Fuck workers; save the execs (Delphi bankruptcy) -- violence coming?

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This is a MUST READ column for every working person in America.


http://www.freep.com/news/metro/dickerson10e_20051010.htm

BRIAN DICKERSON: Them that's got shall get

October 10, 2005

BY BRIAN DICKERSON
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST


People trying to understand what's happening at Delphi Corp. need only remember that we live in a competitive world.


To compete with stingy auto suppliers overseas, Delphi needs to pay its hourly workers less. To compete with corporations at home, Michigan's fourth-largest company needs to pay its top managers more. Got it? It's all about competition.


That's why Delphi wants its hourly workers to absorb a 63% pay cut, and why it filed for bankruptcy when they refused to swallow wage concessions on the company's tight schedule. And that's why, on the eve of its bankruptcy filing, Delphi sweetened severance packages for 21 top executives, who'll now get 18 months' salary, plus part of their regular bonuses, if their jobs are eliminated.


Message to hourly workers: These are tough times, but we're all in this together -- unless things get really bad, in which case managers' families get all the lifeboats.

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But I believe we are very near the point where the frustration of the working poor and newly unemployed may erupt in acts of violence the likes of which haven't been seen in this country since the earliest days of the labor movement.

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