This week’s episode of Catalyst Radio features an interview with Greg Shotwell of the rank-and-file labor organization Soldiers of Solidarity and its efforts to organize under the principle of international solidarity. In the interview, Greg Shotwell discusses his belief that Delphi a test case of using courts to break union contracts and dump pension responsibility on to the government and health care benefits onto the taxpayers and that other multinational corporations will follow suit if the effort is successful because it will increase profits. He describes Delphi’s action as being a product of gross mismanagement and fraud while describing the response of Soldiers and Solidarity as an outgrowth of what happened at Delphi and a recognition that there is a need for a more direct response from working people than what has been offered by the unions.
The group’s next meeting is planned for March 19, 2006 at 1025 3 Mile Rd NE in Grand Rapids from 2:00pm to 5:00pm.
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