By Doug Cunningham

In the face of strong union solidarity Delphi has withdrawn its cutthroat wage demands and has backed off - at least for now - from moving to void its union contracts and end pensions. Marco Trbovich of the United Steelworkers is a spokesperson for the six Delphi unions that formed Mobilizing@Delphi to fight the draconian wage cut demands.

[Marco Trbovich 1] : "It's only because the workers reacted so fervently to the insult of the offer he had put on the table, and so unanimously across the board regardless of which union they were in. Clearly there needs to be word from Miller on what he will do to reform the management of Delphi rather than reward it while he's punishing workers."

Trbovich says the lesson here is that when workers unite and decide to fight they can often win.

[Trbovich 2] : "Solidarity works. Clearly the immediate and well-organized solidarity of the workers and members of the UAW, the IUE-CWA, the Steelworkers, IBEW and several others had a profound impact here and sent a clear message."

Delphi now says it wants to achieve a consensus with its unions and with GM to stay in business.