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Perhaps they should have gainfully employed them making common components, instead of outsourcing the supply.
You are not wrong. Delphi came to be in the mid nineties when GM separated their parts business from their car making business.
The issue with the unions was that the employees transfer was agreed on based on an arrangement whereby GM would not make any redundancies and furthermore GM were to absorb back any employees made redundant at Delphi.
In a growing market this worked well, but come 2000/2001 and the market started shrinking, GM had their own employees they could not make redundant , and they had to take back their ex-Delphi employees in droves... all with expensive private health care plans, I should add. Sitting at home twiddling their thumbs. They eventually let go some 11,000 employees worldwide.
Delphi went into Chapter 11 in 2005, and in 2008 GM needed a US government bailout. Delphi has since been broken down and sold in 2009 into private ownership.
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