Richard Shoemaker
Richard Shoemaker
Richard Shoemaker is a former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate...
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We'd all like to bring them to a conclusion sooner rather than later, ... But precisely when we're going to be able to do that is anybody's guess.
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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.
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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 urge the company to spend more time on negotiations and less on public posturing,
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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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Strikes are part of the collective bargaining process in normal times, and they certainly end up as a part of this process,
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I think it's unfortunate that they've decided to look at other options that are available to them, but of course everybody has the right to do those things,
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I think it's unfair to raise people's hopes that there might be a settlement in sight if you don't believe that, and I don't happen to believe that's the case.
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GM's claim that they are committed to investing in their American operations is belied by their actions. They continually threaten our locals with being sold or outsourced out of existence,
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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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But it's even more presumptuous for (Miller) and others to suggest there will be no strike at Delphi.