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Well, let's hear the results people...I've been getting texts about Michigan Assembly voting it down by 56 votes? Any other plants have results?

Here's an update from my friend Grimace... Detroit News March 30th 2009 “We are competitive now,” Mulally told The Detroit News in an interview Friday. “The downturn is a temporary thing. We just have to make it through it.” Sources told The Detroit News that the UAW concessions alone will save Ford a good chunk of change, as the new deal lowers Ford’s labor costs below $50 an hour, on par with foreign competition. Bloomberg News April 1, 2011Ford Motor Co. (F) raised Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally’s compensation 48 percent to $26.5 million for 2010. Mulally received $1.4 million in salary, $9.45 million in bonus and $15.7 million in stock, option awards and other pay, Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford said today in a filing. Ford last month gave Mulally $56.5 million in stock and Bill Ford $42.4 million as a reward for the automaker’s turnaround. “Alan Mulally is a great CEO, but I don’t think any human being in the world deserves that much money,” Bob King (UAW President) said March 22 of Mulally’s $56.5 million stock award. “It’s outrageous.” Bloomberg News April 1, 2011 United Auto Workers President Bob King will negotiate new contracts this year with Ford, General Motors Co. (GM) and Chrysler Group LLC. While the agreements don’t expire until September, King has said workers must be rewarded for the $7,000 to $30,000 in concessions they each gave up since 2005 to help the automakers survive. Seattle Weekly April 11, 2011 With the era of CEO "sacrifice" officially over and the UAW heading into new contract negotiations, union president Bob King is taking a different tone. He calls the Ford chief's momentous pay increase "morally wrong." Detroit News May 6, 2011 Ford Motor Co., set to enter contract talks with the United Auto Workers, said its U.S. labor costs are now $8 an hour higher than the mostly nonunion U.S. factories of foreign automakers such as Hyundai Motor Co. Ford, on a website it posted last month, said it pays about $58 an hour in wages and benefits to its 40,600 U.S. hourly workers, $3 more than the automaker said last year. This a run-up stab at the contract talks, they'll be back pedaling and crying foul until it's settled, then release a report to the media afterwards about how well it went for them in order to make the share-holders happy. Read more: http://scottrlap.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=9919#ixzz1LwUk7D2T

Rumor has it KCAP will be getting a new product while their current products move to LAP (Escape/Mariner) and KTP (F-Series). Ranger maybe? Rumor I heard from an engineer... I see them gettting something with the Ranger...they can't stop selling the small truck. Hopefully, they will finally redesign it once profitability becomes the norm again.

People are pissed...many are finally fed up with it all. Last time we opened the contract, LAP lost almost 700 jobs but were promised it would not happen. Seeing the I-UAW get raises and keeping COLA while we keep losing stuff is a joke.

I truly see this being voted down finally by Local 862...but many are still scared. The "happy to have a job" crowd will show up in support. I honestly see it about 62% against, but I would love to see it like KCAP.

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521 signed up to transfer...they are taking 468 of them. First 110 report Monday for orientation.

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Why fear reality? Why not bring it up on a "message board". We had a union brother kill himself in his front yard during the holiday break while his family was inside. Tough times are here, but I believe rock bottom is still ahead. We need discuss these events openly to keep others from doing the same. The only way to avoid someone doing the same is through communication. If you know a co-worker that is going thru hard times, get them help. Talk to them, have a union rep/ESSP rep, someone talk to them. But to act like nothing happened and everything is A-ok is ignorant at best.

We first heard KTP needed 570 people; now it seems they want approx. 700. That will leave only 1200 people at LAP. Sounds like LAP will go to one shift until they are retooled in 2010-11. They are going to survey everyone, then force the youngest after exhausting survey...fyi.

Is this the final number? 28 from MTP coming to KTP? There are many of us at LAP that are wanting to transfer to KTP, so hopefull we will get our chance. I live in Mt. Washington, great little town. You can look at Taylorsville...lots of land with the homes...Lookup and down I-64 (east of Shelbyville) and I-71 (Lagrange-north)...lots of small towns offering what you are looking for.

I didn't know we were still open now. LMAO I have worked one week in the last 3 months, but we are supposed to return next week. Homerhero's post is the best in the thread...that's the way everyone should reply to this bogus rumor. But worry not, once Obama gets in office, overtime for everyone with lots of new jobs.

Very good info...number might be approaching 150 now.

We are not currently rotating shifts of any sort...both been working with occasional down weeks for both. KTP has been rotating shifts, but not LAP. This is/was great news for LAP. Instead of a HUGE layoff, we will rotate shifts, but everyone will work days, enabling them to only utilize one management team. Should be interesting...it's all subject to change at any second. We all know that.

So, is this the ANNUAL SPORT TRAC MEET? They still keep this hush hush...I will never understand why they don't include the hourly workers in this festivity. I helped numerous members of www.mysporttrac.com find hotels, etc... the first year they held this meet. It would be nice to see some of them again. Come over to www.scottrlap.proboards75.com and let us know the details of your plans while in town. Thanks...and be safe traveling to Louisville.

I also believe they will come after our wages eventually. We all know they will restructure at least twice during our new contract. When they open the contract, plant closures will be announced along with attacking our wages. Since our pension is entirely based on years of service and our hourly rate, I can not agree to any pay cut...and will not. Even if they only ask for a 10% cut, I still vote HELL NO! That will be the day I sign up for a buyout when they come after our wages.

We have been on 4-10s for almost a year now...losing a shift mid-June, looks like they may put us back on 5 days this fall with a couple of scheduled Saturdays. I love how they can get rid of a shift and go to OT when they want now. It's all bullshit. We have vehicle(s) coming in 2010 supposedly, so I future may look brighter than KTP's at the moment. If we get something that gets better fuel economy, we will be running strong again for a while.

Honestly, don't recall all of the highlights, nor do I have the booklet in front of me at the moment. Other members will have to help me on that one. We had our dock jobs outsourced, they were able to get them back, but only 30-40 fork jobs...but hell, it's jobs added. Other than that, I honestly don't recall much. Local contract worries more about "local" crap obviously...like ice machines, covered parking for motorcycles, better heat relief programs, etc... Bunch of mumbo jumbo if you ask me. Threat of closing made us pass the local? Not even close. We have about 600 people getting ready to be laid off and it still passed. We had less people vote than are about to get laid off. LMAO

Still can't wait to hear the LOWLIGHTS...if we ever do?

73% FOR, 27% AGAINST-THE AVERAGE JOES 56% FOR, 44% AGAINST-SKILLED TRADES

I hope to be coming out there with my 02/93 seniority. I believe it will get to me. I don't see that many people willing to transfer; there will be some forced to go out there in my opinion.

I heard that only 5 people that came from KTP agreed to go back. Now they are saying that they are going to give people with seniority and opportunity to go to KTP. We'll see. Won't be many take it, my guess about 30 or 40. The other 70-80 will come from the youngest being forced to go back. Least that's what we are hearing. Thanks for the information!

Can anyone provide some insight into the seniority at your plant? I know a couple of people that have put in for a transfer to KTP with 06/1990 and 02/1993...where would they fall on your current seniority list. Someone was trying to tell me that they would both fall in the top 10-15%, I didn't think KTP was that young? Any and all info would be greatly appreciated. What are the start times of the current shifts? Are they adding shifts in body and paint? We were told our transfers had to be out there by June 23rd, what's the rush? Why do you guys need people so bad? Thanks!

Congrats on voting the contract down. I hope you get the voting of team leaders back, if that's the holdup.