Gregg Shotwell Quotations

We're just going to have to take them to the mat. There's no reason to take concessions. It doesn't save jobs.

I think Delphi had a business plan to go bankrupt, but it got out of hand and went faster than they wanted, and it's become very messy. Also, Miller was very cocky. He was very antagonistic, and thought he was going to roll over the UAW. And the UAW International probably hoped that we would scare us bad enough so that we would roll over for concessions. Instead, the UAW rank-and-file response has been outrage and a willingness to fight back.

That was alarming because if my pensions depended on Delphi, I'd have no faith in it at all. We would prefer to have our money up front.

This was a big opportunity for the UAW to act like leaders of the labor movement. The only viable social and economic solution is national health care.

What struck me the most was he said he's going to try to keep Delphi pensions solvent. And I was struck that he would think that any of us would trust that.

This is an underground movement. The people most involved in the work-to-rule campaign are not wearing buttons and distributing literature...It's the dog that doesn't bark that bites.

This isn't a buyout, it's a buy off.

It's human nature to want to relieve anxiety. Some people will look at this as an escape. What I'm questioning is: Is there really safety in this? If you undermine the people that you leave behind, eventually they're going to be negotiating for us.

They want to pay the older seniority people to betray the lower seniority people and the workers in general. I'm afraid that if I accept this offer, I'm going to hurt the person I work next to because I'm going to abandon them.

I made that sign. Maybe I should send him one.