Oac98

Thanks, things are extremely slow right now and the plant is still under construction. We re getting called back in groups every few days. It’s a massive change in there now the layout from the old edge nautilus mkt flex days.

We, Ford of Canada have been picked three times straight by unifor. There will be NO strike! We’re just starting to get back to the plant and it is slow as hell in there as we are only in TT2 phase. NOV 2 is the ok to ship date right now. We aren’t going to strike Ford and Unifor are a partnership as far as I’m concerned. Everytime unifor says they’re gonna strike at the last minute a deal is reached. We are in no position to strike for fuck all right now. I’m just happy to have just got back in the building. Also, the union wants to start negotiations early with ford. I ll keep you guys posted.

Unifor will ram a contract through quickly, we always do

They said they’re looking for more export markets. We all know it won’t be Europe and I get your question. How many markets really other than the Middle East, South America maybe Australia do they have for that vehicle outside of North America. I only based my statement based on their own words. I’m just glad to be going back, let the chips fall where they may.

That’s a good point, maybe for now it’s just Canada and international out of Oakville

Well 140000 F series are sold in Canada and I bet f-150 is at least 100000 of that. I’m pretty sure some will still go to the US and they say it’s a multi energy plant so maybe there will be an EREV. We will find out what they plan on doing when the contract negotiations are settled.

I can only wonder if some of that is to cover the tariff hit that will be there whenever they start shipping. Maybe the first batch go to Canada and international who knows.

Supposedly this contribution comes with a 2038 commitment. At first It was at total of 590 cad from Ontario government and federal government of Canada. 295 million each. No word if anything changed with the Ontario governments contribution. Ford is also the pick to go first for 2026 unifor contract negotiations. We found out today.

And thanks for the well wishes.

I agree with you as 140000 F series sold in Canada last year. Your idea really sounds like the most logical way to do it. Maybe that’s their long term plan but who knows anyways.

Soon, most of the plant will be back by end of June I still don’t know when actual job 1 is. The stamping plant won’t be fully ready til November. So BOC and Buffalo will do our stamping til then. One of our presses is actual at BOC right now.

Lol, thank God it wasn’t the bullet train three row after all. Sadly it would’ve failed miserably and we would’ve been in an even worse predicament. In the near term at least this plan looks like a better idea.

These units are first phase units, TT build phase. Only launch team and team leaders are at the plant along with MP and L and quality people. The majority of us are still off built will be back in a few months for full production. June 15th most people will get called back for three weeks of safety and in class training then possibly laid off again til whenever were needed.

I’m not going to slander the uaw, our union is in a weaker position and a deal will easily be reached. Unifor is more cooperative I believe when it’s comes to negotiations. The longest strike I’ve seen was the one month strike at GM cami in 2017. Now the plant sits idle since GM Brightdrop failed miserably.

I’ve heard people from Oakville suggest that’s what Ford should do. They sell 140000 F series a year in Canada as you know. How would that sit with the UAW? There is space for two stamping presses, one is installed and I was told the other one is in blueovalcity at the moment and they’re using it to help Oakville stamping as of now and obviously Buffalo stamping is making parts as well. The stamping plant will not be fully operational til later this year. What you’re saying is a great idea we will see what Ford plans to do. Our union contract is up this year so it’s negotiation time again.