Delphi chief Robert S. Miller has a strategy in mind for dealing with labor problems. He intends to confront Delphi's unions in a way that Detroit has rarely seen. Next month, Delphi is expected to ask a federal bankruptcy judge for permission to terminate contracts paying $64 an hour in wages and benefits combined, so that it can impose sharply lower rates. Miller has threatened that all 34,000 of Delphi's jobs are at risk if the company cannot achieve its terminations; he has boldly stated that he has no fear of a strike occurring.
See "Delphi Chief Fights Battle of Detroit", Micheline Maynard, The New York Times, November 22, 2005