The company said it narrowed the proposed wage cut and called its offer ''competitive. |
At General Motors, it is going to have to be all in. |
blatant union busting and an insult to every American worker. |
Certainly today's announcement will only make the 2007 negotiations all the more difficult and all the more important. |
Delphi 's misuse of the bankruptcy procedure to circumvent the collective bargaining process and slash jobs and wages and drastically reduce healthcare, retirement, and other hard-won benefits or eliminate them altogether is a travesty and a concern for every American. |
Delphi's contract proposal was not designed to be a framework for an agreement but a road map for confrontation, |
Due diligence is still under way there, so we're not prepared to comment on that, |
has focused squarely on issues and on doing what's in the best interests of workers and their families, refusing to be drawn into divisive personal squabbles. |
He himself (Miller) got a $3 million signing bonus, he gets a $1.5 million salary, he gets $4 million at the end, ... And then you talk about what you want to force down the throat of people who are working for a living. |
His statements fly in the face of everything these workers stand for, |
I think he is probably using that as a scare tactic to try to make the workers bow to him or something, |
I think we're making a mistake if we think in the case of General Motors that health care is the biggest problem that they've got. |
I'd say that's an assumption on his part, |
I've got a pretty handy laundry list of items that are of concern to me. I think you probably know what a lot of them are. |
In the last five days, we have successfully concluded negotiations with five of the largest manufacturers in the world, ... That's five in five. What they do and how they do it basically touches everyone worldwide in one way or another. |