The company said it narrowed the proposed wage cut and called its offer ''competitive. |
[On GM possibly offering buyouts to workers:] We're not considering it at this point in time, ... We're not that far along in our discussions. |
[On GM's health care costs:] There are some journalists and pundits that make it seem like health care costs are General Motors' only problem, ... But we don't think it's that simple. |
[On new GM vehicles keeping plants from closing:] We're not good at the niche vehicles, ... A hit product can make a huge difference in capacity issues. |
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. |