Ohhhhhh Shit...
I know that we're all paying really close attention to the news right now (I know I am). Here's the skinny from the Tribune Comical.
Delphi Packard at risk without union deal
By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle
WARREN (Updated 1:30 p.m., Sept. 28) - Delphi Corp. attorneys indicated today the bankrupt company may move Warren-based Delphi Packard Electric from a core facility to non-core making it vulnerable to being sold or closed if no labor agreement can be reached with the local union, a labor lawyer said.
Tom Kennedy, attorney for the International Union of Electrical Workers-Communications Workers of America who was at a status conference in New York, also said the auto parts maker indicated it might file motions at a bankruptcy conference set for Oct. 19 to scrap its labor agreement and modify retiree health care only at the Warren operations.
Delphi spokesman Lindsey Williams said the company ''continues to have constructive dialogue with all unions. However, there are challenges that must be addressed with the IUE leadership in Warren if that site is to remain viable and core.''
Williams declined to elaborate on the challenges.
Also Thursday, bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain extended the deadline for issuing an order of Delphi's current motion to throw out its labor pacts and modify retiree health care until Nov. 30 from Oct. 20.
Kennedy said he told the judge that the union was ''very disturbed'' to hear that the union's largest remaining facility could be moved to non-core.
He said the local union is ''working very diligently to try to come up with an agreement with the company.''
IUE-CWA Local 717 Shop Chairman Don Arbogast said he sent Delphi a letter a month ago stating the union was ''willing to have talks any time, any place. I'm still waiting to find out where that place is.''
Willie Thorpe, chairman of the IUE-CWA Automotive Conference Board, said Delphi Packard wants to add 150 to 200 more temporary workers to the 300 it's already scheduled to hire.
The temporary workers would fill jobs of employees who elected to take recent incentives to retire or quit and allow those workers to be trained for new positions within Delphi Packard.
Only 710 out of Local 717's 3,800 total membership chose to stay with the company, which has said it wants 1,033 hourly workers.
Thorpe said more talks could be held next week in Troy, Mich., although no dates have been set.
Seeing Delphi Packard's Warren operations one of eight locations Delphi deemed core to its future moved to non-core would be ''serious trouble'' for the union, Thorpe said. ''We have a lot of work to do.''
Well, there's a fucking understatement. Thanks, Willie.
Chances are pretty good that this is just the latest level of the ongoing 'Who's got the biggest Johnson' contest, only this time, the prize isn't just weenie bragging rights. It's the future of the entire Warren operations. A little too steep, if you ask me.
This just puts everyone back into 'Hang on to your ass' mode once again. Hell, I think I'm used to it by now. Bleh...
Well my peeps, smoke 'em if you've got 'em...
Dawn
Delphi Packard at risk without union deal
By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle
WARREN (Updated 1:30 p.m., Sept. 28) - Delphi Corp. attorneys indicated today the bankrupt company may move Warren-based Delphi Packard Electric from a core facility to non-core making it vulnerable to being sold or closed if no labor agreement can be reached with the local union, a labor lawyer said.
Tom Kennedy, attorney for the International Union of Electrical Workers-Communications Workers of America who was at a status conference in New York, also said the auto parts maker indicated it might file motions at a bankruptcy conference set for Oct. 19 to scrap its labor agreement and modify retiree health care only at the Warren operations.
Delphi spokesman Lindsey Williams said the company ''continues to have constructive dialogue with all unions. However, there are challenges that must be addressed with the IUE leadership in Warren if that site is to remain viable and core.''
Williams declined to elaborate on the challenges.
Also Thursday, bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain extended the deadline for issuing an order of Delphi's current motion to throw out its labor pacts and modify retiree health care until Nov. 30 from Oct. 20.
Kennedy said he told the judge that the union was ''very disturbed'' to hear that the union's largest remaining facility could be moved to non-core.
He said the local union is ''working very diligently to try to come up with an agreement with the company.''
IUE-CWA Local 717 Shop Chairman Don Arbogast said he sent Delphi a letter a month ago stating the union was ''willing to have talks any time, any place. I'm still waiting to find out where that place is.''
Willie Thorpe, chairman of the IUE-CWA Automotive Conference Board, said Delphi Packard wants to add 150 to 200 more temporary workers to the 300 it's already scheduled to hire.
The temporary workers would fill jobs of employees who elected to take recent incentives to retire or quit and allow those workers to be trained for new positions within Delphi Packard.
Only 710 out of Local 717's 3,800 total membership chose to stay with the company, which has said it wants 1,033 hourly workers.
Thorpe said more talks could be held next week in Troy, Mich., although no dates have been set.
Seeing Delphi Packard's Warren operations one of eight locations Delphi deemed core to its future moved to non-core would be ''serious trouble'' for the union, Thorpe said. ''We have a lot of work to do.''
Well, there's a fucking understatement. Thanks, Willie.
Chances are pretty good that this is just the latest level of the ongoing 'Who's got the biggest Johnson' contest, only this time, the prize isn't just weenie bragging rights. It's the future of the entire Warren operations. A little too steep, if you ask me.
This just puts everyone back into 'Hang on to your ass' mode once again. Hell, I think I'm used to it by now. Bleh...
Well my peeps, smoke 'em if you've got 'em...
Dawn
posted by Spencemo @ 8:17 PM
4 Comments:
At 9/29/2006 12:21 PM,
Anonymous said…
Oh Shit is right!!! Do the folks who chose to stay at Delphi know for certain that their best interests are in the actions of 717 bargainers? Someone who chose to stay better assemble a coalition to challenge the behavior of the lame duck bargainers.....the concern should be, How can my long term future be determined by a representative who is a short-timer?
At 9/29/2006 5:47 PM,
Spencemo said…
I'm willing to bet that no one knows anything for sure right now.
At 10/04/2006 6:32 PM,
Anonymous said…
I caught a glimpse of 10 of 12 Temps being oriented Monday in 15/PM Turn. 2 of them never even showed up. Delphi and the Tribune can't keep oozing out their crap about people being lined up for $10.00/hr jobs. $10.00/hr isn't all that.
At 10/04/2006 10:42 PM,
Anonymous said…
Them temps dont look too bright. I heard some already quit. Thats funny. But we already have a bunch of lazy people.
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