Oac98

It’s true! That’s the interior! Plain and simple.

AGREED!! Also, don’t post it on Facebook!!!

I heard that the guy who took these pictures of the Nautilus interior was indeed fired. Horrible but it’s not very smart to post pics of unreleased vehicles. Dearborn is serious about that stuff!

Hope the redesign the escape to! It’s bland as hell!

Thanks, I really hope so.

Of course good ole Jerry wants to deflect blame to the membership if this all falls through. I believe a settlement will be made with Ford. Just hope it isn’t some excessively concessionary BS!

My honest feeling is hope and skepticism. I’m hopeful that we will get a new product but I’m skeptical I’m regards to the no concession stance. We’ve all heard that before then the union buckled. I believe Ford actually wants to maintain their small manufacturing footprint in Canada.

Ya Cami was down for a month due to strike and nothing much if anything was achieved. Then that horrible GM deal with Oshawa in 2016 when all they got was a half done old Silverado sent to Oshawa for final assembly! When I heard that I knew Oshawa was done! I hope Unifor does a better job! Lots of plants closed during CAW times too and joining with unifor as you said hasn’t gotten us much further. Leverage has been diminished, no autopact anymore, globalization, labor costs, hell even covid.

Dias is all bark no damn bite!

I was thinking that he’ll maybe we will get the mysterious Fusion Active but that might be wishful thinking.

Thanks man, I hope we are able to strike a decent deal with the mighty FOMOCO. They’re also seeking a 3 year contract which I find interesting. It would’ve been nice to have ratified from last year since 2020 has been a mess! I guess UNIFOR feels better leveraged for bargain when UAW does. UAW will always supersede Unifor in my opinion. Even though ford has been in Canada for over 100 years it’s an American company at the end of the day.

Unifor is also trying to go after a 3 year deal to coincide with UAW bargaining.

Jerry Dias just announced that Ford is the target for negotiations for the Unifor contract. Now we will have a clearer picture of what they will do with OAC.

Thanks for the breakdown.

Hydro costs in Ontario are high I know that much. Wages???? Similar right with exchange rate??

How is it 3 percent more expensive to build in Canada with our 76 cent value to the greenback???

Every damn contract is securing product. Phase out flex/mkt perfectly at the end of 2019. Then supposedly nautilus done July 2024. All around contract time! UAW gets good contract we get screwed over with some damn pandemic and fight for scraps. Our labor costs are no higher than yours. Our dollar is shit, I think we deserve something. You guys got 9000 signing bonus US. That’s like 12000 Canadian I’ll be surprised if we get the same 6000 Canadian we got the last time. I’m sure Jerry Dias is happy there won’t be no ratification meeting due to COVID, we booed the hell out of him last time!!!

Jerry and us need more than good luck lol!

Ya a month long strike that didn’t achieve much more when the smoke settled. GM CAMI went on strike for a month up here and then GM threatened to move all equinox production to Mexico and Spring Hill. They closed Oshawa anyways which was gonna happen eventually anyways. Jerry Dias wants our contract to be 3 years to align with UAW! How about that one?? Doubt that will happen.

They would’ve had your head forsure if you did that. Wise decision not to share that

I’ll try and find out what the penalty was. Yes that is a huge no no! Taking a picture of a new product with your name on the posting on Facebook?!?! You guys all know FOMOCO’s policy of in plant pics!

Unifor chose GM first last time and it resulted in GM Oshawa getting bodies from Fort Wayne to continue old Silverado then BOOM GM breached the contract and closed Oshawa before contract expired! Anyways since GM CAMI doesn’t negotiate when we do I think the target will either be us or FCA. New product is Unifors most pressing agenda. Didn’t that Dittles guy get into some trouble???

I heard that this guy got in big shit for posting this on Facebook! Dearborn was unhappy and it has been removed from the Ford Oakville Workers site as well!! That’s what I was told. I don’t know the punishment.

Very similar. I can’t go take any pics, I’m not gonna get fired they have a no pictures in the plant policy here. It’s not even out yet so that my info. I know you didn’t ask I’m just putting that out there lol.

Yes it’s somewhat similar sits abit differently obviously because of the two different vehicles