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Nonunion auto retirees cry foul over deal
Washington Times, by William Ehart & Andrea Billups
Decades ago, when Deborah Hampton was a young divorced mother of two, her father encouraged her to go to work for his employer, General Motors Corp.
Just as GM used to be considered a safe stock that parents could buy to help secure their children's financial future, it also used to be a company where a concerned father could feel his daughter's future was secure.
Thirty-one years later, Mrs. Hampton is set to lose as much as $1,700 of her monthly pension from auto-parts supplier Delphi Corp., which was spun off from GM in 1999. Her employer-provided health insurance -- Mrs. Hampton has diabetes and a family history of glaucoma -- was canceled last month.
"Every morning you wake up and go, 'Oh, my God, here's another day of struggle,' " said the 59-year-old grandmother from Grand Blanc, Mich. "I say my prayers every day at the same time for a half an hour. I ask, 'Please don't let us spiral into poverty.' "
The former executive secretary and 22,000 other Delphi salaried retirees understand these are hard times for everyone, especially those in the auto industry -- but they feel discriminated against because they did not belong to a union.
you voted for him...so STFU!
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