Richard Shoemaker Quotations

We have said consistently that the only basis of finding satisfactory resolution to these matters is through the use of the collective bargaining process with Delphi, GM and the UAW at the bargaining table.

Should this happen, the UAW's only alternative would be to accept the offer or strike.

No one can have a tentative agreement without us being a part of it,

I'd be shocked if it was done by this weekend.

GM's claim that they are committed to investing in their American operations is belied by their actions. They continually threaten our locals with being sold or outsourced out of existence,

If the court rejects our agreement and Delphi imposes its last proposal, it will probably be impossible to avoid a long strike.

He (Miller) would do well to let the people at GM run General Motors and focus on whatever the hell it is he's supposed to be doing with Delphi,

We're obviously very pleased to have yet another Nobel Prize awarded to someone in our department.

I think it's unfortunate that they've decided to look at other options that are available to them, but of course everybody has the right to do those things,

I think it's unfair to raise people's hopes that there might be a settlement in sight if you don't believe that, and I don't happen to believe that's the case.

I think it would probably be presumptuous for anybody to suggest there is going to be a strike at Delphi,

We're all hopeful we'll find an answer to the issues,

We hope the company's announcement results in meaningful change in its position, but only time will tell if that is the case.

Whether it be in the trade union movement or the captains of industry, the vision that we have for America ought to be for a better America.

We urge the company to spend more time on negotiations and less on public posturing,

there are many, many significant issues to be resolved.

We believe it is clearly in the best interests of UAW-GM active workers, retirees and their families.

The parties have made progress but there are still significant issues that have to be resolved,

We will concentrate on resolving the issues at Saturn in the near future, ... We're hopeful we can do that without confrontation. Only time will tell whether or not we're successful.

We'd all like to bring them to a conclusion sooner rather than later, ... But precisely when we're going to be able to do that is anybody's guess.

This situation in Flint is a dramatic example of GM's 'America last' strategy, in which the corporation is attempting to radically downsize its American work force in favor of exploiting less-than-poverty level wages in other countries,

I've been the one who's been at the table. We don't have a tentative agreement.

it wouldn't put any additional pressure on them.

It would be presumptuous for anyone at this stage to suggest that is, or is not, what's going to happen. But it certainly is one of the options that is available,

Strikes are part of the collective bargaining process in normal times, and they certainly end up as a part of this process,

A contract adhered to by only one side is one that is no contract at all. ... They're also ignoring their social contract with America by transferring jobs to China Thailand and Mexico.

It ought to be a vision of how we make life better for those people that live here, not a vision for dismantling the manufacturing base and taking the quality of life that we've known and enjoyed down to that of a Third World country.

If you don't have a spouse that has health insurance or is covered some other way, you need to think long and hard about taking the buyout. You can go through $140,000 with amazing quickness.

But it's even more presumptuous for (Miller) and others to suggest there will be no strike at Delphi.