Posted on 06/22/2007 1:22:46 PM PDT by SmithL
DETROIT, (AP) -- Struggling auto parts maker Delphi Corp. reached a tentative wage-cutting agreement Friday with its largest union in what may set the pattern for future pay in the U.S. automotive parts industry.
The deal, which still must be voted on by Delphi members of the United Auto Workers, was signed just before a 1 p.m. meeting between the UAW leadership and presidents of the union's locals.
Details of the agreement were not released, but Delphi said in a statement it's a "significant milestone" in the company's quest to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Union officials speaking on condition they not be identified by name earlier this week because the deal had not yet been completed said the pact would cut wages for longtime UAW workers from around $27 per hour to between $14 and $18.50.
Industry analysts say it could become a template for other parts suppliers.
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Good. Judging by the absolute crap that Delphi’s been making in the US, their workers are overpaid and underdelivering quality.
Back in the 90’s, the local Firestone Plant went on strike. I think Firestone had been bought out by Bridgestone by then. Bridgestone brought in replacement workers. Six months later the “strike” was still going on. The local paper did a sob story on a worker who was still striking. The union benefits were about to run out and he couldn’t find a job willing to pay him over $7.00 per hour. The reason he was striking? The plant wanted to cut wages from $17.00/hour to $14.50/hour. But he was rejecting that “because he couldn’t afford it.”
Hmmm...in the open labor market his skills are worth $7.00 per hour. He has an employer willing to pay double that. But he doesn’t want that. And the plant had plenty of replacement workers who did.
I saw all the idiocy of American unions neatly summarized in that story.
My union, in an attempt to show solidarity with the Firestone workers, decided to picket the local Firestone dealer because the manufacturing plant was too far away. They shut down the poor guy’s business for over two days, just because he’s selling, not manufacturing, Firestone products.
Like that guy was the only guy in town who sold tires? Did they think that all the business they drove to other tire stores would ever come back?
Morons.
Yep, pretty stupid. They wanted to shut down his business of selling Firestone tires, while supporting the union that manufactures them. Backwards logic.
And here is the game plan by the libs as stated by their original poster boy, Socialist, turned Democrat, Upton Sinclair....
Of his gubernatorial bids, Sinclair remarked in 1951: “The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to ‘End Poverty in California’(as a Democrat) I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.”[5]
Out flank them means this: Socialism is the goal. As you see today, Dems are writing economic laws using “the environment”, “your health”, and other such cons to penalize American business so they can not compete. In the case of the auto industry, their hope is that they all go bankrupt. They write laws that are impossible to meet (see the Energy Bill of 2007) so that there is no way for them to remain profitable. Add the union’s strong arm tactics and some automakers will never be profitable again. Soooo, when the companies go out of business the Statist Dems will come in and “save the day and all your jobs” by Nationalizing the Auto Industry. They already are actively pursuing Nationalizing the Health Care industry and your particular industry is next.
It is Socialism but by another name.... They will nationalize industries one at a time until we are the spitting image of a Socialized country without having the label ‘Socialized’... But that is what we’ll be and their plan is ingenious.
Upton Sinclair was right, Americans will never consider themselves “Socialists” but Dems will get us there under by enacting legislation destroying private property and industry and they’ll do it under the guise and such catch phrases as, “Helping your fellow man” and “Good for the country”.... Soon to add “it takes a village” to the mix.
And the wheels on the bus go round and round...round and round....
...as history will repeat itself again while our noble experiment here in America goes down in Fascist Flames.
And all of this done WILLINGLY by the people who can’t see 2 minutes into the future.
God help us....
I was always fascinated by the story of the killing of the goose that laid the golden eggs. How could people be so stupidly selfish and shortsighted? Yet, I guess it’s human nature.
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