Posted on 11/09/2009 3:20:13 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Ford Learns The Price Of Solvency
Logan Robinson, 11.07.09, 12:00 PM EST
But what has the UAW learned?
In plant-by-plant voting over the last few weeks a large majority of the 41,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) workers employed by the Ford Motor Company voted to reject modifications to their collective bargaining agreement negotiated by their own national union.
The modifications were designed to bring the Ford-UAW agreement into parity with concessions the UAW gave to GM and Chrysler as part of their government-brokered bankruptcies. They included a wage freeze for entry-level workers until the 2015 contract, a commitment to binding arbitration with no strikes until 2015, and other concessions.
In return Ford promised to keep work in various UAW plants in the U.S., and to pay a $1,000-per-worker bonus. This rejection also ends for now the UAW’s long-standing commitment to "pattern" bargaining, meaning that the Detroit 3 all get the same labor agreement. Not since Chrysler's near bankruptcy and federal loan guarantees in the late 1970s has this pattern been broken.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
%%%Move South we know how to deal with scum down here%%%
Absolutely!
All auto plants in right to work states.
F**K YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come on down to Tennesse, Georgia, Alabama, etc.
We don't NEED or WANT any stinkin' union thugs and pukes here in the good ol' SOUTH.
F**K YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come on down to Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, etc.
We don't NEED or WANT any (1 is too many) stinkin' union thugs and pukes here in the good ol' SOUTH.
A company makes a few billion in profit in a quarter and it wants to cut it’s employees wages and benefits??? What’s the reason??? Just because it can???
Uhhhh YES. Stop the nonsense youre acting like like your workers are in a sweat shop making nothing.
They're making billions...IF they start talking about dropping the price of their products as a result of the cut wages and benefits, I'll support their endeavor...
exactly what cuts are u enduring?
Wonder if Ford is still planning on funding the looney gay pride alliance?
Darn right. We make BMWs and will soon make Boeing planes. Come on down FORD. Just leave the Union thugs up north.
Agreed. Their choices are limited:
- They could cave and become GovernmentMotors 1.3
- They could fight and be bankrupted in short order
- They could fire the union sheep and become the Wal-Mart of car manufacturing. (”Hey, who wants a job!?!”)
(But the feds would make it impossible for them to do business. They’d have to move to China.)
No matter what they do, they’re screwed. UAW wins again. We’ll all be Obamotorists in the end.
- They might get (extremely) creative. The Rules Have Changed.
That whole connection was dropped over a year ago with much fan fair from the org. that was going after Ford for it.
I will never ever buy another auto build in a union (goverment) shop!
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