Gregg Shotwell
Gregg Shotwell
abandon accept afraid betray hurt lower next older pay people seniority work workers
They want to pay the older seniority people to betray the lower seniority people and the workers in general. I'm afraid that if I accept this offer, I'm going to hurt the person I work next to because I'm going to abandon them.
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This is an underground movement. The people most involved in the work-to-rule campaign are not wearing buttons and distributing literature...It's the dog that doesn't bark that bites.
anxiety eventually human leave nature people relieve safety undermine
It's human nature to want to relieve anxiety. Some people will look at this as an escape. What I'm questioning is: Is there really safety in this? If you undermine the people that you leave behind, eventually they're going to be negotiating for us.
bad business faster fight hand hoped miller outrage plan response roll scare
I think Delphi had a business plan to go bankrupt, but it got out of hand and went faster than they wanted, and it's become very messy. Also, Miller was very cocky. He was very antagonistic, and thought he was going to roll over the UAW. And the UAW International probably hoped that we would scare us bad enough so that we would roll over for concessions. Instead, the UAW rank-and-file response has been outrage and a willingness to fight back.
maybe send
I made that sign. Maybe I should send him one.
alarming depended faith money pensions prefer
That was alarming because if my pensions depended on Delphi, I'd have no faith in it at all. We would prefer to have our money up front.
buy
This isn't a buyout, it's a buy off.
pensions struck trust
What struck me the most was he said he's going to try to keep Delphi pensions solvent. And I was struck that he would think that any of us would trust that.
reason save
We're just going to have to take them to the mat. There's no reason to take concessions. It doesn't save jobs.