{"id":198787,"date":"2007-10-10T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/10\/chrysler-workers-are-on-strike\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T16:12:00","slug":"chrysler-workers-are-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/10\/chrysler-workers-are-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrysler Workers are on Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/10\/10\/news\/companies\/chrysler_uaw\/index.htm\">45,000 members of the UAW at Chrysler went on strike today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said earlier, given that there already was a model for a contract as a result of the one signed with GM, this means that either the circumstances (far fewer retirees at Chrysler) or the culture (Cerberus is a private equity firm, and perhaps they are looking at pumping and dumping) that is driving this.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that Cerberus is not an auto firm, and are not interested in being one.  They want to resell Chrysler at a later time, and are pushing hard for concessions so that they can generate a quick sale or go public and reap the rewards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>45,000 members of the UAW at Chrysler went on strike today. As I&#8217;ve said earlier, given that there already was a model for a contract as a result of the one signed with GM, this means that either the circumstances (far fewer retirees at Chrysler) or the culture (Cerberus is a private equity firm, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,973,1023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-economy","category-labor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198787"}],"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=198787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}