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The suppliers receive an Operation Plan for each plant 3 months in advance. The plan I saw went through April and showed a plan of 80hrs production for all the weeks of April.

There was an issue with supplier quality, take the truck back to the dealer and tell them you want certified stock from the supplier.

Trim, Chas 1 and Frame 1 will Tag, Chas 2 and Frame 2 will Mass (go figure). Tire room will remain on the 3 8hr shifts until they can workout some of the issues they have with keeping up with the line.

Ford set up the stamping plants as the SBU (Stamping Business Unit) just like the parts division, ACH. And you can see what is now happening to the ACH plants.

FYI... The Fed Govt did away with the mandatory OT pay last year. Ford is under no legal obligation to pay OT over 40hrs.

Don't believe everything you hear. The person in the accident is one of my supervisors, she was not injured. The lines are running and the gates are open.

If the rumors are true about the number of orders for the 2008, Then we will need to go back to 3-crew. Hearing the order bank for 2008 is around 100,000.

You will probably walk away with ~ $58k after all taxes and withholdings.

Plant Manager announced it this morning: 5 down weeks between Aug 21 and Oct 1

The last 1/2 hour of each shift will be the remainder of their break for that shift and the next shift will take over at their start time.

'07 got the OK To Ship today, right on schedule. :happy feet:

Here are the totals for 2005 F-Series sold in the US that have at least one month of service. Does not include any import/export vehicles. F-Series > 8500 - 291,328 F-Series < 8500 - 517,346

What kind of noise is it making? Does it do it only on a hard turn? Left turn, right turn, or both?

KTP is setting up chairs and we are scheduled to go down at 10:00am for about 1 hour.

Are the plants planning on shutting down for the announcement. From the communication we received from the plant manager, it doesn't sound like we will be shutting down. Here is what he said: "We are working on the plan to communicate the Way Forward announcement to all employees. I'll advise accordingly what our communication plans are." This does not sound to me like they are going to let us view it first hand, they will let us know after the fact. Has anyone else heard how they are going to communicate the announcement to us? I always read about our profit sharing in the local paper before Ford lets us know, so why should plant closings be any different?!