Unions Rather See Detroit Go Bankrupt Than Accept Real World Benefit Concessions

Union leaders cast doubt on dire financial figures contained in Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr’s restructuring plan ahead of a closed-door meeting Thursday to discuss health-care changes that could help the city avoid the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

Dozens of union officials and attorneys converged on the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center early Thursday and criticized Orr for skipping the meeting and sending members of his restructuring team. On Friday, Orr personally met with about 150 officials from banks, bondholders, pension funds and unions during a closed-door meeting to discuss concessions that would slash the city's approximately $20 billion in debt.

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absent - 6/20/2013 7:37:57 PM

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Unions outlived their usefulness about 40 years ago.
Time for them to go extinct......

LexSucks - 6/21/2013 1:25:16 PM

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Yeah.... That's it. Let the corporations decide everything. Benefits, salary, etc...

LexSucks - 6/25/2013 5:14:57 PM

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Corporations love people like you. They are counting all the money while guys like you fight against the poor folks. Which puts more money in thier pockets. Keep it up. And unions didn't kill detriot, crappy cars and banking everything on SUVs killed detroit

HughJass - 6/21/2013 7:05:32 PM

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Let them go bankrupt. Not sure who'll be sending them unions paychecks then. Those good'ol Koreans will give us the stuff we want free anyways like they're supposed to.

detfan - 6/25/2013 11:34:21 AM

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The City should pattern after the automakers, who have succeeded in concessions to the point where benefit packages are comparable to transplant factory workers, and you see huge quarterly profits now.