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Ford preparing white-collar workers to fill parts orders if UAW strikes - salaried Ford workers could soon run forklifts if union employees walk off job next month
Fox News ^ | 8-17-23 | Breck Dumas

Posted on 08/17/2023 7:36:57 PM PDT by dynachrome

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Isn't "white collar" racist?/s
1 posted on 08/17/2023 7:36:57 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Sucks to be “at will” and “exempt”.


2 posted on 08/17/2023 7:39:16 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: dynachrome

That won’t end well.


3 posted on 08/17/2023 7:39:49 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: dynachrome

All those parts orders?

is that for all those ev’s sitting idle on the lots, or for those broke down in the garage lucky enough to have not erupted in flames?


4 posted on 08/17/2023 7:41:44 PM PDT by patriot torch
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To: dynachrome

Que the Benny Hill music.


5 posted on 08/17/2023 7:42:45 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: dynachrome

I’ve worked in the warehouse and in corporate and I believe that the whse people could run the office, but there is no way that the corporate a-holes could run a warehouse/manufacturing. Or even make a box for that case.

The overpaid thinker who daintly clips his fingernails all day long will freak out. All the arse kissers won’t know how to look up. Or how to drive a pallet jack.


6 posted on 08/17/2023 7:43:53 PM PDT by BarbM (Men who look at porn are impotent for God.)
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To: dynachrome

You can’t just hop on a forklift and operate it safely without training. There is more to it than just driving. Back in my 20’s I needed to pass a training course and get a license before I could operate it for insurance purposes with the company.


7 posted on 08/17/2023 7:48:33 PM PDT by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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Yakkety Sax
8 posted on 08/17/2023 7:49:39 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: BarbM

Yeah there is no way someone who manages material acquisition and production schedules would be smart enough to move pallets from one location to another


9 posted on 08/17/2023 7:50:04 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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I started operating a forklift when I was 10.
Things are different in small family run companies.
10 posted on 08/17/2023 7:52:06 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: dynachrome

Takes a union employee to know how to spend the morning hitting up the supply cage for work gloves.


11 posted on 08/17/2023 7:53:10 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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I don’t know what it’s like at Ford or really at any manufacturer these days since I am retired. But my first job out of college was with the world’s largest manufacturer of electronic connectors and associated crimping and application machinery. I worked in Engineering Systems as a white collar employee in IT. I loved going out on factory floors and working, so did the engineers because they designed everything on the floor. We had good relationships with factory workers because our job was to make them more productive. We did their jobs so we knew exactly what they did for a living and they were pretty open about how they really did their jobs (not by the manual) and had ideas how things could be improved. But then it wasn’t a unionized shop.


12 posted on 08/17/2023 7:56:48 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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Good story. Thanks for sharing.


13 posted on 08/17/2023 8:03:36 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸 Selling out the U.S.A.: The Briben Brand™)
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To: dynachrome

“The Show Must Go On!!”


14 posted on 08/17/2023 8:05:16 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Last Dakotan
Things are different in small family run companies.

That's true. But this is Ford we are talking about. If someone is operating a forklift and dumps a heavy load on a co-worker by not balancing it correctly and und up killing him, I doubt they will be covered by insurance. I am sure in their policy it requires proper operator training in the equipment.

15 posted on 08/17/2023 8:12:54 PM PDT by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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Give us what we want or we will quit and kill your business. How is that different from extortion?


16 posted on 08/17/2023 8:17:57 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: BarbM
I’ve worked in the warehouse and in corporate and I believe that the whse people could run the office, but there is no way that the corporate a-holes could run a warehouse/manufacturing. Or even make a box for that case. The overpaid thinker who daintly clips his fingernails all day long will freak out. All the arse kissers won’t know how to look up. Or how to drive a pallet jack.

Partner, they will strike since Ford and GM workers do not want to assemble those "Kill Your Jobs" Electric Vehicles.

This is just unbelievable that GM and Ford want to commit suicide.

17 posted on 08/17/2023 8:23:45 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: EEGator

When UPS went on the big strike in the 90s an engineer I worked with there was told to “wear his browns” (they all have to have the uniform at home) and report to work to deliver packages. He did as he was told but said his productivity score was 14% compared with a trained delivery driver. But it didn’t matter much because the sorting hubs were all but shut down because the white collar people didn’t know how to run the machines.


18 posted on 08/17/2023 8:26:28 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: dynachrome

First real work for some of them.

All a great reason why i will never buy a UAW made product.


19 posted on 08/17/2023 8:26:55 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Yes, “back in the day” engineers and technicians talked with each other and THE ENGINEERS KNEW THE TECHNICIANS’ JOBS so they designed with serviceability in mind.

When that broke down we moved from a “repair” mode to a “replacment” mode.


20 posted on 08/17/2023 8:40:07 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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