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And where are you getting your information Ed?

You're basing that on what? There is nothing on the CAW site, do you know something the membership doesn't?

Doesn't matter, he was too dense to get it anyways.

When I started at Ford, we had to walk 5 miles....both ways, just to put the part on the car

Because they are built on flexible manufacturing platforms. Ford is doing the same thing with the Flex and MKT, small production numbers, but the plant makes more than just that particular unit.

That makes two of you

Try reading the blue paper the pension fund sends you every year. Last year was in the neighbourhood of only 75% funding, and with the markets crashing the way they have, you'll be lucky to have 50% funding in the pension fund. And that's Ford !! GM is in much worse shape financially, and in the pension liablility. You're also forgetting that retirees still get our benefits, so they are covered for semi private coverage like you, and other benefits we have over and above the Ontario Government Drug Plan.

No they can't, anything anyone tells you is a rumour

And just what were the questions you asked Charly?

Would you care to elaborate?

Assuming he's asking for production, what details is it you need still Charly?

Hey, maybe they need to get Jim Stamford to show us with some cartoon clouds and a powerpoint presentation, then we'd understand CAW economics.

The majority of members get to decide, and guess what, the majority decided.

The AWS referred to something we gained in the last contract. It read that a production employee would get paid 8 hours pay for 7.5 hours work. As long as it was told before your lunch, the company could get you to work a mandatory 8 hours, and you would get paid .8 hours for the extra .5 That has been eliminated, and now production will work 8 and get paid 8.

I was watching CH news at 6:00 and they reported that the results weren't available yet. Watched the show right until it ended, and never saw any story after the original "no info", so I don't know what he was watching.