Richard Shoemaker
Richard Shoemaker
Richard Shoemaker is a former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate...
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If the court rejects our agreement and Delphi imposes its last proposal, it will probably be impossible to avoid a long strike.
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He (Miller) would do well to let the people at GM run General Motors and focus on whatever the hell it is he's supposed to be doing with Delphi,
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We're obviously very pleased to have yet another Nobel Prize awarded to someone in our department.
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We have said consistently that the only basis of finding satisfactory resolution to these matters is through the use of the collective bargaining process with Delphi, GM and the UAW at the bargaining table.
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We're all hopeful we'll find an answer to the issues,
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We hope the company's announcement results in meaningful change in its position, but only time will tell if that is the case.
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Whether it be in the trade union movement or the captains of industry, the vision that we have for America ought to be for a better America.
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It would be presumptuous for anyone at this stage to suggest that is, or is not, what's going to happen. But it certainly is one of the options that is available,
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If you don't have a spouse that has health insurance or is covered some other way, you need to think long and hard about taking the buyout. You can go through $140,000 with amazing quickness.
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But it's even more presumptuous for (Miller) and others to suggest there will be no strike at Delphi.
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I've been the one who's been at the table. We don't have a tentative agreement.
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it wouldn't put any additional pressure on them.
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A contract adhered to by only one side is one that is no contract at all. ... They're also ignoring their social contract with America by transferring jobs to China Thailand and Mexico.
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It ought to be a vision of how we make life better for those people that live here, not a vision for dismantling the manufacturing base and taking the quality of life that we've known and enjoyed down to that of a Third World country.