“We feel we started with nothing, now we have the tribe willing to negotiate with the company over the dismissal of 140 employees and a federal audit has been promised of on the job training funds paid to the Fairchild Camera and Instruments Co.”
Conference was called to “get the media to get off our case and to start concentrating on Fairchild.”
“I don’t try to see it from the corporate viewpoint. Besides, no job in America is worth costing people their respect.”
“Yes there’ll be some negative reaction on the part of businesses, but it may be good for the reservation in the long run.”
“All the media coverage I see on this thing is that AIM gets amnesty. AIM did not ask for amnesty. That was never one of our issues or demands. The issues are Fairchild and the exploitation of the Navajo Tribe.” ~
SOURCE: Clovis News Journal