Harley Shaiken
Harley Shaiken
case pushed suspect
I suspect they don't want to strike, but they could be pushed into a corner, and if that's the case they have considerable leverage,
dig felt hard instead line message send sent suspect taking
I suspect they felt that taking a very hard line would send a message to the union. Instead the message that they sent was to dig in your heels.
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The corporation knows the sensitivity of these kinds of issues, they have a lot of experience with what will provoke a local strike. What I suspect they (the GM management) didn't anticipate is that it would reach this intensity.
currently wages
Delphi has essentially said: 'We need competitive wages.' Those wages currently are being set in China, not Flint, (Michigan).
blink determined northwest resources strategy
They have a very determined strategy and they are plunking a lot of resources into this. Northwest is not going to blink at this point.
educated job route unclear
It's unclear if it's a route to a better job or to a more educated unemployment.
gm pushing sign tension
It's another sign of the tension that is enflaming this strike. GM is just pushing the UAW here, tweaking them.
gm pushing sign tension
It's another sign of the tension that is enflaming this strike, ... GM is just pushing the UAW here, tweaking them.
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You've got the pressures of the global economy, fierce competition in deregulated industries like airlines and powerful anti-union employers like Wal-Mart.
afloat boat given protect upright
The CAW, given the context, has done very well. The boat is afloat and upright after going through the rapids. They wanted to protect their members.
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Miller has clearly chosen bankruptcy over collective bargaining to restructure the company. Delphi is using a bankruptcy judge to begin moving in the direction of Chinese wages and benefits.
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The global economy has become a blast furnace that seeks to eliminate many of the gains that steelworkers have won over the years.
closing impact overall plant somewhere traumatic
For a plant closing of this magnitude, the overall impact is somewhere between traumatic and devastating.
bankruptcy leverage moment saying
Because they (Delphi) have considerable leverage at a moment of bankruptcy is not the same as saying the UAW is out of the game.