OK, So We Really Are Fucked...
At least that's what I got from the informational meeting yesterday. It seems as though the union is saying "We've done the best we could", and really, they probably have. Donny also makes a good point that a strike is a "murder-suicide", and it truly is. I don't believe a strike is really going to happen now, and whether it should or shouldn't happen has become irrelevant. The company only wants about 1000 people here, and they're going to get that number, one way or another.
So, what do we do now, you ask? Prepare as best you can for what's on the horizon. Personally, I'm at the point that I don't believe I have a shot in hell to keep my job (guess that's what I get for complaining, huh?). I am facing the fact that I'm going to be unemployed and it really sucks balls. I'm going to have to try to find something that pays decently enough to keep things rolling until I go to school next fall. Hey, maybe I'll get to fulfill all of those college co-ed fantasies!!! WOO HOO!!! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! Huh? What's that honey? OK, no 'Girls Gone Wild' videoes for me, I guess. Shoot.
The most important thing is to try to keep a positive (HA!) attitude about the whole thing. And your sense of humor, assuming that you already have one. If you don't, I'd suggest getting one ASAP, because you're going to need it.
Sigh...
Dawn
So, what do we do now, you ask? Prepare as best you can for what's on the horizon. Personally, I'm at the point that I don't believe I have a shot in hell to keep my job (guess that's what I get for complaining, huh?). I am facing the fact that I'm going to be unemployed and it really sucks balls. I'm going to have to try to find something that pays decently enough to keep things rolling until I go to school next fall. Hey, maybe I'll get to fulfill all of those college co-ed fantasies!!! WOO HOO!!! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! Huh? What's that honey? OK, no 'Girls Gone Wild' videoes for me, I guess. Shoot.
The most important thing is to try to keep a positive (HA!) attitude about the whole thing. And your sense of humor, assuming that you already have one. If you don't, I'd suggest getting one ASAP, because you're going to need it.
Sigh...
Dawn
posted by Spencemo @ 3:02 PM
3 Comments:
At 7/04/2006 11:14 AM,
Anonymous said…
This is a question that was answered on UAW Local 1097's web site (Rumor Roundup):
Now that Delphi has filed to break our contract, when does the GM guarantee for retiree pensions and health care kick in?
The guarantee kicks in when one of the following occurs:
1. Delphi terminates the hourly UAW pension plan.
2. Delphi freezes the pension plan (no more credited service).
3. Delphi stops funding retiree health care or life insurance.
4. Delphi fails to pay the pension amounts retirees are due." Apr. 06, 2006
This is not what Don Arbogast stated at the Informational Meetings. He said that just by Delphi filing Bankruptcy triggers the Pension Guarantee. The IUE is just waiting until Oct. of 2007 to trigger it, so that more people can be included.
Who is lying, the IUE or the UAW?
After Arbogast told this membership in both meeting about the Pension Guarantee, I was thinking of staying. NOT NOW.
It is a shame that we can not receive the TRUTH from anyone.
At 7/05/2006 9:01 AM,
Anonymous said…
The truth, becoming a very furtive commodity at Delphi, seems to have been set aside in favor of the shop floor rumor mill, as always. "Let them eat each other alive", I feel is the management sentiment. Don's attitude at the meeting was akin to, well, we got you something (money)when they could simply close the doors and give you nothing. I don't like to be put in a position to gamble, and that's what they're doing. Hey, I'll play the lottery occassionally if I want to gamble. I am NOT willing to put my spouse, children, and house on the line. No word on what happens to those "lucky" enough to stay...hey, that's confidential, bro.
This is a force out, not a buyout. It would be sad if it weren't for the reality of Delphi AND union incompetance. This is how a lot of us feel. The Company doesn't deal in feelings, they deal with their bottom line. That's the reality. Disgusting, yes. Criminal, not in today's America. Look all around you. These jobs are vanishing faster than a union subchairman after an election.
So, in closing, what kind of hell will we be walking into on the 17th? Anything but dull from here on out (the door). Good luck to all, I think I'm taking the cash.
SMALL Starbucks, please...
At 7/06/2006 10:37 AM,
Spencemo said…
Well, unfortunately, I think I'm taking the cash, too. Doesn't look like I'm going to have much of a choice about it, really. And, as far as what I read in all of the coverage of the attrition agreement, the pension money comes from Delphi, and the health care and life insurance comes from GM anyway. I could be wrong, though.
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