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***** Profit Sharing Distribution ***** The accelerated partial profit sharing payment will be distributed on December 15, 2011. This date is later than originally indicated because it was necessary to establish alternative methods of distribution at our members request. ... As such, there are now three methods in which you may elect to have your profit sharing payment distributed. 1) Cash, either by check or direct deposit. 2) Contributions to your TESPHE account. 3) Contributions to your Ford Interest Advantage Account (FIA). The election period will run from Monday, November 14 until Tuesday, November 22, 2011. Further details regarding tax obligations and any other deductions will be forthcoming. We appreciate your patience and hope that you will find the payment options, or any combination thereof, acceptable. Should you have any further questions, please contact your Local Benefits Representative. Thank you

Will there be an opportunity for us to elect to have some or all of our profit sharing directed to our TESPHE? and if so......when?

Would someone please post the profit sharing formula again....seen it on here a few weeks ago and can't seem to find it again.......thanks

That is what I thought....that profit sharing is solely based on North American Sales....period...but then, I recall the year that the Firestone debacle came about.....I think we had pretty good sales that year but remember our profit sharing checks were small....it is a little foggy....and the following year they wanted us to buy back all the ground up tires for mulch for our yards......hmmmmm....does anyone remember what our sales were that year (Firestone)? like I said it is a little foggy....

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[ Rumor.....Rumor......but I'll take it if it's true.....

exactly.....something just doesn't make sense.....get rid of a shift....hold on to 200 extra people....for tag relief....and nobody seems to know how tag relief really works.....we'll just do it.......i know it is a stretch of the imagination on my part but it really seems to me that they wanted to eliminate a shift....cram 72 jobs an hour down our throats and add the tag relief fiasco and change the start time.....then i hear talk of going back to two shifts...adding another vehicle.....i wouldn't be surprised that after all this they offer another round of buyouts to see if we are soooooo tired and worn out from all this that just enough of us will take it so they can hire entry level workers to fill a whole second shift....in the meantime our product suffers......

Don't hold your breath on AAI and the union getting anything resolved.....in my 23 years at this plant i have never seen it so unorganized and people turning around in circles.....our union leadership is pathetic and our managment has their heads in their arses.......tag relief is going to be a nightmare if it comes to fruition.....in our unit alone we have two tag relief people that are on restrictions and can't do an RTO job and the other never comes to work and when they do can't do one single job .....pathetic.....we should have NEVER had people pick tag relief positions without a clear definition of job descriptions......the company has thrown together a line balance to go to one shift and they go off halfed cocked without any forethought......what a mess....and we are expected to build quality vehicles under this kind of leadership???? WTF

Ok, now that we have signed the grievance...when do we get our bonuses and our COLA back? oh, and our break time and our tuition assistance....etc...etc....

AAI members are laid off for two weeks.........will they be collecting signatures when we return in two weeks????

Letter says January 5th....should get web address here shortly...I hope....if anyone hears anything please post..............

Yes, my Mom gets a small pension from Ford 380 a month....now they are going to take 100 from that....now her pension is 280 a month....my father was skilled tradesmen for 21 years....and this is what his widow is left with.....she is 83 years old....on several different meds....pitiful...

I was talking about today............so, never mind......we were told that we would be getting OT for the overtime worked after the SWW.......will believe it when I see it......also heard they may take volunteers to work Saturday..........day shift

If we have to work on Friday is that OT or will they take all of Monday's SWW??

Amen to that!!!! Move along already....it is time....there are way too many of the above mentioned in our plants.....if they want to stay...they should have to pull their weight....I bet they would retire then...oh and cut their overtime........notice they all work in departments that have overtime......

I second that............

How does this "powerful tool" allow US to get MORE..............I don't get it............it sounds more like the company is using this patterning tool against us........If Ford would get it's head out of it's ASS and fire some of the idiots that are running the show on the floor maybe we could wipe that debt out before the end of 2010!!!

Nothing in this modification suggests a yes vote to me.....give us something we can look forward to.....we can't even look at getting $1000.....if Ford shows a profit and we get profit sharing, we don't get the $1000.......I don't want to look forward to working for the same wage until 2015.....a lot can happen in 6 years....I think they should go back to the table and bring us something else....like when they start making money hand over fist.....we get something back, like COLA, or our 3% raises...or BOTH!!! this modification give us nothing to look forward to....Ford Motor is looking way ahead on this....we should be too....entry level employees will be voting on our behalf in 10 years....remember that.....lets make them go back to the table and bring us something we can vote yes on......we can do better than this...screw pattern bargaining....we are nothing like GM and Chrysler.....not even close....

I also install weatherstrip ...we use purple merpol, it makes install much easier...

can anyone answer these questions, four tens, how long can they make you work 11? 12 hours? how does OT work? do they have you come in on Friday's and work how long? 4,6,8, 10 hours or whatever? anyone out there that has worked 4 tens please enlighten me......thanks....

Fear Mongers all of you, relax, we will be fine......

Friday, Saturday and Sunday off?

I am assuming the three days off will be Friday through Sunday? A shift still starts @ 6:30 a.m.? no first week off in May?

The Obama administration has now decided to build this supercompetitive auto company in GM, so if Ford can’t make itself into a mirror image of that they’ll have difficulty competing. The government has to worry about the impact on Ford now.”