Search News
For the Media
For media inquiries, call CWA Communications at 202-434-1168 or email comms@cwa-union.org. To read about CWA Members, Leadership or Industries, visit our About page.
IUE-CWA, Other Unions Launch Delphi Coalition
IUE-CWA and five other major industrial unions have formed a coalition to fight Delphi Corp.'s plan to shift the burden of its bankruptcy onto its hourly employees.
Pledging a strong coordinated fight against the company's assault on working families in their communities, the "Mobilizing@Delphi" coalition includes the Autoworkers, Steelworkers, IBEW, Machinists and Operating Engineers. Together, they represent 33,650 Delphi workers.
"We are hoping it will be the great awakening," said IUE-CWA President Jim Clark, quoted Nov. 8 in the Washington Post. "This is not going on just with Delphi, but within the airline industry and corporate America. We're hoping this will get the attention of the public and Capitol Hill."
A strongly worded statement from the coalition expressed outrage at the company's proposed "radical destruction of the living standards of American workers," while at the same time rewarding 500 "key employees" with up to 10 percent of company stock and $87.9 million in cash bonuses.
"Delphi's contract proposals to our unions, together with CEO Steve Miller's public statements, clearly reveal senior management's contempt and disdain for the hard-working people who have played a vital role in making Delphi the world's leading automotive parts manufacturer. They have worked hard and played by the rules, but now they find everything they've worked for put at grave risk by years of corporate mismanagement, some of which is under investigation by the SEC, and by Miller's slash-and-burn restructuring strategy," the coalition stated.
The coalition warned that Delphi's salaried employees will also be targeted by Miller's strategy, that the company's suppliers and customers, and small business owners in locations Delphi chooses to close will be affected, and that stockholders "will be left holding worthless scraps of paper."
"In the days and weeks ahead, the Mobilizing@Delphi coalition will be reaching out to all these Delphi stakeholders in our campaign to get Delphi off the disastrous course plotted by its senior management."
Pledging a strong coordinated fight against the company's assault on working families in their communities, the "Mobilizing@Delphi" coalition includes the Autoworkers, Steelworkers, IBEW, Machinists and Operating Engineers. Together, they represent 33,650 Delphi workers.
"We are hoping it will be the great awakening," said IUE-CWA President Jim Clark, quoted Nov. 8 in the Washington Post. "This is not going on just with Delphi, but within the airline industry and corporate America. We're hoping this will get the attention of the public and Capitol Hill."
A strongly worded statement from the coalition expressed outrage at the company's proposed "radical destruction of the living standards of American workers," while at the same time rewarding 500 "key employees" with up to 10 percent of company stock and $87.9 million in cash bonuses.
"Delphi's contract proposals to our unions, together with CEO Steve Miller's public statements, clearly reveal senior management's contempt and disdain for the hard-working people who have played a vital role in making Delphi the world's leading automotive parts manufacturer. They have worked hard and played by the rules, but now they find everything they've worked for put at grave risk by years of corporate mismanagement, some of which is under investigation by the SEC, and by Miller's slash-and-burn restructuring strategy," the coalition stated.
The coalition warned that Delphi's salaried employees will also be targeted by Miller's strategy, that the company's suppliers and customers, and small business owners in locations Delphi chooses to close will be affected, and that stockholders "will be left holding worthless scraps of paper."
"In the days and weeks ahead, the Mobilizing@Delphi coalition will be reaching out to all these Delphi stakeholders in our campaign to get Delphi off the disastrous course plotted by its senior management."