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05-03-2006, 03:01 PM
Automotive News Breaking News Alert
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>May 3, 2006
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>From the newsroom of Automotive News
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>UAW wants strike authorization at Delphi
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>The UAW plans to ask its 24,000 members at Delphi Corp. to authorize a
>strike.
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>UAW Vice President Richard Shoemaker gave the go-ahead Wednesday when
>he met in Detroit with UAW local presidents and other officials on the
>union’s Delphi council.
>
>The locals, representing workers at about 20 Delphi plants, have until
>May
>14 to conduct the votes, said UAW spokesman Paul Krell. The
>authorization would give the international union the ability to strike
>Delphi if it cannot reach agreement on wage and benefit concessions of
>60 percent that Delphi is demanding.
>
>A union official who attended the UAW council meetings Tuesday said
>Shoemaker, who is head of the General Motors and Delphi departments,
>painted a pessimistic picture that a negotiated settlement with Delphi
>could be reached before the end of June. He declined to be named.
>
>Delphi, which put its U.S. operations in Chapter 11 bankruptcy
>protection in October, has petitioned the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New
>York to terminate its labor agreements with its six unions, including
>the UAW. The first hearing on the matter is scheduled for May 9.
>
>The UAW has said that it will strike if the court terminates the
>agreements. GM is trying to help resolve the dispute by offering
>buyouts to its 113,000 UAW workers and paying for the buyout of up to
>13,000 Delphi workers. Another 5,000 Delphi workers could flow back to
>GM, Delphi's former parent.
>
>Delphi's second-largest union, the IUE-CWA, saw its 8,500 Delphi
>members approve a strike-authorization vote earlier this year. Before a
>strike is approved, members of the electronics union will be polled
>again for approval.
>
>The union official said Shoemaker informed the local presidents that
>12,000 GM workers had signed up for the buyout since the automaker
>began offering them in April. The new deadline for taking the buyout is
>June 23, with workers having an additional seven days to change their
>minds and rescind the buyout.
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>GM intends to cut its hourly U.S. work force by 30,000 by 2008. GM
>spokeswoman Katie McBride declined to confirm the 12,000 buyout figure
>announced by Shoemaker.
>
>The buyout packages range from a lump-sum payment of $35,000 to coax
>hourly workers with 30 years' seniority to retire to a lump sum of
>$140,000 for workers with more than 10 years' seniority but less than
>27 years who are willing to give up rights to post-retirement health
>care and other benefits.
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>May 3, 2006
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>From the newsroom of Automotive News
>
>Click on a headline to open a new browser window and read the story.
>
>[REG] Registrants
>[SUB] Subscribers only
>
>
>
>UAW wants strike authorization at Delphi
>
>The UAW plans to ask its 24,000 members at Delphi Corp. to authorize a
>strike.
>
>UAW Vice President Richard Shoemaker gave the go-ahead Wednesday when
>he met in Detroit with UAW local presidents and other officials on the
>union’s Delphi council.
>
>The locals, representing workers at about 20 Delphi plants, have until
>May
>14 to conduct the votes, said UAW spokesman Paul Krell. The
>authorization would give the international union the ability to strike
>Delphi if it cannot reach agreement on wage and benefit concessions of
>60 percent that Delphi is demanding.
>
>A union official who attended the UAW council meetings Tuesday said
>Shoemaker, who is head of the General Motors and Delphi departments,
>painted a pessimistic picture that a negotiated settlement with Delphi
>could be reached before the end of June. He declined to be named.
>
>Delphi, which put its U.S. operations in Chapter 11 bankruptcy
>protection in October, has petitioned the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New
>York to terminate its labor agreements with its six unions, including
>the UAW. The first hearing on the matter is scheduled for May 9.
>
>The UAW has said that it will strike if the court terminates the
>agreements. GM is trying to help resolve the dispute by offering
>buyouts to its 113,000 UAW workers and paying for the buyout of up to
>13,000 Delphi workers. Another 5,000 Delphi workers could flow back to
>GM, Delphi's former parent.
>
>Delphi's second-largest union, the IUE-CWA, saw its 8,500 Delphi
>members approve a strike-authorization vote earlier this year. Before a
>strike is approved, members of the electronics union will be polled
>again for approval.
>
>The union official said Shoemaker informed the local presidents that
>12,000 GM workers had signed up for the buyout since the automaker
>began offering them in April. The new deadline for taking the buyout is
>June 23, with workers having an additional seven days to change their
>minds and rescind the buyout.
>
>GM intends to cut its hourly U.S. work force by 30,000 by 2008. GM
>spokeswoman Katie McBride declined to confirm the 12,000 buyout figure
>announced by Shoemaker.
>
>The buyout packages range from a lump-sum payment of $35,000 to coax
>hourly workers with 30 years' seniority to retire to a lump sum of
>$140,000 for workers with more than 10 years' seniority but less than
>27 years who are willing to give up rights to post-retirement health
>care and other benefits.