It's going to have significant impact on the companies and on the industry. It is a painful option for the union but it is the best option of those available.
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This was difficult for the union to do, but the union is being pragmatic. Its goal is to preserve jobs. It realizes the severity of the situation that GM is in.Harley Shaiken
The global economy has become a blast furnace that seeks to eliminate many of the gains that steelworkers have won over the years.
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They are reaching out and offering the workers a service, but they are also laying out the possibility of workers beginning to work together. So as an individual, you don't have to confront the largest employer in the world. You can do it as a group.
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The corporation knows the sensitivity of these kinds of issues, they have a lot of experience with what will provoke a local strike. What I suspect they (the GM management) didn't anticipate is that it would reach this intensity.
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A lot will depend on who's the first company up. You may almost have an insipid auction taking place among the companies trying to be first.
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I think what we are looking at here are exit roads from the middle class.
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