High school graduates who were paid $27/hr. with fat benefits could not compete with Chinese workers getting $.50/hr. with no benefits. Anyone with a brain could see this could not last. Delphi will shut down, and then there will be no jobs and no health benefits and pensions will be foisted off on the US taxpayers through the federal pension guarantee. Of course, the pensioners will get only half what Delpi was giving them. GM will soon follow suit. Totally unrealistic union contracts killed the US auto industry, just as my sainted father predicted long ago.
There are so many anti working class idiots here. Would you work for $12 an hour? Lets get real here.
The days of high priced labor are over in a world where labor can be had for 30 cents an hour in Asia. Watch these jobs move to China just as fast as Delphi can manage it.
"there are 380,000 union workers in the state of Indiana who will march in this battle with you"
There may be 380,000 union workers in Indiana but they all will not march with you. That is from an Indiana union worker.
"Even the reality of bankruptcy is not enough to make the UAW realize that it's killing its own industry and destroying jobs."
Ohhh, but unions are good...oh, my skill is worth that much..oh, unions took the poor children out of the factories and coal mines, oooh--unions are good for the workers........
Im not usually a Big Union supporter but this is wrong! They will me 160$ more a week than a full time fry cook!
Normally I would agree (like the NorthWest Mechanics who would not go from 37$ an hour to 23$ an hour) but what do you expect them to do when they are going to pay people little more than they would make a wall mart greeting people...