Ron Gettelfinger
Ron Gettelfinger
Ronald A. "Ron"Gettelfinger was the president of the United Auto Workers from 2002 to 2010...
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To try to come up with a time frame on where we're headed would be unfair. We're still waiting on the report back from our financial advisers,
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Unfortunately, this is not the first time that the UAW has had to deal with a court-ordered corporate restructuring, and we will vigorously use our experience, expertise, and resources to represent the interests of UAW workers.
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At General Motors, it is going to have to be all in.
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This isn't a regional issue because the Big Three employ advertising, design, engineering, manufacturing, sales and service workers all over the country. The failure of any one of these companies would be a disaster.
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Subject to acceptable resolution of outstanding issues and satisfactory finalization of contractual language, the UAW GM National Negotiating Committee, the UAW National GM Council, and the UAW Retired Workers Advisory Council have unanimously endorsed this tentative agreement,
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Delphi 's misuse of the bankruptcy procedure to circumvent the collective bargaining process and slash jobs and wages and drastically reduce healthcare, retirement, and other hard-won benefits or eliminate them altogether is a travesty and a concern for every American.
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Delphi's contract proposal was not designed to be a framework for an agreement but a road map for confrontation,
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Northwest Airlines' behavior toward AMFA is blatant union- busting and an insult to every American worker, ... The UAW is proud to offer this support to AMFA members.
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This is a major move on our part, and it's very difficult and very challenging, ... These are the times in which we find ourselves. We're not hiding from our responsibilities.
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I think we're making a mistake if we think in the case of General Motors that health care is the biggest problem that they've got.
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His statements fly in the face of everything these workers stand for,
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People who live in gated communities in this country need to think about where we're headed,
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has focused squarely on issues and on doing what's in the best interests of workers and their families, refusing to be drawn into divisive personal squabbles.
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He himself (Miller) got a $3 million signing bonus, he gets a $1.5 million salary, he gets $4 million at the end, ... And then you talk about what you want to force down the throat of people who are working for a living.