Harley Shaiken
Harley Shaiken
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I suspect they don't want to strike, but they could be pushed into a corner, and if that's the case they have considerable leverage,
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I think this case is, in fact, a watershed. I think what it does is -- in the most dramatic way we've seen to date -- it introduces the wages of the global economy into Main Street in Michigan, Ohio and elsewhere,
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Historically, GM has been the most tone-deaf of the auto companies when it comes to labor issues. But York is speaking plainly and directly about critical issues between GM and the UAW.
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The pain and surprise may come when Delphi wages are cut and it sets a pattern of pressing down on wages to succeed competitively, ... It reverses the success story of the American economy, which has always been that U.S. firms paid the most.
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GM is sending signals about its priorities. The 2007 negotiations are going to be tough.
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There are some very hard choices and no easy answers. This is a long way from over.
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There are so many fewer moral barriers to a bankruptcy of this scale.
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Whatever the final language, it will be the benchmark of how other negotiations are judged. Since the auto workers won pensions in '48, a lot of things Detroit has done, for good or for bad, has set a pattern. This will be the case, even if the rhetoric of lifetime jobs guarantees outstrip the language.
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There is more than one way out of this canyon they are in right now,
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Steve Miller has gone from a provocative after-dinner speaker to a negotiator. It's definitely a U-turn.
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They've got tough issues, but nobody wants to put the moneymaking on hold to sort it out.
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If you cut wages by two-thirds, that creates a class of people that can't afford to go to Wal-Marts. If other industries do this, America will have a far smaller middle class, and the whole economy in the 21st Century begins to unravel.
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He's taken a windy day and turned it into a hurricane. Labor is influential in Sacramento. On certain bills and issues, they are very influential. But they are one of many groups that can dominate.
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Health benefits have been at the top of the list for what unions have sought to hang on to. This reflects how serious union leaders feel this is.