steak when you can only afford spam.
L
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Nobody wants to take a major pay cut. They apparently have so little faith in what management is saying, they don't believe their employer is on the verge of bankruptcy. It happened with Eastern Airlines and so many other unionized operations. The unions took a hard stance and their companies went out of business.
Some of that comes from years of mistrust and animosity and from seeing management consistently drawing very large salaries and bonuses.
Like the words in the song........."Nothing from nothing leaves nothing".................
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Or maybe they will just drive the company out of business and everyone will make zilch per hour.
Seriously though, the union is only partly to blame. You can't blame them for trying to hang on to what they have--its human nature. GM is to blame for making lame cars, bad advertising, and agreeing to these ridiculous contracts. The Job Banks idea (paying people for doing nothing) has to be the stupidest idea since communism.
I believe the CEO of Delphi mentioned that the lawn mower guy (union, of course) was making $64 an hour. Something about not being able to stay competitive.
See tagline.
The primary job of unions is to insure income, insurance, and retirement for the union officials.
Mexicans are doing their jobs for $5.00/hour in Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi etc
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