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I would love to see that

This is absolutely insane. Way to reward people for striking and punishing those of us who worked the entire time https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2023/11/03/ford-strike-laid-off-uaw-extra-pay-deal/71426913007/#loix06yl9d8xim96qq8

Because it’s Ford and they’ve never operated that way. CD4 is/was a phenomenal platform that could have carried on longer had they not branched off to CD6/C2.

Im not entirely sure of the setup but apparently they can operate independently of each other.

At this point it’s basically a unicorn

They’re losing 2 shifts… kind of speaks for itself.

Ranger production would have still been very low without the strike.

Sounds like Stamping. Presses are loud, everything is covered in oil, the floor is always shaking and there’s almost constant sirens from the die cranes. I’m enjoying it so far though.

In order to transfer between plants the plant which the bids will go up in first must have been deemed as having surplus of manpower. The union and company will get together and decide how many bids to post. Then once the bids are posted there’s a period if usually around 5 days to sign up for a bid. Seniority rules from there.

I can see that. I remember there being one area in the repair hole in paint where the Lincoln bodies were too long to fit more than 1 at a time in.

The entire Rouge complex is being deemed surplus upon ratification of the new contract. REV-C is dropping one shift, possibly 2 and DTP will remain a 2-shift operation. We’ll see how long Ranger/Bronco demand holds up but I don’t see us being a permanent 3-shift operation. I see it lasting until probably around the end of the decade at most.

Possibly. I don’t know for sure, I never went to that part of paint shop when I was there.

Some of their stamping work came to us at ISA. They ran 2 models there at FRAP for years with stamping still in operation.

That depends. I never set foot in the body shop over there but if it’s set up even close to the way it is at MAP, they could very easily build the line for this new product in the empty half of the area without having to shut down the Mustang line at all. Paint shop is mostly a matter of programming robots. Any adjustments needing to be made to carriers and skillets in Final that can be done over time on weekends or regularly scheduled downtime.

They probably didn’t include it in the contract because the program is still subject to approval but I’m sure there’s an earmark in the corporate budget somewhere for them to announce when the time comes.

That’s not really considered a new program though, it’s an extension of S650. The contract specifically says it’s a new program.

Still don’t see how, we can’t get enough parts to run 2

Union: zero concessions this contract Also union: no back pay for people not on strike LMAO can’t make it up.

I told you all that at least 6 months ago…

https://uaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HourlyHighlighter-Ford_FINAL.pdf Heres the entire contract: https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/098/799/original/Ford-Changed-Pages-2023.pdf

Full contract details will come out at 7pm today. Livestream with Fain and VP Chuck Browning will be on Boomerbook, YouTube, and X formerly Twitter.

No, July 2015 to around May 2016.

Try calling NESC. The number is 800-248-4444.

We all know Hackett was a buffoon in way over his head in an industry he knew nothing about.

yeah I really hate that. Ford must really be confident they won’t be closing any facilities any time soon.