Sharp Shooter Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 The Detroit Free Press has a pretty good write up of the new work and bonuses negotiated by the UAW-Ford team. The Highlights and contract will go into further detail for sure. http://www.freep.com/article/20111004/BUSINESS0102/111004010/UAW-Ford-deal-highlights-5-750-jobs-entry-level-raises-6-000-bonus-plus-profit-sharing?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE UAW-Ford deal highlights: 5,750 jobs; entry-level raises; $6,000 bonus plus profit sharing 1:54 PM, Oct. 4, 2011 | 179 Comments BY BRENT SNAVELY,GREG GARDNER ANDCHRISSIE THOMPSON DETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITERS The UAW and Ford’s tentative agreement creates 5,750 entry-level U.S. jobs, raises hourly wages for workers hired after September 2007 to $19.28 and pulls forward a profit-sharing payment that, when added to a $6,000 ratification bonus, will give veteran workers about $10,000 by the end of the year in addition to their regular pay. The agreement raises the hourly wage for workers hired after 2007 to $19.28 by the end of the contract, the UAW said today in a contract summary released to reporters. Those workers currently make about $15.50 an hour. Ford will also offer buyouts of $50,000 to production workers and $100,000 to skilled-trades workers, in an attempt to open jobs for more entry-level employees. John Fleming, Ford's executive vice president of global manufacturing, said Ford is announcing the 5,750 jobs for the first time. The contract also includes 6,250 created or preserved jobs that Ford has already announced. Newly created jobs will go to workers hired at the company's lower, entry-level wage, he said this morning at a press conference at Ford’s Dearborn headquarters. The contract would guarantee four $1,500 lump-sum payments in so-called “inflation protection,” in place of cost-of-living adjustments. The pact offers job security for workers at plants in Flat Rock and Kansas City and ties profit-sharing to Ford’s North American earnings, instead of just income from its U.S. operations. Under the new profit-sharing formula, Ford workers will receive an average payout of $3,752 in November based on Ford’s North American profit for the first half of 2011, the UAW said. Each Ford UAW worker also will receive a $250 payment in December for meeting quality objectives. The UAW and Ford reached the agreement early this morning after 10 weeks of bargaining, making Ford the second automaker, after General Motors, to reach a new deal with the union. GM ratified its deal last week, but the UAW may have a challenge selling the Ford agreement to workers, who expected significantly greater gains than their GM counterparts. But UAW President Bob King said UAW local leaders who heard details of the agreement this morning endorsed the tentative contract. “The leadership that was just in here were saying that they don’t have to sell the agreement,” King said this morning at a downtown Detroit press conference. “They feel like this agreement stands on its own.” Under the agreement, Ford’s plant in Flat Rock will add a shift to help build the next-generation Ford Fusion, currently built in Mexico, and continue to build the Ford Mustang in its next generation. That factory will receive a $555 million investment, providing some job security for its 1,600 hourly workers. The plant will stop production of the Mazda6 in coming months. Dearborn Truck assembly will also add a shift, UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles said. Ford will also invest $1 billion at a Kansas City assembly plant, which will build the Transit, Ford's full-size European van and will get a second-shift of F-Series production in 2012. A $128 million investment will be made in Avon Lake, Ohio, to build medium-dutytrucks, whose production was slated for Mexico, a motor-home chassis and the E-Series van cutaway. GM’s deal is expected to preserve or create 6,400 jobs. It also will provide workers with a $5,000 signing bonus, three $1,000 lump-sum payments, an improved profit-sharing plan and a raise of about $3 per hour for entry-level workers over the life of the contract. Ford’s deal gives second-tier workers more of an initial raise and offers workers higher lump-sum payments, but that may not satisfy Ford’s workers. They contend they deserve more because Ford did not accept government assistance. Ford’s UAW workers have retained the right to strike. As a condition of the federal aid to GM and Chrysler, workers there gave up the right to strike and face binding arbitration in the case of an impasse. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uawfactoryrat Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 The Detroit Free Press has a pretty good write up of the new work and bonuses negotiated by the UAW-Ford team. The Highlights and contract will go into further detail for sure. http://www.freep.com...|text|FRONTPAGE UAW-Ford deal highlights: 5,750 jobs; entry-level raises; $6,000 bonus plus profit sharing 1:54 PM, Oct. 4, 2011 | 179 Comments BY BRENT SNAVELY,GREG GARDNER ANDCHRISSIE THOMPSON DETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITERS The UAW and Ford's tentative agreement creates 5,750 entry-level U.S. jobs, raises hourly wages for workers hired after September 2007 to $19.28 and pulls forward a profit-sharing payment that, when added to a $6,000 ratification bonus, will give veteran workers about $10,000 by the end of the year in addition to their regular pay. The agreement raises the hourly wage for workers hired after 2007 to $19.28 by the end of the contract, the UAW said today in a contract summary released to reporters. Those workers currently make about $15.50 an hour. Ford will also offer buyouts of $50,000 to production workers and $100,000 to skilled-trades workers, in an attempt to open jobs for more entry-level employees. John Fleming, Ford's executive vice president of global manufacturing, said Ford is announcing the 5,750 jobs for the first time. The contract also includes 6,250 created or preserved jobs that Ford has already announced. Newly created jobs will go to workers hired at the company's lower, entry-level wage, he said this morning at a press conference at Ford's Dearborn headquarters. The contract would guarantee four $1,500 lump-sum payments in so-called "inflation protection," in place of cost-of-living adjustments. The pact offers job security for workers at plants in Flat Rock and Kansas City and ties profit-sharing to Ford's North American earnings, instead of just income from its U.S. operations. Under the new profit-sharing formula, Ford workers will receive an average payout of $3,752 in November based on Ford's North American profit for the first half of 2011, the UAW said. Each Ford UAW worker also will receive a $250 payment in December for meeting quality objectives. The UAW and Ford reached the agreement early this morning after 10 weeks of bargaining, making Ford the second automaker, after General Motors, to reach a new deal with the union. GM ratified its deal last week, but the UAW may have a challenge selling the Ford agreement to workers, who expected significantly greater gains than their GM counterparts. But UAW President Bob King said UAW local leaders who heard details of the agreement this morning endorsed the tentative contract. "The leadership that was just in here were saying that they don't have to sell the agreement," King said this morning at a downtown Detroit press conference. "They feel like this agreement stands on its own." Under the agreement, Ford's plant in Flat Rock will add a shift to help build the next-generation Ford Fusion, currently built in Mexico, and continue to build the Ford Mustang in its next generation. That factory will receive a $555 million investment, providing some job security for its 1,600 hourly workers. The plant will stop production of the Mazda6 in coming months. Dearborn Truck assembly will also add a shift, UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles said. Ford will also invest $1 billion at a Kansas City assembly plant, which will build the Transit, Ford's full-size European van and will get a second-shift of F-Series production in 2012. A $128 million investment will be made in Avon Lake, Ohio, to build medium-dutytrucks, whose production was slated for Mexico, a motor-home chassis and the E-Series van cutaway. GM's deal is expected to preserve or create 6,400 jobs. It also will provide workers with a $5,000 signing bonus, three $1,000 lump-sum payments, an improved profit-sharing plan and a raise of about $3 per hour for entry-level workers over the life of the contract. Ford's deal gives second-tier workers more of an initial raise and offers workers higher lump-sum payments, but that may not satisfy Ford's workers. They contend they deserve more because Ford did not accept government assistance. Ford's UAW workers have retained the right to strike. As a condition of the federal aid to GM and Chrysler, workers there gave up the right to strike and face binding arbitration in the case of an impasse. BOY DOES THIS POST SMELL LIKE IUAW SPIN CONTROL OR WHAT.JUST REGISTERED AS A MEMBER I SEE. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTP'er Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 (edited) You forgot to add the 10% of your profit sharing going to fund the VEBA !! Also it sez SETTLEMENT BONUS so that grievance everybody was wondering about well there's your settlement and you also get your profit sharing up front for the first 2 qt of 2011. Yeah they hit it out of the park it's the same SH*T that GM got. I think they just pasted a Ford logo on top of GM's highlights Oh one more thing there's a cap on profit sharing !! Edited October 4, 2011 by MTP'er 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
182 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 (edited) You forgot to add the 10% of your profit sharing going to fund the VEBA !! Also it sez SETTLEMENT BONUS Settlement of the contract you dumbass. Settles has said the grievance is still on going and a meeting about it is in November. Edited October 4, 2011 by 182 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oap2ktpvet Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 general maintenence for mechanical trades same crap they tried to pull in 09. No cola no raises no return of 6min per hour breaks im voting no 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTP'er Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Settlement of the contract you dumbass. Settles has said the grievance is still on going and a meeting about it is in November. Hey dumbass just wait and see !! Thought all this was suppose to be taken care of before contract negotiation. Like I said SETTLEMENT BONUS !!!! DUMBASS !! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Real? Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 This contracts a joke. Read the white pages. A joke. You've read the white pages already? Now, that's a fucking joke! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rangersbeengood Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Out of the park!! I say what have they been doing? We are waiting til Nov.for the answer on our grev because they are going to hold it over our heads so we vote yes!! Not only that but how did that get put into the contract? Were we not told it wasn't? The agreement is a joke! Stay tuned and read all the fine print. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sun3 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 The Detroit Free Press has a pretty good write up of the new work and bonuses negotiated by the UAW-Ford team. The Highlights and contract will go into further detail for sure. http://www.freep.com/article/20111004/BUSINESS0102/111004010/UAW-Ford-deal-highlights-5-750-jobs-entry-level-raises-6-000-bonus-plus-profit-sharing?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE UAW-Ford deal highlights: 5,750 jobs; entry-level raises; $6,000 bonus plus profit sharing 1:54 PM, Oct. 4, 2011 | 179 Comments BY BRENT SNAVELY,GREG GARDNER ANDCHRISSIE THOMPSON DETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITERS The UAW and Ford’s tentative agreement creates 5,750 entry-level U.S. jobs, raises hourly wages for workers hired after September 2007 to $19.28 and pulls forward a profit-sharing payment that, when added to a $6,000 ratification bonus, will give veteran workers about $10,000 by the end of the year in addition to their regular pay. The agreement raises the hourly wage for workers hired after 2007 to $19.28 by the end of the contract, the UAW said today in a contract summary released to reporters. Those workers currently make about $15.50 an hour. Ford will also offer buyouts of $50,000 to production workers and $100,000 to skilled-trades workers, in an attempt to open jobs for more entry-level employees. John Fleming, Ford's executive vice president of global manufacturing, said Ford is announcing the 5,750 jobs for the first time. The contract also includes 6,250 created or preserved jobs that Ford has already announced. Newly created jobs will go to workers hired at the company's lower, entry-level wage, he said this morning at a press conference at Ford’s Dearborn headquarters. The contract would guarantee four $1,500 lump-sum payments in so-called “inflation protection,” in place of cost-of-living adjustments. The pact offers job security for workers at plants in Flat Rock and Kansas City and ties profit-sharing to Ford’s North American earnings, instead of just income from its U.S. operations. Under the new profit-sharing formula, Ford workers will receive an average payout of $3,752 in November based on Ford’s North American profit for the first half of 2011, the UAW said. Each Ford UAW worker also will receive a $250 payment in December for meeting quality objectives. The UAW and Ford reached the agreement early this morning after 10 weeks of bargaining, making Ford the second automaker, after General Motors, to reach a new deal with the union. GM ratified its deal last week, but the UAW may have a challenge selling the Ford agreement to workers, who expected significantly greater gains than their GM counterparts. But UAW President Bob King said UAW local leaders who heard details of the agreement this morning endorsed the tentative contract. “The leadership that was just in here were saying that they don’t have to sell the agreement,” King said this morning at a downtown Detroit press conference. “They feel like this agreement stands on its own.” Under the agreement, Ford’s plant in Flat Rock will add a shift to help build the next-generation Ford Fusion, currently built in Mexico, and continue to build the Ford Mustang in its next generation. That factory will receive a $555 million investment, providing some job security for its 1,600 hourly workers. The plant will stop production of the Mazda6 in coming months. Dearborn Truck assembly will also add a shift, UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles said. Ford will also invest $1 billion at a Kansas City assembly plant, which will build the Transit, Ford's full-size European van and will get a second-shift of F-Series production in 2012. A $128 million investment will be made in Avon Lake, Ohio, to build medium-dutytrucks, whose production was slated for Mexico, a motor-home chassis and the E-Series van cutaway. GM’s deal is expected to preserve or create 6,400 jobs. It also will provide workers with a $5,000 signing bonus, three $1,000 lump-sum payments, an improved profit-sharing plan and a raise of about $3 per hour for entry-level workers over the life of the contract. Ford’s deal gives second-tier workers more of an initial raise and offers workers higher lump-sum payments, but that may not satisfy Ford’s workers. They contend they deserve more because Ford did not accept government assistance. Ford’s UAW workers have retained the right to strike. As a condition of the federal aid to GM and Chrysler, workers there gave up the right to strike and face binding arbitration in the case of an impasse. Where are benefits for future and current retirees???? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sun3 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Where are benefits for future and current retirees?!?!?! Could be will are getting taken when we retire! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longball Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Where are benefits for future and current retirees?!?!?! Could be will are getting taken when we retire! excuse me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pioneer Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Dearborn Truck assembly will also add a shift, UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles said. How do you add a shift to a plant that is already running 3? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffamily Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 How do you add a shift to a plant that is already running 3? They're adding a shift of truck production to K.C. , DTP will be down to 2 shifts by shutdown next year . No need for 5 shifts of truck production . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.UAW Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 And insourcing work that was promised in 2007 at KCAP.......What a joke 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichiganTruck_Mafia Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 The Detroit Free Press has a pretty good write up of the new work and bonuses negotiated by the UAW-Ford team. The Highlights and contract will go into further detail for sure. http://www.freep.com/article/20111004/BUSINESS0102/111004010/UAW-Ford-deal-highlights-5-750-jobs-entry-level-raises-6-000-bonus-plus-profit-sharing?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE UAW-Ford deal highlights: 5,750 jobs; entry-level raises; $6,000 bonus plus profit sharing 1:54 PM, Oct. 4, 2011 | 179 Comments BY BRENT SNAVELY,GREG GARDNER ANDCHRISSIE THOMPSON DETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITERS The UAW and Ford’s tentative agreement creates 5,750 entry-level U.S. jobs, raises hourly wages for workers hired after September 2007 to $19.28 and pulls forward a profit-sharing payment that, when added to a $6,000 ratification bonus, will give veteran workers about $10,000 by the end of the year in addition to their regular pay. The agreement raises the hourly wage for workers hired after 2007 to $19.28 by the end of the contract, the UAW said today in a contract summary released to reporters. Those workers currently make about $15.50 an hour. Ford will also offer buyouts of $50,000 to production workers and $100,000 to skilled-trades workers, in an attempt to open jobs for more entry-level employees. John Fleming, Ford's executive vice president of global manufacturing, said Ford is announcing the 5,750 jobs for the first time. The contract also includes 6,250 created or preserved jobs that Ford has already announced. Newly created jobs will go to workers hired at the company's lower, entry-level wage, he said this morning at a press conference at Ford’s Dearborn headquarters. The contract would guarantee four $1,500 lump-sum payments in so-called “inflation protection,” in place of cost-of-living adjustments. The pact offers job security for workers at plants in Flat Rock and Kansas City and ties profit-sharing to Ford’s North American earnings, instead of just income from its U.S. operations. Under the new profit-sharing formula, Ford workers will receive an average payout of $3,752 in November based on Ford’s North American profit for the first half of 2011, the UAW said. Each Ford UAW worker also will receive a $250 payment in December for meeting quality objectives. The UAW and Ford reached the agreement early this morning after 10 weeks of bargaining, making Ford the second automaker, after General Motors, to reach a new deal with the union. GM ratified its deal last week, but the UAW may have a challenge selling the Ford agreement to workers, who expected significantly greater gains than their GM counterparts. But UAW President Bob King said UAW local leaders who heard details of the agreement this morning endorsed the tentative contract. “The leadership that was just in here were saying that they don’t have to sell the agreement,” King said this morning at a downtown Detroit press conference. “They feel like this agreement stands on its own.” Under the agreement, Ford’s plant in Flat Rock will add a shift to help build the next-generation Ford Fusion, currently built in Mexico, and continue to build the Ford Mustang in its next generation. That factory will receive a $555 million investment, providing some job security for its 1,600 hourly workers. The plant will stop production of the Mazda6 in coming months. Dearborn Truck assembly will also add a shift, UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles said. Ford will also invest $1 billion at a Kansas City assembly plant, which will build the Transit, Ford's full-size European van and will get a second-shift of F-Series production in 2012. A $128 million investment will be made in Avon Lake, Ohio, to build medium-dutytrucks, whose production was slated for Mexico, a motor-home chassis and the E-Series van cutaway. GM’s deal is expected to preserve or create 6,400 jobs. It also will provide workers with a $5,000 signing bonus, three $1,000 lump-sum payments, an improved profit-sharing plan and a raise of about $3 per hour for entry-level workers over the life of the contract. Ford’s deal gives second-tier workers more of an initial raise and offers workers higher lump-sum payments, but that may not satisfy Ford’s workers. They contend they deserve more because Ford did not accept government assistance. Ford’s UAW workers have retained the right to strike. As a condition of the federal aid to GM and Chrysler, workers there gave up the right to strike and face binding arbitration in the case of an impasse. Well what do you know... It's time to ratify a new contract and here comes some recently-registered members talking up the deal, telling us how we should vote yes, and talking about how the negotiators "rock" and "hit it out of the park". :rolleyes: It happens every time the membership has to vote on something. We see right through you. You're a paid IUAW shill - no different than any other spammer on this message board trying to sell e-cigarettes or bootleg electronics. We're not buying the BS you're selling. We're not going to just go by the highlights. We know the devil is in the details. Pimp your wares elsewhere and stop spamming us. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ktp1989 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 WHAT DID THE UNION GET BACK THAT WE GAVE UP IN THE CONCESSIONS THAT WERE SUPPOSE TO BE TEMPORARY? ANSWER....NOTHING!!! WIPE MY ASS WITH THIS CONTRACT....ITS SHIT. TRY AGAIN IUAW!!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanginonWHSP Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 And insourcing work that was promised in 2007 at KCAP.......What a joke yeah just like a new vehicle was promised back then to OHAP, and WHSP was to get the stamping, plus we do the stamping for the econoline already, now they say OHAP getting a vehicle, and we at WHSP are closing, Good luck to all that got new work!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie100 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 So far from what I have read, this contract is a slap in the face: Work group teams modeled on Valencia, full blown AWS (with mandatory Sat. and Sun. if on a 4x10 schedule), only $1,000 more than GM to sign. 41,000 employees x $1,000 = $41,000,000. Which is less than our CEO and Executives recieved. The jobs that are promised, how many will be 2nd tier? If the IUAW was really concerned about me and my family, they would really look at this F%*#ing AWS situation, money for future and current retirees, and COLA. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uawfactoryrat Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 general maintenence for mechanical trades same crap they tried to pull in 09. No cola no raises no return of 6min per hour breaks im voting no FUNNY, ITS SAYS "WHEN MANTENANCE TEAMS ARE IMPLEMENTED".... THIS IS BEFORE WE EVEN VOTE YES OR NO!!!! NICE ASSUMPTION OF US SAYING.... YES WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE TRADES DOWNSIZED!! VOTE NO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBodette68 Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 The Detroit Free Press has a pretty good write up of the new work and bonuses negotiated by the UAW-Ford team. The Highlights and contract will go into further detail for sure. http://www.freep.com/article/20111004/BUSINESS0102/111004010/UAW-Ford-deal-highlights-5-750-jobs-entry-level-raises-6-000-bonus-plus-profit-sharing?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE UAW-Ford deal highlights: 5,750 jobs; entry-level raises; $6,000 bonus plus profit sharing 1:54 PM, Oct. 4, 2011 | 179 Comments BY BRENT SNAVELY,GREG GARDNER ANDCHRISSIE THOMPSON DETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITERS The UAW and Ford’s tentative agreement creates 5,750 entry-level U.S. jobs, raises hourly wages for workers hired after September 2007 to $19.28 and pulls forward a profit-sharing payment that, when added to a $6,000 ratification bonus, will give veteran workers about $10,000 by the end of the year in addition to their regular pay. The agreement raises the hourly wage for workers hired after 2007 to $19.28 by the end of the contract, the UAW said today in a contract summary released to reporters. Those workers currently make about $15.50 an hour. Ford will also offer buyouts of $50,000 to production workers and $100,000 to skilled-trades workers, in an attempt to open jobs for more entry-level employees. John Fleming, Ford's executive vice president of global manufacturing, said Ford is announcing the 5,750 jobs for the first time. The contract also includes 6,250 created or preserved jobs that Ford has already announced. Newly created jobs will go to workers hired at the company's lower, entry-level wage, he said this morning at a press conference at Ford’s Dearborn headquarters. The contract would guarantee four $1,500 lump-sum payments in so-called “inflation protection,” in place of cost-of-living adjustments. The pact offers job security for workers at plants in Flat Rock and Kansas City and ties profit-sharing to Ford’s North American earnings, instead of just income from its U.S. operations. Under the new profit-sharing formula, Ford workers will receive an average payout of $3,752 in November based on Ford’s North American profit for the first half of 2011, the UAW said. Each Ford UAW worker also will receive a $250 payment in December for meeting quality objectives. The UAW and Ford reached the agreement early this morning after 10 weeks of bargaining, making Ford the second automaker, after General Motors, to reach a new deal with the union. GM ratified its deal last week, but the UAW may have a challenge selling the Ford agreement to workers, who expected significantly greater gains than their GM counterparts. But UAW President Bob King said UAW local leaders who heard details of the agreement this morning endorsed the tentative contract. “The leadership that was just in here were saying that they don’t have to sell the agreement,” King said this morning at a downtown Detroit press conference. “They feel like this agreement stands on its own.” Under the agreement, Ford’s plant in Flat Rock will add a shift to help build the next-generation Ford Fusion, currently built in Mexico, and continue to build the Ford Mustang in its next generation. That factory will receive a $555 million investment, providing some job security for its 1,600 hourly workers. The plant will stop production of the Mazda6 in coming months. Dearborn Truck assembly will also add a shift, UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles said. Ford will also invest $1 billion at a Kansas City assembly plant, which will build the Transit, Ford's full-size European van and will get a second-shift of F-Series production in 2012. A $128 million investment will be made in Avon Lake, Ohio, to build medium-dutytrucks, whose production was slated for Mexico, a motor-home chassis and the E-Series van cutaway. GM’s deal is expected to preserve or create 6,400 jobs. It also will provide workers with a $5,000 signing bonus, three $1,000 lump-sum payments, an improved profit-sharing plan and a raise of about $3 per hour for entry-level workers over the life of the contract. Ford’s deal gives second-tier workers more of an initial raise and offers workers higher lump-sum payments, but that may not satisfy Ford’s workers. They contend they deserve more because Ford did not accept government assistance. Ford’s UAW workers have retained the right to strike. As a condition of the federal aid to GM and Chrysler, workers there gave up the right to strike and face binding arbitration in the case of an impasse. This contract is a slap in the face to all real union members. It is all about the IUAW preserving their double dip pensions with more dues money. No COLA no contract. VOTE NO !! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avenger Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 The Detroit Free Press has a pretty good write up of the new work and bonuses negotiated by the UAW-Ford team. The Highlights and contract will go into further detail for sure. http://www.freep.com/article/20111004/BUSINESS0102/111004010/UAW-Ford-deal-highlights-5-750-jobs-entry-level-raises-6-000-bonus-plus-profit-sharing?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE UAW-Ford deal highlights: 5,750 jobs; entry-level raises; $6,000 bonus plus profit sharing 1:54 PM, Oct. 4, 2011 | 179 Comments BY BRENT SNAVELY,GREG GARDNER ANDCHRISSIE THOMPSON DETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITERS The UAW and Ford’s tentative agreement creates 5,750 entry-level U.S. jobs, raises hourly wages for workers hired after September 2007 to $19.28 and pulls forward a profit-sharing payment that, when added to a $6,000 ratification bonus, will give veteran workers about $10,000 by the end of the year in addition to their regular pay. The agreement raises the hourly wage for workers hired after 2007 to $19.28 by the end of the contract, the UAW said today in a contract summary released to reporters. Those workers currently make about $15.50 an hour. Ford will also offer buyouts of $50,000 to production workers and $100,000 to skilled-trades workers, in an attempt to open jobs for more entry-level employees. John Fleming, Ford's executive vice president of global manufacturing, said Ford is announcing the 5,750 jobs for the first time. The contract also includes 6,250 created or preserved jobs that Ford has already announced. Newly created jobs will go to workers hired at the company's lower, entry-level wage, he said this morning at a press conference at Ford’s Dearborn headquarters. The contract would guarantee four $1,500 lump-sum payments in so-called “inflation protection,” in place of cost-of-living adjustments. The pact offers job security for workers at plants in Flat Rock and Kansas City and ties profit-sharing to Ford’s North American earnings, instead of just income from its U.S. operations. Under the new profit-sharing formula, Ford workers will receive an average payout of $3,752 in November based on Ford’s North American profit for the first half of 2011, the UAW said. Each Ford UAW worker also will receive a $250 payment in December for meeting quality objectives. The UAW and Ford reached the agreement early this morning after 10 weeks of bargaining, making Ford the second automaker, after General Motors, to reach a new deal with the union. GM ratified its deal last week, but the UAW may have a challenge selling the Ford agreement to workers, who expected significantly greater gains than their GM counterparts. But UAW President Bob King said UAW local leaders who heard details of the agreement this morning endorsed the tentative contract. “The leadership that was just in here were saying that they don’t have to sell the agreement,” King said this morning at a downtown Detroit press conference. “They feel like this agreement stands on its own.” Under the agreement, Ford’s plant in Flat Rock will add a shift to help build the next-generation Ford Fusion, currently built in Mexico, and continue to build the Ford Mustang in its next generation. That factory will receive a $555 million investment, providing some job security for its 1,600 hourly workers. The plant will stop production of the Mazda6 in coming months. Dearborn Truck assembly will also add a shift, UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles said. Ford will also invest $1 billion at a Kansas City assembly plant, which will build the Transit, Ford's full-size European van and will get a second-shift of F-Series production in 2012. A $128 million investment will be made in Avon Lake, Ohio, to build medium-dutytrucks, whose production was slated for Mexico, a motor-home chassis and the E-Series van cutaway. GM’s deal is expected to preserve or create 6,400 jobs. It also will provide workers with a $5,000 signing bonus, three $1,000 lump-sum payments, an improved profit-sharing plan and a raise of about $3 per hour for entry-level workers over the life of the contract. Ford’s deal gives second-tier workers more of an initial raise and offers workers higher lump-sum payments, but that may not satisfy Ford’s workers. They contend they deserve more because Ford did not accept government assistance. Ford’s UAW workers have retained the right to strike. As a condition of the federal aid to GM and Chrysler, workers there gave up the right to strike and face binding arbitration in the case of an impasse. Yes, this is more than I thought they would get. I am really happy. Can't wait to hear more details from my chairman on this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Real? Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Yes, this is more than I thought they would get. I am really happy. Can't wait to hear more details from my chairman on this. Good idea. If you listen to the dipshits on this site, you'd think we were sent to the gulag! Great contract and we get a bunch of assclowns on this site bitchin. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiredMotorCompany Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 yeah just like a new vehicle was promised back then to OHAP, and WHSP was to get the stamping, plus we do the stamping for the econoline already, now they say OHAP getting a vehicle, and we at WHSP are closing, Good luck to all that got new work!! Wow! We get a contract offering to give us what was promised in the last contract. AND they get to close another plant, to boot!!!!! Your brothers and sisters are willing to sell out 250 ILO's and an entire plant for $9000 up front. Don't say I didn't warn you. I've been on the receiving end of a similar contract. But, I do not expect this to be voted down and any significant changes added. It's all there will be. They didn't try a second time in 2009 and they won't this time. Either way, I'll have to hold my nose when it's time to vote. Good luck to you at WHSP. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trufflebuns Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 you had that low of expectations for our negotiation team? I guess i'm the asshole because i believe they were better than this shit. That they choose not to get a better bonus as part of pattern bargaining, which is bullshit. Isn't that bullshit that they could have gotten us all this and more but didn't want to. Are you sayin' the more that we get the less that they get? Cuz I think that's what you're sayin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsmeuaw Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 The Detroit Free Press has a pretty good write up of the new work and bonuses negotiated by the UAW-Ford team. The Highlights and contract will go into further detail for sure. http://www.freep.com/article/20111004/BUSINESS0102/111004010/UAW-Ford-deal-highlights-5-750-jobs-entry-level-raises-6-000-bonus-plus-profit-sharing?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE UAW-Ford deal highlights: 5,750 jobs; entry-level raises; $6,000 bonus plus profit sharing 1:54 PM, Oct. 4, 2011 | 179 Comments BY BRENT SNAVELY,GREG GARDNER ANDCHRISSIE THOMPSON DETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITERS The UAW and Ford’s tentative agreement creates 5,750 entry-level U.S. jobs, raises hourly wages for workers hired after September 2007 to $19.28 and pulls forward a profit-sharing payment that, when added to a $6,000 ratification bonus, will give veteran workers about $10,000 by the end of the year in addition to their regular pay. The agreement raises the hourly wage for workers hired after 2007 to $19.28 by the end of the contract, the UAW said today in a contract summary released to reporters. Those workers currently make about $15.50 an hour. Ford will also offer buyouts of $50,000 to production workers and $100,000 to skilled-trades workers, in an attempt to open jobs for more entry-level employees. John Fleming, Ford's executive vice president of global manufacturing, said Ford is announcing the 5,750 jobs for the first time. The contract also includes 6,250 created or preserved jobs that Ford has already announced. Newly created jobs will go to workers hired at the company's lower, entry-level wage, he said this morning at a press conference at Ford’s Dearborn headquarters. The contract would guarantee four $1,500 lump-sum payments in so-called “inflation protection,” in place of cost-of-living adjustments. The pact offers job security for workers at plants in Flat Rock and Kansas City and ties profit-sharing to Ford’s North American earnings, instead of just income from its U.S. operations. Under the new profit-sharing formula, Ford workers will receive an average payout of $3,752 in November based on Ford’s North American profit for the first half of 2011, the UAW said. Each Ford UAW worker also will receive a $250 payment in December for meeting quality objectives. The UAW and Ford reached the agreement early this morning after 10 weeks of bargaining, making Ford the second automaker, after General Motors, to reach a new deal with the union. GM ratified its deal last week, but the UAW may have a challenge selling the Ford agreement to workers, who expected significantly greater gains than their GM counterparts. But UAW President Bob King said UAW local leaders who heard details of the agreement this morning endorsed the tentative contract. “The leadership that was just in here were saying that they don’t have to sell the agreement,” King said this morning at a downtown Detroit press conference. “They feel like this agreement stands on its own.” Under the agreement, Ford’s plant in Flat Rock will add a shift to help build the next-generation Ford Fusion, currently built in Mexico, and continue to build the Ford Mustang in its next generation. That factory will receive a $555 million investment, providing some job security for its 1,600 hourly workers. The plant will stop production of the Mazda6 in coming months. Dearborn Truck assembly will also add a shift, UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles said. Ford will also invest $1 billion at a Kansas City assembly plant, which will build the Transit, Ford's full-size European van and will get a second-shift of F-Series production in 2012. A $128 million investment will be made in Avon Lake, Ohio, to build medium-dutytrucks, whose production was slated for Mexico, a motor-home chassis and the E-Series van cutaway. GM’s deal is expected to preserve or create 6,400 jobs. It also will provide workers with a $5,000 signing bonus, three $1,000 lump-sum payments, an improved profit-sharing plan and a raise of about $3 per hour for entry-level workers over the life of the contract. Ford’s deal gives second-tier workers more of an initial raise and offers workers higher lump-sum payments, but that may not satisfy Ford’s workers. They contend they deserve more because Ford did not accept government assistance. Ford’s UAW workers have retained the right to strike. As a condition of the federal aid to GM and Chrysler, workers there gave up the right to strike and face binding arbitration in the case of an impasse. Ford contract would make concessions permanent! The tentative Ford contract means this: Ford will give us a signing bonus of $6,000 (before taxes), plus four $1,500 bonuses (before taxes) and promises of profit-sharing. But we lose all the concessions we gave up. Everything that we want back, Ford said NO! NO! NO! NO raises, NO COLA, NO performance bonuses, NO Christmas bonuses, NO Easter Monday holiday, NO return of lost break time. NO overtime after 8 hours. (Letter on back-up time doesn’t change this.) First tier autoworkers lost up to $30,000 in concessions over the last few years. Now Ford wants to continue these concessions for another 4 years. At what cost to us? Lose another $30,000? All for $12,000 in bonuses? No raises for 4 more years, after we have already waited 6 years? They give us 2011 profit-sharing this November – by taking it away from next March’s money – hoping we will jump at the money now and forget The biggest concession is that 2-tier will continue. This contract does not bring up the 2nd-tier workers up to first tier. This contract keeps them permanent 2nd-tier, with no path to move up to first tier wages and benefits. The pay increase, spread over 4 years, barely makes up for what 2nd-tier workers lost in the 2009 concessions. The supposed 20% limit on 2nd-tier workers is filled with loopholes. The percentage of 2nd-tier workers will increase, meaning the threat of everyone being eventually reduced to 2nd-tier will increase. The profit-sharing formula is supposed to be improved, by including North American operations instead of just the U.S. But what is to keep Ford from shifting profits around to hide them? Do you trust Ford? There is also a cap on profit-sharing when there didn't used to be one. And there is no guarantee of getting profit-sharing every year. This contract makes us pay for what Ford did not put into the VEBA. The VEBA is underfunded because Ford only put in 57% of what was needed for retiree health care. Retirees are paying more out of pocket. Instead of making Ford pay for their obligations, this contract would take 10% of any profit-sharing we might get to put into the VEBA. New retirees will take another hit because for the first contract ever, there is no increase in the 30-and-out pension. Current retirees’ Christmas bonus is taken away from them. There are promises of new jobs. But remember the 2007 contract where Ford promised to save 10,000 jobs – instead we lost 17,300 jobs. If you look closely at the promises of jobs, it is mostly work that Ford was going to do anyway. When the past concessions were taken away from us, they wanted us to believe that when the companies were reporting a profit again, we would get back what we gave up. It was all a lie. They want us to accept that these concessions will be permanent. But we don’t have to stand by and watch our families’ standard of living be permanently reduced, while our bosses are the only ones who prosper from our hard work. The Ford contract does have more upfront money than the GM contract. But let’s remember why it is more – because we voted “No” in 2009. It ‘s a good lesson to remember this time. I’m voting “NO” and I ask you to vote “NO”! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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