UAW jobs in peril; fear grows at Delphi (DetFP)

[Bozita]

Headline article, frontpage, above the fold.


http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/delphi9e_20050609.htm

UAW jobs in peril; fear grows at Delphi


Worried union leaders meet today

June 9, 2005


BY JEFFREY McCRACKEN
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER



The ongoing angst at Delphi Corp., the country's largest auto-parts maker, and the equally troubling times at General Motors Corp., which this week said it will eliminate 25,000 manufacturing jobs, are bringing UAW plant officials from across the country to Detroit today.


Their likely focus will be how and whether the UAW can help Delphi, either by allowing for more buyouts of Delphi-UAW workers, allowing for more Delphi workers to return to former parent company GM, or allowing Delphi to more quickly sell off certain money-losing plants, say three union officials who spoke to the Free Press.


One UAW official who asked to remain unnamed said a priority at this meeting will be the Delphi plants the Troy-based parts supplier has singled out as unprofitable and pushed into a separate entity that Delphi calls Automotive Holdings Group. That business unit includes 11 plants, seven of which have UAW workers. The UAW represents 7,000 of the 11,100 union workers at the 11 plants, according to Delphi.


"We need to do something for the people at those plants if Delphi wants to sell or close them," said the UAW official.

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[Conservativesux]

1. And its only going to get worse as * runs this country into the ground

[Massachusetts]

2. "sell off certain money-losing plants"

They would be VIABLE, PROFITABLE, JOB PRODUCING if OUR government was dedicated to ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES.

WE HAVE TO CROSS OVER THE NEXT THRESHHOLD NOW, IN ORDER TO SURVIVE AS A SOCIETY (SERIOUS INTRODUCTION OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY).

OUR GOVERNMENT IS THE KEEPER AND INVESTOR OF OUR MONEY(TAXES), THEY HAVE TO LEAD THE WAY.

WHERE IS THE LEADERSHIP? JANE AND JOE BLUE COLLAR SHOULD BE UP IN ARMS.WHY AREN'T THEY???????? IMHO

[Bozita]

3. kick