whitetail

How come the plant chair of Dearborn truck can't afford to pay for his own vehicle like the rest of us? He makes well over $150.000, sounds like someone is in bed with the company!

I was looking in the new agreement, and was looking at the different zones and noticed a line drawn thru Phoenix hvc. Can we still go there if openings come up during the buyouts. Or is it off limits now?

Per the Uaw constitution you have a right to change your local bylaws. The membership decides whether to accept it or not. It is not uncommon to separate the president and chairman position. You do when your membership numbers go up, so that your chairman can have the time to represent you properly. It has nothing to do with your plant. It is about the numbers go up and more reps get put on. Look in your national agreement.

If they cut anymore it would definitely effect some of the committee persons.

Yea, Chairman is protected until elections next spring, then bye, bye, to him and the rest of this committee!!!!

The other problem we have here is our union representatives have NO seniority and our protecting their own butts. Self serving

The union here at Van Dyke said 2 months ago NO ONE was leaving, well 40 are gone now and we have layoffs scheduled one week for the next 3 months, my guess is we are still overroll and need to shed more manpower, maybe when our Union gets their head out of the sand and deals with the real issue, which is not enough work for the manpower we have. No new work until new line gets installed within 2 years. Short answer more people are leaving!!!

Well it looks like Sterling is getting some of our employees, seems we are fat and you are skinny. So we are going to send you 50 of our finest.

First of all, if you know anything about the National agreement, you carry your seniority with you. You cannot negotiate anything locally that supercedes the National agreement. We have heard from clowns like you before when we transfered to other facilities, and guess what we still had our seniority. So let me break it down for you over at Livonia. MAP is laying off and Rawsonville is going to also post it at their facility. So in other word there is a whole lot of people coming who are going to have a lot of seniority, and there is not a damn thing you can do about it. HA! HA! Get used to it, some day you will have seniority TOO!

With the Fn area leaving and stamping being taken out, I am sure the plant will be in an over roll condition. Therefore layoffs are going to happen. It also does not help that we are over producing parts, there is no longer a need to carry the extra crews in maching and midrange, Van Dyke has never been a plant that does rolling layoffs, nor should it be. The local union needs to quit hiding and communicate with the membership, let people know what is going on, and make a informed decision about their lives! So I guess the answer to your question is YES there is going to be people leaving Van Dyke. It may be high seniority, if the local union post jobs at other facilities, or low seniority being forced somewhere else.

I was wondering with all of the buyouts and retirement packages, why are we not seeing postings at the HVC centers. Can the employees at these sites let me know if they are using temps or second tier.

At Rawsonville under the first modification they gave us a commitment of a feasibility study for seats, no real commitment other than work that was already slated to come to our plant. Any contract with a feasibilty study in it, is a vote NO for me. Any contract without our COLA is a vote NO for me.

A $5000.00 dollar signing bonus is only $2800.00 after taxes which translates into $700.00 a year, we have lost over $30,0000 dollars over the last 3 years. What about all of the concessions we gave up 3 years ago, Ford is making money and not lowering the price of cars, but yet they do not want to give us a raise. When Ron Gettlefinger was President and negotiated the VEBA he said it was funded for 80 years, and now they are already asking for money from your profit sharing check to help fund it. We need commitments of real work!!!! NO MORE VAGUE PROMISES.

What peole at Rawsonville need to realize is, employees from Saline who were on temporary assignment from Rawsonville will be returning and displacing lower seniority employees at Rawsonville who are currently working. meanwhile temps are being hired to work at Rawsonville, while employees from Rawsonville are being forced to DTP. This is so WRONG!!!

Just in case you though I was lying here is the document: