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 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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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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I think it would probably be presumptuous for anybody to suggest there is going to be a strike at Delphi,
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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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We're all hopeful we'll find an answer to the issues,
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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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This situation in Flint is a dramatic example of GM's 'America last' strategy, in which the corporation is attempting to radically downsize its American work force in favor of exploiting less-than-poverty level wages in other countries,
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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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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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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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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,