Posted on 11/28/2006 11:33:13 PM PST by Azzurri
Can not link to the Detroit papers here, but this is just breaking. See the Detroit News or Free Press for information. No link on any national websites that I can find yet.
Bump for reference. Where are those 35K workers going to go? Please stay up north.
Ok, the starting wage is good. But is Ford going to get trashed like Wal-Mart for hiring part time workers and giving them no benefits? Someone tell Edwards about this. He'll jump right on it
To people like myself who don't need the benefits, that starting salary is a gold mine. If I hear of any openings that will fit my schedule I'm jumping at it.
Actually, I would too.
Shoot, that's more than I make as a Ford engineering contractor.
The good news is that I was hired even after they put a freeze on new hires, since there was a whole bunch of work that had piled up since my predecessor departed.
And the result will be lower car prices?
In theory. First they'll have to pay down their debt.
I certainly don't know the inside story of ford's impending demise, but one can guess. This is the company that made the edsel, remember? In the early 1950s they woke up and realized : HEY, we're making our cars TOO GOOD, they never wear out. The 1952+/- models just ran, and ran...and RAN. So in 1955 they came out with cars that fell apart after 3 years, thinking they had the public by the gonads. Then the japanese said : opportunity smiles, now foreign made cars are some 40% of the US market.....My dad always said : if it's a ford, it's a buckboard. No matter what they designed/built/called it, it was ALWAYS a bumpy buckboard. So old Henry put together horseless carriages with mass production as an successful innovation but that was about it, its been a reactionary, bunker mentality in the board room ever since. And so it goes with dinosaurs....the UAW and its greed is part of the problem but what you're seeing is evolution-in-action : the survival of the fittest...
It'll be interesting to see how many are willing to give up their retirement bennies for more cash.
Fix Or Repair Daily
I always bought Fords up to 1975. After that, their quality took a steep leap off a cliff.
He'll probably send one of his aides up to Dearborn to pick up a Mustang for his kid....
I've owned quite a few Ford's (last three being Taurus, Taurus and Crown Vic) and I don't have any complaints about them.
Then, why did you get rid of them? I still have the vehicles that I purchased 9 and 12 years ago. No need to get rid of them since they were paid for long ago.
That may be the perception... facts are they are significantly more reliable than GMs....
The Fusion and Milan actually beat the Accord and Camry for reliability, according to Consumer Reports.
The Crown Vic was an '82, the first Taurus was an '88 and I'm still driving the second one, a '96.
"Just curious. The demand of the position may be worth the money."
A fact often missed. $31 an hour for a janitor may be obscene. But that same wage for a highly skilled machinist can easily be justified.
LOL
I've still got my 10 year old Taurus. Runs perfectly well, and I have NEVER needed a major repair. Wish my 9 year old Camry was as good.
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