if this is their attitude, then Delphi deserves what it gets...

[Blue_Tires]

the beginning of the end of the domestic auto industry
sorry i don't have a link

From the Oct. 17 Wall Street Journal:

1) From an interview with Steve Miller, Delphi's CEO: "And Ron Gettlefinger (UAW President), I wouldn't want to be in his shoes for all the tea in China. He's going to have to help half a million workers get used to the idea that globalization has taken away the ability to have someone who mows the lawn or sweeps the floor to get $65/hr (including health and retirement benefits)"

2) An article titled "Why Delphi's Asia Operations are Booming:" "He (Choon T. Chon, Delphi's VP of Asian Pacific Operations) has been explaining the bankruptcy filing of the U.S. operations to his staff and customers by likening Delphi's Asian operations to the children of a sick American mother. "Our mother has a tumor. This tumor is the UAW," he says, referring to the powerful United Auto Workers union that represents 25,000 Delphi workers and 10,000 retirees...."We know hat she's going to come out of the hospital very well," he says, referring to the U.S. company's Chapter 11 status.

[DefenseLawyer]

1. They will be just great

'til no one can afford to buy new cars anymore.

[1932]

5. And it's not as if the Asian workers are going to be content with low wage

jobs forever. When they see the profits Delphi makes from them, they're going to strike and demand higher wages. And with their higher wages they're going to use their political power to ask their government for health care and good schools, which Delphi is going to help pay for with their taxes.

How long before there are no more cheap sources of labor, and why do we have to wait for that?

Maybe this is the real reason Bush doesn't really want to help Africa. Maybe they're keeping Africa in the wings for when Asian labor starts getting paid what they''re worth.

[mestup]

2. "globalization has taken away..." No, corporate GREED has done this!

[GetTheRightVote]

3. While they steal our ability to survive here in our own country

countries like China, India, and Japan suck the blood out of our economy. What is more anti-American then this, greed of coporations is destoring us.

:kick:

[Jose Diablo]

4. It's not the worker like they say

It's their own inability to build what the consumer wants and needs. That's always been the problem. All their talk about 'overpaid' workers is just a smoke screen to hide their own malfeasance and misfeasance.

I question why the stockholders continue to vote them in. There is the problem. There is little stockholder oversight of these store clerks. They have their hands in the till with an absentee owner. Have any of you ever voted or been allowed to vote any company issues with your ownership position in Mutual Funds? No.

All these guys are in a closed club using corporate funds to purchase and control each others companies by having voting control of the pension funds.

Therefore, our economic livelihood is depended on these store clerks. It's no wonder our country cannot compete in the world. They are not 'captains' in industry. They are store clerks with their fingers in the cash register.

[conflictgirl]

6. Yeah, I'm sure corporate salaries have nothing to do with the problem! nt

nt

[Blue_Tires]

7. ttt n/t

[stevietheman]

8. The American people should destroy Delphi and GM for this

It's certainly time for a massive boycott... one that is intended to destroy all of GM. If they are going to shit on their employees this way, then they don't have a right to exist as a corporation any longer, in my humble opinion.

And if they think that a worldwide labor movement isn't going to spring up before long, they and any other corporation trying to pull this shit are in for a major rude awakening.

A company can only shit on its people for so long until there's an uprising.