downriverrat

TELL THAT TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE FROM THE YPSILANTI AND MONROE ACH PLANTS.....

ARE YOU HAPPY WITH YOUR DECISION TO TRANSFER TO WFP ???? OR WOULD YOU RATHER BE BACK ON AN ASSEMBLY LINE???

I thought Auto Alliance International / AAI was grouped in the Asian-Pacific profit section??

This is what I was told: Saline brought back some ILO'd ACH (orange) workers to help durning the transition of over 400 people. This latest transition at Saline is.. Ford workers returning to their home plants.. (i.e. DTP, Wayne, ISA) to be replaced w/ other temp volunteer Ford workers. What I'm saying is your not being replaced by "lower seniority" / ACH they are just their to help w/ training. Ford (light blue) will eventually fill those spots after all the dust settles. And the volunteer temp jobs at Saline: I can't belive Bob King would agree to restrict seniority again. Doesn't he remember what a disaster the 10-29-84 leveling date was in the 80's Our seniority is the basis of unionism.. Shit it's practically all we got left

I've been told there is a grievance in the system pretainting to that. Saline ACH workers that signed to "flow back to Ford" are the one's that started it. Because of "mis-information" they were told by their Union. Does anyone know anything else about it??? Like how do you sign to be a part of this grievance???

The reason the members on "loan" to Saline & Sheldon Rd are not being canvased for RTBU's is because they are basiclly under "contract" to work there for up to 4 years. That's what the documentation stated if I remember correctly. The members can be recalled by their basic unit (home plant) if that plant needs bodies, but they are obligated to fulfill the agreement

I COULDN'T AGREE MORE!!! INTERNATIONAL SCREWED UP BIG TIME WITH THIS TEMP BULLSHIT. THIS WAS A TRAIN WRECK WAITING TO HAPPEN AND HERE WE GO. I HOPE THEY COME UP WITH A BETTER PLAN TO PLACE THE DISPLACED AAI WORKERS.

In regards to seniority being able to bump a lower out of a job- I agree that seniority should rule but lets not forget that all the Ford workers left at the ACH plants have had NUMEROUS opportunities to leave these plants!! They took the risk and stayed at an ACH plant knowing it was ultimately going to be sold or closed . The others left to stay with Ford. So no I don't think they should than be able to bump a lower out of their spot.

In regards to the administration of our TESPHE from Fidelity to “ACS” Why this transition? What is ACS? Will this impact our potential 401K profit in the future? Anybody know????

NOW THAT'S FUNNY !!!!!

Sorry I don't have a link, the whole article was sent to me like that. :-(

Friday, April 17, 2009 Commentary Jerry Kroth We hear about General Motors' struggling, bailouts and bankruptcy, and we hear about how Toyota, Honda and Nissan will fill the vacuum created by any GM or Chrysler bankruptcy. But what we don't hear ought to pique your interest: Last year Japan imported a whopping 8,000 Fords. That's right, 8,000 Fords were sold in Japan while Toyota alone sold 2 million automobiles here in America. Honda sold a million. According to Frank Fillipo of Autoblog, poor GM only sold 2,000 cars in Japan last year. Why? The average GM car in the United States costs about $25,000, but in Japan the same car costs $50,000. A big mark up, plus tons of other obstacles and restrictions. No one calls that protectionism, but that is exactly what it is. There is an overwhelming pressure to keep foreign imports out of Japan, whether its so-called "inferior" American cars, "infected" Washington apples or "tainted" American meat. Eleven Saturn vehicles were sold in Japan -- a car made jointly by the U..S.. and Japan -- and a piddling 12 Rolls Royces. I guess Rolls Royce is considered inferior as well. Peter Mandelson, the European Union's external trade commissioner, said last week that Japan was "the most closed developed market in the world and that imbalances ... were truly staggering." The social pressures within Japan and the complex layer-cake of bureaucratic restrictions keep all imports marginalized, not just our cars. To be specific: The Japanese car market of 4.5 million vehicles begrudgingly allowed 6 percent of their car market to be made up of non-Japanese manufactured vehicles. In South Korea, the situation is even worse. It imported 9,000 U.S. cars but sold 800,000 cars in ours. If you think a Kia outperforms a Malibu, good luck. Imagine a refreshing change -- a new law requiring that Japanese and Korean car manufacturers only allowed to sell the same number of cars in the United States that they reluctantly import into their countries. In other words, the playing field would finally be leveled. GM, Ford and Chrysler would start filling the vacuum created by the sudden absence of Toyotas, Nissans and Hondas from American showrooms. If Japan could only sell to us what it purchased from us, it would be limited to 5.5 percent of the U.S. car market and not a fraction more, and Korea would be limited to a mere 2 percent. Thousands of American jobs would be saved; thousands more created. The Rust Belt would experience a renaissance. Instead of Detroit, let's have Toyota City take it on the chin for a change. Sure, the Japanese would protest that they had to start letting their showroom dealers start selling Fords and Chevys at competitive prices. Maybe a trade war would start; maybe they'd cash in their T-bills, but it is just as likely that the bigwigs of Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Kia would hurriedly ask parliamentarians to open markets to allow more American cars to be sold there so more of their cars could be sold here. Maybe Congress and the media are opposed, but in the days of Jimmy Hoffa and Walter Reuther, a healthy strike by autoworkers and sympathetic truckers could shut our country down until we saw some real action. Maybe its time to clog the turnpikes, slow interstate commerce to a crawl, and demand that fairness in trade finally be implemented. If now is not the time, well, just how close does the patient have to get to death before we decide to stop the bleeding? Jerry Kroth is an associate professor of psychology at Santa Clara University in California and a former Detroiter.

I'll rephrase that than... "Visteon" Temp workers/orange workers....

I THOUGHT THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE SALINE DEAL WAS TO GET UNEMPLOYED FORD WORKERS BACK TO WORK???? ALL THIS TIME HAS PASSED AND THERE IS STILL FORD WORKERS COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT AND BURNNING UP THEIR SUB PAY, WHILE FORD PAYS TEMP WORKERS TOO???? WTF?

I don't see a problem with it either.. I think it's great that we are now being given the opportunity to transfer to different locations

If sales picked up and line speeds increased wouldn't that mean the the AAI transfers to Saline would be called back??? That's the way I read it. I don't think they would be hiring new workers. This seems to be the new way things work. Ford workers just move from plant to plant where ever the need is the greatest... what ever is selling you just sign up to go there.

I was told it saves an assembly plant 6 million dollars a year to switch to a 4 day work week. I'm sure the savings would be similar at a parts plant.

"hedgehog21"... AKA... Jon Snyder ????

This guy must have seen the Blue Oval sign in the trailer I had heard about :-)

First I’ve heard rumors that Saline is going back to a FORD facility for months now, which I never believed because it doesn’t make good business sense for Ford to do that now. Today I was told that people have seen a semi truck on the plant property with Blue Oval signs in it??? Bullshit???? Anybody heard this? If Saline did go back to Ford: A: All Saline workers that flowed out of that plant as an ACH that was slated to be sold or closed by 2008 should have first rights to return!!!!! B: All the recent openings that were posted as a “temporary” should have to be reposted! Secondly; this whole Saline deal makes no since. I understand the need to empty the jobs bank, but instead of creating all of this “temporary” churning why would the union and the company just tell the people in the bank to report to Saline? Saline is not a Ford plant, and bank people could have been placed there temporarily. Wow.. job bank empty.. quick, easy, simple. Now you’ve got all these people moving and being backfilled with bank people temporally. We were told that the 200+ openings created at our plant by the Saline volunteers will be filled by available job bank people, and they will be “loaned” to us as temporaries with no seniority…????? I’ve never heard of such a thing, and I wonder if the bank people are aware of this.

I agree that the overall union at AAI is pretty powerless, but I think it has more to do with the fact that they have to work with a contract that looks like it was written by “Mickey Mouse”. Compounded with the fact that historically management has had no respect or regard for the unions place. The way that I understand the possible return of the outsourced Axel jobs is that AAI reps have presented the company with a business plan or bid on the axel work. According to that proposal it’s financially beneficial for the company to return that work to AAI hourly work force. It is highly likely that this work will be returned… when is the question??

Stamper, Steven L. Saline, MI Age 53, passed away peacefully in his sleep at home on Thursday, November 27, 2008. He was born August 23, 1955 in Rockwood, MI to Charles and Betty Lou (Reitan)Stamper. On December 23, 2003 he married Emily Rachel Anaya and she survives. Steve graduated from Carlton-Airport High School where he was an all state athlete in football, basketball and baseball. He then graduated from E.M.U.where he played basketball. He was the longest serving chairman of the Milan Ford Plastic's Plant of Local 600 where he was employed for over 30 years. He was a loyal and devoted official who was one of the smartest and wittiest chairman in the system of the U.A.W., Steve was also an avid golfer, lifelong fan of U. of M. football and an amazing friend to all. He was well respected and loved by both his family and collegues. Steven was deeply loved and cherished by his suvivors, wife Emily, his six week old son Charles William and his twenty six year old son, Christopher Charles, his loving motherBetty Lou, a brother Chuck and five sisters, Suzanne, Jacquie, Margie, Barbara and Carolyn. He was preceded in death by his father and a sister Mary. Visitation will be held at Ochalek-Stark Funeral Home, Milan on Tuesday from 6-8pm and Wednesday from 1-4 and 6-8pm. and Thursday from 9-00am until the time of service. Funeral services will begin at Ochalek-Stark Funeral Home in Milan on Thursday at 10-00am followed by procession to St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Saline for a Mass of Christian Burial at 11-00am. In Leiu of flowers those desiring may make contributions to the Charles William Stamper Scholarship Fund in care of Emily Anaya-

The only production (not trades) people I know that didn't get to flow back were people that only selected out of state HVC and / or picked plants they knew they had no chance of getting into. There's been two flow backs available and several "relocation road shows" ACH'ers could have signed up and went somewhere.

0 at AAI and Woodhaven. I've heard Chicago assembly has 300 or more temps. The only openings that will be available for you ACH'ers that waited untill the last minute will be openings created from buy-out takers. Good luck.