Posted on 03/31/2006 6:44:15 AM PST by Mikey_1962
DETROIT | Bankrupt supplier Delphi Corp. has identified 14 U.S. factories it will shed as part of its reorganization in another sign of how bloody the restructuring of the nation's largest auto parts maker is turning out to be.
The Troy, Mich.-based parts maker — now with 28 U.S. plants and 33,000 hourly workers — intends to close all but four of 18 factories represented by the United Auto Workers after it emerges from bankruptcy, according to a UAW letter distributed this week to workers in Oak Creek, Wis.. Contents of the letter were confirmed by other local union officials briefed on the plans by UAW's top leadership.
Details of the company's downsizing plans are emerging as Delphi prepares to file a court motion today that will begin the process of undoing its union contracts. The motion could push the company's unions closer to a strike that could ravage both the supplier and General Motors Corp., its largest customer.
The UAW plants expected to survive — located in Grand Rapids; Kokomo, Ind.; and Rochester and Lockport, N.Y. — suggest Delphi sees a future in building automotive electronics and fuel systems in this country, but not spark plugs or catalytic converters.
The rest of the 18 UAW plants will be closed, consolidated or sold. But it is still unclear what would happen to its 10 non-UAW factories.
Workers at the Delphi plant at 3100 Needmore Road in Dayton are represented by the UAW. Workers at the other Dayton-area sites are not represented by the UAW.
Both the factory-closing plan and Delphi's move to overhaul its labor contracts are central to Delphi's goal of emerging from bankruptcy by next year. Delphi, which filed for bankruptcy in October, has made no secret of its intention to reduce it U.S. labor costs.
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Good opportunity for other Teir 1 suppliers to cherry pick the good jobs.
Wow - now that sends a message.
What's bad for the UAW is good for America.
How apropos.......
Good riddance. Less UAW votes for Dems.
Security + replacements should be a fraction of the cost of the current Stalinist cabal they call employees.
Doesn't this further prove that the leaders of the UAE government, which owns and controls Delphi, are spoiled children, who want to take their ball and go home because they didn't always get what they want.
We work for...
The Union label
Well we used to
But not no more...
An expected and needed reorganization.
It ties with the changes happening at GM.
Bankrupt supplier Delphi Corp. has identified 14 U.S. factories it will shed as part of its reorganization
I'm sorry for the workers...But My car has a Delphi sterio in it and it is a piece of crap. It is a 2005 Ford mustang GT and the sterio skips ,and locks up..and I have replaced it once already.
Delphi sterios are Garbage...before you buy any Car ask who made the sterio.
Those jobs will be created offshore as more automotive components will be imported.
Our Japanese are better than their Chinese.
We are looking at a few assemblies to be made here in Ohio.
UAE, or UAW?
Didn't Al Bore's mom used to sing him to sleep with that song?
When I was in college I worked for Delphi in Warren, OH. It was a good internship, but all of us student got laid off early because it was the summer of the big GM strike. I got screwed by a bunch of GED-armed button pushers who wanted $70K/year. One guy I knew insisted on a microwave being installed in his million dollar plastic extruder, so he could cook popcorn without having to leave.
My husband is a Delphi salaried retiree, but is now a contract employee for them because they've had too many young salaried employees quit and needed him. Today he drove our junk pickup to work because he thinks the union workers will get nasty.
I apologize, I got the two names confused.
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