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She is our acting QM as of last Wednesday.

And some of these very same people demand $15.00 an hour for Walmart and Mickey D. workers as well. The media are nothing more than a bunch of shit stirrers.

Me too.

I agree, trailfndr. Since we must continue to pay dues until the contract expires in 2015, Bob and his boys will have already taken theirs and left. The possibility of our contract being opened up for the umpteenth time should be lessened, however.

Thank you very much.

My guess is that we are going to have a really broad definition of "incidental work".

The old Wayne ISA seems like a no bullshit place ... do your job and do it right ... go home to tv every night.

Where did you come up with 40k fired? Here's what I found regarding the Boeing strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Machinists_Strike_of_2008 . It looks like they didn't do too bad for themselves.

At 5:08 PM Today Detroit's channel 7 news reported that our local 900 voted down the contract 51% to 49%.

You are quite welcome. And may I say thank you for my wonderful Escape.

Nice!

Let's go Blue ..... Oval!

Does anybody know whether or not the fire at the Magna plant in Howell is going to set us back further with I.P.'s from Saline? In http://www.freep.com/article/20110302/NEWS06/110302065/Employees-describe-crazy-scene-Howell-Township-auto-supplier-fire-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE the story mentioned that "chemicals in that area are used to make dashboard skins for vehicles." I hope we can pump out a boat load of our new Focii before gas goes back down in this up and down petrol market.

Once sub and tap have been exhausted, don't you bump the lowest senority in your zone?

And in the not too distant future WAP will no longer exist as well.

"Brand New"? The "Truck Plant" made school busses, station wagons, F-150's, Expeditions and so on and so forth. Can you name 1 Ford plant in the United States that has only produced 1 vehicle? This is not a brand new plant. When we get a heavy rain, the garbage cans and plastic will be out in full force. Our roof leaks like an 80 year old drinking beer.

I appreciate your update, MTP'er. I was unable to make it to the meeting today.

Because they can't f'ing stop.

Take home $175, laid off a lot last year.

Same to you.

Do your jobs safely, ..... please.

What a great local! You guys and gals have shown us true unionism once again. Bless you all and THANKS!

..... A lot of $14.00 an hour jobs? Well then, you are quite welcome.

I am eating it with you, my friend. But at least my local did the 49 to 51 thing. I was right about them, anyway .....