jeg74

Got mine the 21st. Have to remember MLK Day........Federal holiday, no mail. You will get yours, dont worry. Good luck to you in your future carear!

You got me wrong brother. Maybe I didnt type it right! I'm very thankful for my job! I'm just saying, that this union does not inform the membership of whats going on! Its going to be "shit house politics" with nobody knowing nothing, but everybody has a answer! What I was saying was I dont miss the "GRIND" ! I wish you well and good fortune!

I thought sundays were voluntary? From what I was told by the dealership is demand for the 09 is low. But who knows? Maybe we can overload the dealer lots again and have next summer off too! Not looking forward to monday! There is going to be so many pissed off people who came from C-crew to B-Crew who dont want to be on that shift! I wonder how many times I will here when the next bump will be. Or that the union is not answering the phone. Or how many down weeks were getting! I can honestly say I havent missed DTP at all!

Shit rolls down hill buddy! Guess were we are standing? Were do you think Ford got the loans when they "Hauked" The Blue Oval for thier Way Foward version 3.0!

Got the 10:30 letter 2 days ago, this one I got today telling me to disregard the previous letter.

Just got the news in the mail. Start time for the afternoon shift is now 1:30 pm on Sept. 22. Not 10:30 A.M. Now this is for paint. I dont know if its for final.

Are you that hard up! What A Fuckin LOOOOSER!!!!

Hey checking the calander and we should be calling MARVIN for the weeks ending Aug. 9th and 16th. But I did not recieve anything from the state telling me to call. Did anybody else get something or am I just messed up on my dates

I got a cabin in Lakes of the North. If your up for the challenge, try Black Forrest! It will kick yor ASS!!! Or try the Valley course at Black Forrest, or Dear Run at Lakes of the North. The Valley will use every club in your bag! The Run from the black is 0ver 7000 yards!!! ( Torey Pines at the open was 7600 Yards) So its looooong!!!! Hey Injoy it fellas! Its like summer vacation all over again!! And the ones that hate? Oh well I dont give a shit about your problems anyways! You dont give a shit about my bills or family, and I dont change my beliefs or life styles to make you feel better about your self! To Quote the the great Joe wind Bag ............It is what it is !!!!! All I can say IS FORE!!!! And were is the Hot Bear Cart Girl!!!

Chrysler and GM are the competition too! And Toyota is building factories in the U.S.! Unlike Ford who is sending everything to Mexico! We just need to get into these plants and get them to become union shops!

Toyota says it will build Prius hybrid at new U.S. plant, cuts truck production by Christine Tierney / The Detroit News Responding to dramatic shifts in the U.S. auto market, Toyota Motor Corp. has revised its production plans and will now build its Prius hybrid car at a new plant in Mississippi that was originally slated to produce SUVs. Toyota also will concentrate production of its large pickups, now assembled at two U.S. plants in Texas and Indiana, at its factory in San Antonio, the Japanese automaker said Thursday. The Princeton, Ind., plant will build the Highlander SUV that had been slated for the Mississippi factory now under construction. Beginning on Aug. 8, Toyota will halt production of Tundra full-size pickups and Sequoia large SUVs for close to three months. Advertisement "The truck market continues to worsen, so unfortunately we must temporarily suspend production," Jim Wiseman, a spokesman for Toyota's North American manufacturing operations, said in a statement. Toyota's moves reflect dramatic shifts in the U.S. market driven by $4-a-gallon fuel prices. Light truck sales plunged 28 percent in the first half of the year and now account for 44 percent of the U.S. auto market, down from 55 percent six months ago. Detroit's automakers already have revised their production plans, with General Motors Corp. announcing the closure of four truck plants in an acknowledgment that the shifts in demand seem permanent. During previous oil shocks, Toyota had increased its presence in the U.S. market. But after launching a full-size Tundra early last year, Toyota has been buffeted in recent months. Toyota's U.S. sales are down 6.8 percent this year, including a 14.7 percent decline in its highly profitable Lexus luxury vehicles. In June, the automaker's U.S. sales tumbled 21.4 percent, even more than the overall market, as dealers found themselves stocked with Toyota and Lexus trucks they couldn't sell, and short of small, fuel-efficient cars. Sales of the Tundra plunged 53 percent in June. According to J.P. Morgan's Tokyo-based analyst Takaki Nakanishi, Toyota has truck inventories equivalent to 99 days' supply, well above desirable levels. The halt in truck output, announced Thursday morning to the factory workers, should help Toyota reduce those inventories. In addition to the workers at the truck plant, workers at an engine plant in Alabama will be affected, too. Toyota said they would be provided work, but the company has laid off or will lay off some 750 temporary workers at the plants. Under the production adjustments announced Thursday, Toyota is scheduled to begin production of the Prius hybrid in Blue Springs, Miss., in 2010. It will consolidate full-size pickup truck production in San Antonio in the spring of 2009 and start making Highlander SUVs in Princeton in the fall of that year. The automaker warned investors in May that its annual profits would fall for the first time in seven years because of weakening demand in the United States, where analysts estimate Toyota generates half its earnings. You can reach Christine Tierney at (313) 222-1463 I doubt that these employees get any type of sub pay! And god knows what the unemployment benifits are in these states? Bet they are rethinking this whole not wanting a union thing now!

Hey I golf on my time off too! Did you pay for his golf? Or maybe he is just like the rest of us ( with a life out side of Ford! ) Who's enjoying his free time! What is he superman, maybe hes not suppose to even sleep? Im Pro union, but You cant say that we are the eventers of the weekend, and not expect the rest of the world to see are view! So he makes a SHIT TON MONEY MORE THAN US!!! I ask you one question? WHOS NAME IS ON THE BUILDING???? Give him a Break I would AWOL in a heartbeat too play pebble beach!!! And I have PERFECT ATTENDENCE!!! Dont judge a man for something you would do in a heartbeat! ( if you played golf )

Hey fellas, just remember this shit when election time is here in march!!! You know its just a matter of time before these shit sniffin cock roaches are lined up outside the gates asking for are votes promising us the world!!! But just remember, ACTIONS speak louder than words!!! And in this sorry excuse of a union its " NO ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS!!! I say lets put everyone of these no good crooks back on the line and let them see the " utopia" they have created All I have to say to them is ROTATE

So, how many people will get screwed on unemployment and sub pay this time? My guess............FUCKIN ALOT!!!

"The grass is always greener from the other side". I thought the same about my last plant! From what I gather talking to the young guys that were here the last election, "Ole Joe blow windbag" Talked a big game from his high low. Telling these young guys anything they wanted to hear!! We at MTP did the same with Sam Caincross, when he promised that if we voted for him he would get us are 3 crew back, then when we voted for him he said the 3 crew is not comming back and he said " I told the company that they can work you as many saturdays as they want" My only beef with DTP voting in "ole windbag" is he wasnt even a district commitee.........Let alone a barganning Rep? I mean at least Caincross was a Barganning repwhen we voted for him!!! If I am still here in march ( As I have said, come hell or high water i am out of the Rouuuuuge......through buyout or call back) I will ONLY vote for someone who IS NOT from DTP!!!! If you want my vote, you had to have been moved to DTP in the last year!!!! Anybody else has been " INFECTED" with the bullshit this union has been trying to feed us!!!! :happy feet:

I dint think Joe could count that high??? :bowdown: I guess you learn something everyday :party2:

Not a rough time! ITS JUST MY HOME!!!!! I left alot of good friends and family!!! True the Rouuuuge has a fucked up lazy ass union, but it has some great people with alot of potential!!!! Im just home sick, and even though I am DTP.......................I WILL ALWAYS BE MTP IN MY HEART FOREVER!!!!

Yes but so is chicago! In The DETNEWS tuesday a source inside the company said that the company wishes to keep MTP open!!! They have are a Flex Plant and There Paint shop is the BEST In the company!!! Thats why all prototypes ( fusion, Flex, 08 escape, 09 F 150, the aviator, and the edge) Were painted there why they were in R&D. I have heard that Avon lakes Body Shop is outdated. MTP has one of the most versitle in the game 2nd only to the Rouuuuuuuge! Hey look.........I HOPE WE ALL STAY OPEN!!!! But I came from MTP in april to The shithole known as the Rouuuuuuuuuuge!!!! MTP is just to valuble to Ford! As far as my post about comming up to Detroit it was a joke because I know how much you Fuckeyes hate this state!!!!

Hey think about it......Avon Lake is 2 hours from detroit, (going at my speed) and you guys will be able to follow your Product!!! MTP is only 15 minutes from Ann Arbor!!! :shades: And 30 minutes from Comerica Park and Ford Field!!! You guys from Ohio will love it here!!! I mean you guys will FINALLY get the chance to actually feel what its like to celebrate a Championship.................Rather than being the Bridesmade :happy feet: :happy feet: ......Think about it........And yes the Lions do suck...........But at least are "REAL" Team is not in Baltimore

Sorry Bro responded to the wrong post....My Bad! borg.bmp

It doesnt matter who he was!!!! ( management, or Hourly)...........He was married with kids, and my Dad knew him.......(Good Man, God Bless) My heart and prayers go to him and his loved ones!!!

Thanks brother!!! Its great to see that solidarity is still alive in the 21st century!!! What DTP is doing is a crime...........And it kills me as a 4th generation UAW member to see how "low" we have sunk! I understand the VEBA! I say Fire every worthless piece of shit that dont come to work, or goes on medical every summer!!! But when you have senority brothers and sisters, in good faith, being told that they are layed off this week, and have to collect unemployment?................Why low senority gets to work........is a fuckin CRIME!!!! This is what the UAW should stand for!!! Senority employees that come to work every day, do there jobs better than anyone, not to mention have the up most pride doing it!!!!! AND GET SHIT ON BY THERE UNION!!!! CALL ME WHAT YOU WILL............BUT THE UAW IS DEAD!!!! .............LONG LIVE THE DRUG ADDICTED, AWOL, MEDICAL CASE, WITH LOW SENORITY, THAT WILL ALWAYS HAVE A BETTER JOB THAN YOU!!!!

Better hope that Granholm gets a budget!!! Because if there is no budget by monday.............THE STATE SHUTS DOWN!!!! NO UNEMPLOYMENT!!!! Granholm said she cant cut a check to anybody or for anything without a budget!!! I imagine you call marvin not this comming week but the next??? Good luck getting that Unemployment!!! The company knew what they were doing!!! But the Fuckin Union is Fuckin Clueless!!! Like working C-crew 10.7 in paint............But layoff b crew???? Face it, if this is the last place to close..........Oh well!!! At that point, we will all be fucked anyways!!! Up that Buyout Billy Boy!!! :happy feet:

It sounds like you must be one of the guys with 4 years senority that old joe windbag is hiding on A crew!!! Thats the problem with DTP, everybody is out for themselves!!! Instead of making this local inforce the contract you clowns think its OK for a shift to not get paid next week, call marvin the following tuesday, and hope these idiots get sub right............which I doubt, remember shut down???? Whatever happend to SOLIDARITY????? Trust me if they offer a new buyout................IM GONE!!! Its a damn shame what the "great" local 600 is!!!! I guess "it is what it is"

Brother I work C crew!!! Im just being a true Union brother and saying that the B crew is being "Fucked"! They could of easily brought in B crew for 4 hours tuesday, and they would have gotten short work week!!! But what The "Rouge" did was against the contract!!!.......Plain and simple!!! Stand up for the rights of yourself, and your brothers and sisters!!! I truley see why DTP was rebuilt! Too crush the union!!! I look at the senority list, and I see that alot of these people have less than 2000 senority.......and all they care about is getting over on the senority transplants!..............FUCKIN SAD!!!!