“We’re happy, happy, happy. Keeping people working...

“We’re happy, happy, happy. Keeping people working always makes us happy.”

--A union official, commenting on the acceptance by Van Nuys General Motors workers of the controversial job-sharing plan they turned down in a previous election.

“GM and the union wanted this plan. If you don’t vote for what they want the first time around, you have to vote again.”

--A union member.