200-300 people attend Packard retirees’ rally today in Warren

WARREN — Leaders of the area Delphi Salaried Retirees Association say a bankruptcy judge’s opinion that the bidding to purchase Delphi should be opened up is positive news for the retirees.

It will give retirees more time to make their case in court and in the court of public opinion, said Chuck Cunningham, former senior executive at Delphi Packard Electric, who with his wife, Mary Ann, also a retired Delphi executive, led a retirees’ rally this morning June 11.

The rally, attended by 200 to 300 people, was conducted at Larchmont Avenue and North River Road, at the edge of the parking lot of the Delphi Packard plant where many of them had worked.

The thrust of their message to the retirees is that they must stick together and continue fighting if their are to achieve equal treatment with respect to health benefits and pensions with hourly Delphi and GM retirees.

“We need to make the court and the government understand we won’t let them discriminate against us,” Mary Ann Cunningham said.

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