Since the plant provides the regional Ford plant with Explorer body parts, they stepped in and told mgt. to settle or else...... They were not going to allow themselves to be shut down simply because we would not have been unable to supply them with parts.
I don't know what the new agreement with the union entails but it ain't good for our company considering the millions in losses we have experienced of the last couple years and no new work coming in...........
Competition in the stamping industry is tough as hell and Ford just made it tougher for us...............
As a side note, production workers at that plant are averaging over $60,000 per year with overtime, some making in excess of $80,000......... Not too bad for that part of the country
$60K per year for feeding sheetmetal into a press?!? Holy cow! Why did I bother to get educated? You could train monkeys to do that kind of work.