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Unfortunately, all of what you are talking about at your plant is happening at about every other plant too, as far as cronyism, friends and family perks, etc. We need to clean house across the board and put union officials in office that have our best interests in mind instead of their own.

This guy is a dumb ass. He's gotten way too much exposure already. Let him die.

I've found that Ford Motor Credit is a lot harder to get financed with than a credit union. I'd go with that instead.

Getting back our cost of living would be HUGE and better than any raise. Also, although a raise for the first tier workers is overdue and well-deserved, I think the priority for us is to bring the 2nd tier workers wages up closer to ours. If we don't do that, the 2nd tier workers won't have any incentive to protect our benefits when we're retired. Lets remember, it's them that will be voting on our benefits after we're retired, not us. They need to think about protecting their benefits (AND ours) when THEY retire instead of giving up retirees benefits for a couple dollars an hour because they don't make near as much. Just my opinion. The best scenario is getting rid of 2nd tier altogether, but we know that isn't going to happen.

"We run the first Fusion through trim and final on Wednesday, and then we will train on it." That was posted by Deflep1 on another thread a couple days ago.

Unbelievable.

Maybe the "donut" thing got old?

Wow, I thought the General was back for a second.

Hey Jerrymaker, why don't you just do your fucking job and quit hating on everyone else. You're obviously just jealous. Stop being a pussy and shut the fuck up. Saline will be at assembly plants soon enough, fucko, then they'll deal with your stupid mouth. Hahahahaha

You fuckers love to hate on Saline. Funny shit! Hahahahaha

That's not true. Plenty of the tradesmen have said they'd welcome brother and sister tradesmen at Saline. It might help get some of the contractors out of there.

Didn't we vote down the mechanical work teams in the last modification attempt? Why are they in here now? I like how it says efficiencies will not result in the direct and IMMEDIATE layoff of mechanical trades. Notice it doesn't say that layoffs won't happen later down the road because of them. "When mechanical work teams are launched, team members will receive the negotiated wage rate (nonpersonalized) of the highest classification on the team. Skilled trades efficiencies achieved as a direct result of the implementation of mechanical work teams will not result in the direct and immediate layoff of mechanical trades."

Because they're getting compensated for it?

Yeah the server is overloaded.

It seems to me that something has to be done to make things more equal between 1st and 2nd tier workers. If not, then our future retirement will be in jeopardy. The incentive for 2nd tier to give up retiree benefits in the future for increased pay/benefits for themselves while still working is too great. I believe we're going to fuck ourselves if we don't give them an incentive NOT to screw us to better themselves and their families.

Throwing all that money overseas and they'll still be crying poor and give us more wages and benefits at contract time. BS.

The union in every plant has no power anymore. It's called going into self-preservation mode and the union is going to make sure it survives whether it protects our rights or not.

COLA was a big loss. We really need to get that back. I think the company will push for the trades teams like they tried to get in the last modification that got voted down. I also think the union will go along with it. :|

I actually worked at a UAW plant that made chemicals back in the 80s and we used to get a free turkey voucher every year. We also got our birthday off with pay. They closed the doors in 1989. Crazy, huh?

Oh come on! You couldn't think of one juicy rumor to feed us?

The company doesn't like it when employees like their supervisor, even though the supervisor is getting maximum effort out of his employees because he has their respect because he sticks up for them. HIgh morale in employees will produce much more than low morale anytime. You'd think they'd teach that in business 101 instead of teaching them to say, "the beatings will continue until morale improves". If you like your supervisor, chances are he won't be around long. They fire the ones that get along with their employees and keep the assholes who get nothing out of their employees. This company would be doing so much better if they could get this premise.

I don't think people at Saline think the plant is the cornerstone, they just know that the IP is a very integral part of a vehicle and if the quality isn't there then that spells trouble for the automaker. Some of the processes there are very specialized and you can't just throw the work to just anyone out there to do. It's the one thing that the customer first sees when he gets in a car and the one thing he'll see every time he gets in it. Seems it's a pretty important piece to the puzzle. I don't know why people have to be haters here and think the worst about people. It's called pride and we should all have it no matter what our job is or where we're at, right? Aren't we all in this together?

Oh yeah, people at AAI knowing about it before anyone at Saline would make perfect sense! The only thing I've heard here is that JCI is looking at us again. But again, just a rumor. I won't believe anything (even a guaranteed sale *wink wink*) until I see it happen!

I think Virg will make a great Governor. He believes in the working American and their rights. I think he's smart and savvy. He'll be getting my support.

"Our plant manager wants to save money on 4-10's, but we're not getting our production numbers and we're killing Body, Paint & Maintenance in the process ( and they are PISSED at him!)," Since when do they care if we're pissed at them?