(It was) the strategy during the election that was carried out and mandated for me to carry out as the president, and I was suspended for that. |
After some tough negotiations we have reached a tentative agreement. This has been a very difficult and challenging set of negotiations with General Motors and of course we anticipated that. |
All these issues are the same. The right wing and the employers are saying that people shouldn't have security, but people should have the ability to put roots down and buy a home and raise a family. |
Am I a little more optimistic? I guess you could say yes. The only problem we still have is there are still some offsets we find offensive. |
But we're also far enough apart, ... that we could end up in the ditch tonight. |
Chrysler made it very clear to us when we were doing our probing to try to find out where we could get the best agreement on our issues without a strike that ... that if we didn't accepot their demands on outsourcing and (plant) closure that we could not get an agreement with them and they would forsce the dispute, |
Chrysler made it very clear to us when we were doing our probing, to try to find out where we could get the best agreement on our issues without a strike, that . . . if we didn't accept their demands on outsourcing and (plant) closure that we could not get an agreement with them and they would force the dispute, |
Chrysler made it very clear to us when we were doing our probing, to try to find out where we could get the best agreement on our issues without a strike, that ... if we didn't accept their demands on outsourcing and (plant) closure that we could not get an agreement with them and they would force the dispute. |
Clearly, in the wake of today's announcement, the long-run future of the St. Thomas assembly plant is in jeopardy. |
Every member of our union realizes it's not business as usual anymore. |
Ford has asked me for an early morning meeting tomorrow, which indicates to me they wouldn't call us into a meeting unless they had some bad news for us. |
Given the current economic context that we're in, this is not the richest-ever agreement that we have bargained, but it's a responsible bargaining, recognizing all of the issues that we face, |
He says it's much more costly for them to do the same thing and he wanted to be absolutely clear that that's not acceptable and that we have to find a way to deal with that in bargaining. |
I don't buy that they need concessions. |
I don't see an issue out there that would cause us to be out on the street tomorrow at midnight. |