Richard Shoemaker
Richard Shoemaker
Richard Shoemaker is a former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate...
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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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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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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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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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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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No one can have a tentative agreement without us being a part of it,
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I'd be shocked if it was done by this weekend.
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Should this happen, the UAW's only alternative would be to accept the offer or strike.
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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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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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We will concentrate on resolving the issues at Saturn in the near future, ... We're hopeful we can do that without confrontation. Only time will tell whether or not we're successful.