delphi went from 15,000 employees 20 or 30 years ago, down to just a few today. and a group that has been adversely affected with maybe not as much attention as should have been given are the delphi salary employees who have spent 2/3 of their careers working for delphi, working under the general motors' umbrella. and helping with the engineering, designing, the running of this company, have spent their lives, spent a lot of their time, missed a lot of baseball games, missed a lot of kids' events, dedicating their lives to this company and now finding themselves in a very difficult position as we go through the restructuring, to where many of them have taken a buyout and were promised a supplemental to get them to social security. and now through the restructuring, they may not only lose their pensions, but they're also going to louis their supplemental. they're also losing their health care. and this is a group of people that contributed to this company, contributed to this company -- country and deserve to be heard. and this company that has suffered all of the

the crisis plays itself out in warren and dayton, where delphi salary workers who played by the rules are left without pensions that they deserve. from warren from dayton, from smaller communities are unfortunately not unique. there are stories from small ohio towns like trotwood, near dayton, vanwood, greenwood and other areas across ohio and throughout the midwest. that's why it angered me as i sat in the banking committee as i chaired that committee as chairman dodd was working on health care issues, when i hear the restructuring proposals by g.m. and chrysler portrayed by my more conservative colleagues in this body, when they label it as everybody sacrifices but the workers. we have seen a $7 an hour cut in compensation for these workers, that's $14,000 a year hit that these workers are taking. they're far from giveaways, american autoworkers, their families an their communities are all in this together and have suffered -- and with their communities have suffered more than anybody. just three years ago there were a quarter million members of the u.a.w. after the g.m. and chrysle