I call it Outsourcing. "Delphi demands 63% pay cut from UAW"

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/delphi7e_20051007.htm

Business owners, Bush's best friends, are leading the way to the Company Store.

Three more years, and maybe then a new boss with the same friends.

[applegrove]

1. Those neocons love the crisis and the agenda they can push n/t

[Sadie5]

3. More GM lies

This has been on going for some time with GM threatening to do this or that. The bankruptcy deadline was looming over their heads which is why they have decided to act now. The workers originally at Delphi have already been placed or will be placed in other GM plants as positions become available. The workers which are being discussed now have union representation, but no health benefits. They must pay for those themselves. Gm does not furnish them, They are making about $16 per hour(new hires) and knew when they were hired that this might be a possibility, but with the job situation in 02 they were desperate for jobs. The article states some truths, but is full of fabrications in GMs favor. Either way it goes, Delphi has made it known that they are going to China as cheap parts are the ultimate goal. GM informed the Union a few years ago of their decision to cut the 25,000 or so jobs in the auto plants. Those will be covered by buy outs, retirements and placement in other facilities.

[madrchsod]

9. no health care is offered or

the company offers health care but the workers have to pay for it out of payroll deductions?

[kcass1954]

2. And just how much of a cut is this man willing to take?!?

Delphi Chief Executive Robert S. (Steve) Miller

[hippiechick]

4. No shit.

Slice off the top 5 Delphi Execs and their golden parachutes, and you'll have more than enough money to cover pensions, healthcare and probably COLA raises for existing employees, too.

Bastards. I HATE executives. Greedy Fucks. :nuke:

[Sadie5]

6. Not a penny

will he likely give up to help others. All those workers at GM plants who voted for Bush are now getting exactly what they voted for.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. I also call it Union-Busting.

Perhaps the Chinese are their new market? As the article states, line workers won't be able to afford the product they make.

[Missy M]

7. How can you demand a 63% pay cut from anyone....

that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. On top of that they are asking them to pay 27% of health care costs instead of the 7% they are paying now. The workers might as well be working at McDonald's for what they would be earning. The corporations are trying to break the backs of middle class Americans. I guess we are on our way to being a third world country.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. This is precedent-setting. Watch the copycats if they succeed.

Just like "Intelligent Design" battering its way up the court systems. All they need is a single "yes" and the snowball begins rolling downhill. Not that they'd stack the courts to ahem, allow such a "yes" to occur, to please and cement the loyalty one part of their very active base.

These are trends and agendas. If you look at the entire BushCo behaviour so far, there is letting things break to install their own money-making apparatus, making things break to install their money-making apparatus, and this is just more of making things break to get what they want... Cheap labor and maximum profit for the select few.

The future consists of financial corporate ownership, with an ultrachristian societal superstructure.

Think it can't happen? Look at the trends and see them as long-term agendas. BushCo stole two elections and emptied the US Treasury; there is more to come. It can't happen suddenly, people bite if you tighten the leash too quickly. Do it slowly so that people don't notice, and they'll adapt, because there is no single horrifying incident to rebel against, to unify against.

And people voted for friends of Enron...

[GrantDem]

8. All the while

attempting to justify raises and bonuses for the top executives.

scum.... Say goodbye to more U.S. jobs.