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@ice-capades You forgot to include the “well have more on…” form paragraph ? in all seriousness I can’t say I’m surprised since literally everyone is rethinking their BEV plans.

Man if that offer was out there a month ago it would have been pretty tempting.

Cut production

The people from the 2nd and 3rd shifts that are being cut from REVC are coming to MAP this summer at some point….

How TF is that supposed to work when most of them are coming to MAP for this mythical 3rd shift?

On a completely unrelated note, it drives me nuts how ford authority ends every damn article with the same fill-in-the-blank form paragraph.

they did?

Doesn’t matter. 9 times out of 10 they’ll have their jobs back after 90 days, often times with back pay and almost always with no loss of seniority.

This is 100 percent true. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard the phrase “it works on paper” over the years when something is FUBAR on the line, I could probably retire comfortably today. IDGAF what your paper says when the real world says it doesn’t work.

probably. I have no clue what it is, I don’t abuse the system.

Not the way they used to. It’s only a few days at most now

Hell, it was 65 degrees here last Friday and there was a shit ton of people who called in that day.

I will give the union credit where credit is due, they’re trying to set the market rate and in doing so actually making serous attempts to organize foreign plants down south. Whether or not the market can bear it, or the organization attempts are even successful remains to be seen. I am skeptical.

my observation is Shawn Fain is incapable of that.

The problem with that is there are real world factors that are working against the general population right now including inflation, wages that have largely remained stagnant for decades, and the disappearance of any kind of retirement plans from many workplaces. I’m fortunate enough to have a very good 401k plan (even before the improvements in the 2023 CBA) and while I wasn’t doing terribly at what I was making (until I started getting short shifted to death last summer) new hires were hurting making barely more than what a lot of fast food places are paying these days. What I’ve found in talking to a lot of people outside of the UAW bubble is a lot of older people (aka. the people in charge now) are either unaware at how much different things are or they just don’t care. They’ve made theirs and are close to a comfortable retirement and don’t really care to do anything to help those coming in behind them and people my age and younger are very frustrated by that.

He seems to be taking the writings of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin to heart.

And the power hungry big head UAW president wants a nationwide general strike on 5/1/28.

You've referenced that several times. I don’t expect that for at least another 6-8 years with how notorious Tesla is for launch delays.

There’s not a corporation on the planet that will turn down higher margins regardless of how much it pinches the customers as long as the investors are happy

So they took an actually useful feature hardly anyone uses away and kept one that’s useless that nobody uses. that’s some powerful logic right there

Amazon is doing that. They just partnered with BP to build a hydrogen fueling station right around the corner from where I live. I’m not sure what exactly the trucks are for, a lot of the local delivery here is their ICE vans (mostly Transits and ProMasters) and the trucks they park there are the bigger box trucks.

Don't forget CAP was on strike for a few weeks too. That had to have pushed the timetable for the MY2024 buildout back a few weeks.

Haha great minds

Translation: there wasn’t enough money in the budget for the refresh to completely redo the entire IP.

Not sure, I just came back to Body this week after being in Stamping for the last 4(ish) months.