Delphi workers march to show solidarity...

About 70 union members gathered shortly before noon in Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park near Patterson Boulevard and Stewart Street for the "March for Jobs."

Carrying banners and trying to stay warm in the cold and rain, the marchers were walking 1.5 miles to United Auto Workers Local 696 headquarters on Alwildy Avenue. near the former Delphi brake plant on Wisconsin Boulevard.

One banner said, "Don't let CEOs destroy the middle class." Another said. "When they outsource my job, yours is next."

Rose Stuck, 48, of West Milton, is a welder at the Delphi brake plant on Needmore Road. She believes the issue of job cuts will broadly affect the country, not just Delphi's manufacturing ranks.

"America is based on the manufacturing industry. If this goes, it will keep going," Stuck said. "It's not just Delphi, it's America."

Delphi filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Oct. 8. The company says it must close plants and secure large cuts in wages and benefits from its hourly U.S. workers to survive and emerge from bankruptcy in 2007.

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