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NEWS & LETTERS, October-November 2006Protest at DelphiTroy, Mich.—Approximately 55 people demonstrated in front of the headquarters of Delphi here on Aug. 11. A UAW dissident group, "Soldiers of Solidarity," organized the demonstration. Delphi, the auto parts maker spun off from General Motors, is in a campus-like setting in Troy, a Detroit suburb—it was not possible to get closer than the sidewalk, hundreds of yards from the building. People came from as far away as Indiana, and there was a charter bus from Flint, which has a large Delphi plant. The demonstrators were Delphi workers and their supporters, including News and Letters Committees. The workers were concerned about the proposals for restoring bankrupt Delphi to profitability: slashing wages, benefits and pensions, and plant closings. Signs with slogans attacked both Delphi management and the UAW bureaucracy, such as "Fund Pensions Not Fraud" and "No More Sellouts." It goes without saying that a small number of Delphi workers and their supporters will not stop Delphi or its bankruptcy judge from what they are doing. What they did show was that the passion and reason of workers are very much alive. This is all the more apparent when workers such as those in Soldiers of Solidarity are not fatalistically accepting a bad situation but are actively fighting against capitalism in its death throes. In fact, Delphi workers are seriously talking about a strike in spite of the claims of Delphi and General Motors that this will ruin both companies. Flint supporter |
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