A UAW goon threatens to do this unless he gets a deal.
Posted on 05/03/2006 11:28:47 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
The UAW plans to ask its 24,000 members at Delphi Corp. to authorize a strike.
UAW Vice President Richard Shoemaker gave the go-ahead Wednesday when he met in Detroit with UAW local presidents and other officials on the union’s Delphi council.
The locals, representing workers at about 20 Delphi plants, have until May 14 to conduct the votes, said UAW spokesman Paul Krell. The authorization would give the international union the ability to strike Delphi if it cannot reach agreement on wage and benefit concessions of 60 percent that Delphi is demanding.
A union official who attended the UAW council meetings Tuesday said Shoemaker, who is head of the General Motors and Delphi departments, painted a pessimistic picture that a negotiated settlement with Delphi could be reached before the end of June.
Delphi, which put its U.S. operations in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October, has petitioned the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York to terminate its labor agreements with its six unions, including the UAW. The first hearing on the matter is scheduled for May 9.
The UAW has said that it will strike if the court terminates the agreements. GM is trying to help resolve the dispute by offering buyouts to its 113,000 UAW workers and paying for the buyout of up to 13,000 Delphi workers. Another 5,000 Delphi workers could flow back to GM, Delphi's former parent.
Delphi's second-largest union, the IUE-CWA, saw its 8,500 Delphi members approve a strike-authorization vote earlier this year.
The buyout packages range from a lump-sum payment of $35,000 to coax hourly workers with 30 years' seniority to retire to a lump sum of $140,000 for workers with more than 10 years' seniority but less than 27 years who are willing to give up rights to post-retirement health care and other benefits.
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You mean uglier.
The UAW plans to ask its 24,000 members at Delphi Corp. to authorize suicide .
UAW - United Against Work
"Now is the time to shed these union parasites and rebuild their companies."
That's about the only thing that can save 'em.
So true.....
I can only relate this to my experience working in defense during the early nineties when the Union was requesting everyone vote for Clintoon. I was a strange bird in that I was a college attending Republican who also became a Union steward. I had the fun of watching all my Union brothers get walked out the door while my 'super seniority' kept me on board until I quit on my own.
National healthcare would solve one of the major sticking points here. I know that is not popular on FR, but something has to be done to get healthcare affordable on the individual level and it appears the free market is not up to the task. That leaves the Feds.
Maybe they will keep moving their facilities from the rust belt to the southeast. We are willing to work for rational wages here. And despite popular opinions, we are not all dumb and ignorant in the south. In addition to that, we don't mind doing a little work.
Just shut Delphi down now, and liquidate its assets. That's where all this is headed.
There is a free market in the health insurance industry? Could have fooled me. Your proposed solution is socialism and it will surely fail. The solution to a problem caused by to much government meddling is not more government meddling.
"National healthcare would solve one of the major sticking points here."
How's that? I've never been a member of a union and have been offered affordable healthcare insurance on most every full-time job I've had. What does that have to do with unions?
Lots of biznus cents there in the UAW!
The U.S. auto industry is in great shape to make concessions to the union.....
/sarc
A UAW goon threatens to do this unless he gets a deal.
Hillary Clinton, is that you?
IMHO, you have healthcare because of the unions. I agree there is a lot of waste by them, but by and large we have the standard of living we have today because of unions. The sticking point I was referring to was the loss of healthcare benefits at retirement. That is probably the angle the unions will put to the workers as to why they should strike. Just a guess though.
Anyway, when the union influence is gone, healthcare will go the way of pensions (another dirty word here). Hey if there are solutions out there, let's hear 'em, but if you run the numbers on the savings required to get through retirement (including healthcare), I doubt 1 in 1000 Americans will be prepared. That again, means Fed involvement, whether we like it or not.
"Anyway, when the union influence is gone, healthcare will go the way of pensions (another dirty word here)."
My industry non unionized and competes with no union employees. There is no union alternative for me but I still get good rates on health insurance because, quite honestly, it is part of my salary package. My company is under no pressure, except from it's non-union employees, to supply low-cost healthcare insurance. If you want good people working for your company, you offer benefits or they go elsewhere.
This is just procedural posturing, and not unexpected. Virtually nobody who is following GM closely, either in the financial sector or the automotive sector, seriously believes that the UAW will strike Delphi.
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