Now it's a different world, and workers at Delphi are afraid of losing their way of life.
Because Delphi is still GM's number one parts supplier, and a strike at Delphi would be a disaster for GM.
Look at Delphi, the former General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) unit now in bankruptcy.
Look at Delphi, the former General Motors unit now in bankruptcy.
The deal will lift GMAC's ratings above parent GM's, which have been sinking deeper into junk territory in light of ongoing accounting issues and the possible hit from labor unrest at Delphi.
Then there is the worsening situation at Delphi.
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The Oracle at Delphi saw the true nature of Socrates, telling him that he was the wisest man in Athens not because he knew it all but because he was the only one who knew that he did not know.
And really there's another side of the deal, and that's for the workers that stay behind at Delphi, you know, the 8, 000 or so that weren't offered this deal, what wages and benefits will they be working at a few months from now?
John Huber heads the union's Local 1097 at a Delphi plant in Rochester, New York.
But tomorrow is far away at the Delphi Lodge.
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Virtually all of the necessary hardware is already on the shelf at companies such as Bosch, Delphi and Samsung.
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At the end of the day, Delphi's move into Chapter 11 seems to have less to do with its imminent demise otherwise than it does with forcing the hand of the United Auto Workers and GM.
From the glassfronted room, one looks out at the red lights of the artsy, Delphi cinema, that yesteryear was the haunt of cabaret singer, Marlene Dietrich and her songwriters before she exiled herself to Hollywood in the 1930s.
Mr. LINDSEY WILLIAMS (Spokesman, Delphi): We've been at this since October.
But analysts at Bank of America now rate GM's own chances of going into bankruptcy at 30%, up from 10% pre-Delphi.
Exporting jobs to low-wage countries like Mexico and China is an old game at GM and Ford, through their now-independent partsmakers Delphi and Visteon.
Mr. HARRY KATZ (Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University): What happens in the long run to Delphi and GM and the UAW is still very much up in the air.
At least just before a recent redo, there were only a dozen modestly luxurious bedrooms and no TVs in the Delphi Lodge.
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