68 Quotes by Harley Shaiken

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.

It's unclear if it's a route to a better job or to a more educated unemployment.

The next step will be the permanent replacement of mechanics and cleaners. That is what Northwest will announce sooner rather than later.

The notion of a buyout as large as 20,000 workers would go a long way toward settling the Delphi situation.

Economic growth in the United States in the 20th century was based on building entrances to the middle class, from Henry Ford in 1913 to strong unions in the '50s and '60s.

Everyone on the picket line who thought they could be out of a job for good will be out of a job for good.

It's certainly representative of the discontent that's out there. The retirees are frustrated, but I don't think it represents a major threat yet.

They've got tough issues, but nobody wants to put the moneymaking on hold to sort it out.

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.