Delphi's demand: Take $9 an hour (headline in Det Free Press) [View All]

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Delphi's demand: Take $9 an hour


Health care, pension trims also planned

October 26, 2005


BY JASON ROBERSON and MICHAEL ELLIS
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITERS


If Delphi Corp. has its way, workers for the nation's largest auto parts supplier would be paid as little as $9 per hour under 65% wage cuts, and be hit with a tenfold increase in health-care costs, no dental and vision care and other sharp reductions in benefits, according to a proposal revealed on the Web site of a UAW local.


The document shows for the first time the severity of the cuts the bankrupt company has told the union it needs to survive.


The cuts are even stiffer than the company's final proposal to the union before it filed for Chapter 11 on Oct. 8, further infuriating workers already angered by the threats to their livelihood.


"How in the hell do they expect anybody to live?" asked Andy Loughran, a 54-year-old Delphi worker from Dayton, Ohio. "You think you're going to get a good quality product at $9 an hour?"

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