Posted on 10/27/2005 2:36:49 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
The fruits of free traitors.
Delphi (old Delco) will soon be a distribution warehouse for parts manufactured in Southeast Asia.
Why would she be "stunned"? The company is simply saying to its workers that if they won't work for ?9/hr., it will simply hire illegals who will be happy to do so at a time when the government could care less about enforcing immigration laws.
Stabanow ping.
Failure to concede to the demands of organized labor has done nothing for this country but bring on the era of soaring unemployment and negative economic growth that we see today! Next you'll be advocating that the government no longer dictate prices OR wages.....fascist!
All one need do is look at the trade rags from the 80's and 90's.
You will see something mentioned over and over, something called "good debt".
Corporations were sold on the idea. And if they tank now, is it their fault, or the bloodsuckers that were there at every turn to offer them credit?
We have all been sold a bill of goods that is fraudulent. Medicare, Social Security, Company pensions, even health care for military veterans has ended up being a screw job.
Because SOMEONE, is making bets about how these assets will perform in the future.
Luv it!
If the Dow was to go to 36,000 tomorrow, all you'd hear is how great it was! What they wouldn't say is how a dollar of you money yesterday would buy one share, and now it will only buy 1/4 a share...
Even if honesty could buy love, perhaps none of us would be happy.
It's called negotiation Sen. Stab-me-now. The auto industry should have come to their senses and taken a harder negotiating line over the last 40 years. Then there might have been something left on the carcass for the union vultures.
The American consumer is first a wage earner. It won't matter how low prices are if the average wage allows nothing but subsistence on beans.
Delphi is/was certainly uncompetitive, but repudiation of contract disturbs me. I guess that this is legal (in certain circumstances) in the US? It seems to make it too easy for management to walk away from their mistakes.
Well, you could call - Threat of firing - extortion also...
It is unconscienable for the courts to void or impose new contracts.
The folks being screwed by the new contracts have no recourse.
We are all well familiar with how many times the courts actually come to defend the little guy.
Nine bucks an hour? Christ, man, people who come across the border, huddle twelve to a van, and fix lawns make more than that!!
Coming from a large Union town, with a few thousand Delphi employees, I can tell you that Delphi workers have taken advantage of Delco/Delphi for years, with the UAW covering for them all the way. I could tell so many stories of my own family members who leave work early every day, show up at work drunk, or only work an hour or two of thier shift when they are there, and they can't be touched because of the UAW. They always demand more money and benefits, but want to work less, and then can't understand when the company they've helped ruin goes under. The company I work for may be non-union, and I may make $10 an hour less than Delphi, but at least I still have a job.
What part of bankruptcy do these people not understand? $9.50 an hour sure is better than a pink slip.
Besides, the Michigan democrat should be happy to Delphi end its health care plan- that gives her another excuse to nationalize health care.
I should also inform you that many of the forum's readers, don't recognize sarcasm....
We've learned to use the < sarcasm> to assure readers when we're being sarcastic..
Semper Fi
My father in law is losing his job December 23 of this year. He has been with the company 6 years. For 3 and a half years the company was nonunion the employees were well treated received raises etc. Because of where the company is located it had to be union. The employees were told by the owner if they went union he would have to close the plant. Now 2 and a half years later the plant is closing and moving back to japan. The owner met all his contract obligations to his customers and is going home.
The union here is so greedy that the owner can not even open up a new business here in Ohio without the union being in the plant.
Now my father in law has to start over again at 60 years of age, oh he lost his last job 7 years ago because of the union at that plant, and the job before that do to the union. He did not vote for the union but he still got screwed by the union.
What Delphi, or Delco, or GM, pays for work is none of Ms. Stabenow's business, and it's none of her business BECAUSE there is nothing she can or should do about it.
She creates nothing, produces nothing, distributes nothing, and buys nothing more than any other Michigan citizen.
She should STFU.
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