That's the only thing that he spoke against at almost every council meeting.

But we're also far enough apart, ... that we could end up in the ditch tonight.

We're going to hang with the deadline, ... We either have a settlement or we'll have a shutdown tomorrow night at midnight. We're working toward a settlement and we hope the company is doing the same thing.

I'm not very optimistic at this point. The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on outsourcing our jobs . . . to anywhere in the world that can do it cheaper.

Things at the local table picked up a bit yesterday. For Chrysler to start doing local negotiations on a serious basis this early, it may very well be a signal they want to get a settlement,

That means two or three more vehicles per shift,