{"id":190764,"date":"2009-10-27T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/27\/look-for-the-union-label\/"},"modified":"2009-10-27T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T00:41:00","slug":"look-for-the-union-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/27\/look-for-the-union-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Look for the Union Label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting fact:  If you retired from Delphi, the bankrupt GM parts supplier, and you are a member of the UAW, your pension is safe, because the Union fought for contractual assurances that it would be safe, but for non-union middle management?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/27\/business\/27delphi.html?ref=business\">Not so much<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">But four months later, Mr. Gump finds himself in a far more perilous condition than his neighbors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">On his street, he is the only Delphi worker whose pension benefits may be cut. His neighbors all belong to unions and have received a lifeline in an unprecedented deal related to the government-supervised bankruptcy of General Motors, the onetime parent of Delphi. (G.M. spun off the parts division as a separate company 10 years ago.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Mr. Gump and some 21,000 other salaried workers and retirees are furious that their roughly 46,000 union co-workers at Delphi have had their benefits restored, apparently with government largesse, and they have not.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not &#8220;government largesse&#8221;, of course, it&#8217;s because the Union used its clout to protect its people, and got agreements and guarantees from GM as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gump, like myself, is an engineer, who as a group are tremendously resistant to the idea of unionizing, and this cost him, and thousands like him at Delphi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting fact: If you retired from Delphi, the bankrupt GM parts supplier, and you are a member of the UAW, your pension is safe, because the Union fought for contractual assurances that it would be safe, but for non-union middle management? Not so much: But four months later, Mr. Gump finds himself &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,1023,978,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-labor","category-politics","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}