Delphi's request for a federal judge to allow the company to throw out some of its labor agreements could cost 20,000 union workers their jobs and leave thousands of others with less than half their current wages. Unless the judge rejects Delphi's effort to abrogate its contract, the United Auto Workers faces the prospect that it can no longer give its workers the security it has fought for years to provide.
See "Car Parts Maker Moves to Break Its Union Deals", Micheline Maynard, The New York Times, April 2, 2006