Bluesmobiles Matter.
Posted on 07/09/2020 6:41:17 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Ford Motor Company Employees have asked the company’s leadership to stop making and selling police vehicles.
According to Verge, the internal discussion came as the demands for racial justice raged across the country.
In response, Ford CEO Jim Hackett has told employees in a letter that he doesn’t think it’s “controversial that the Ford Police Interceptor helps officers do their job” and that Ford will continue the business.
Ford has the market when it comes to making police cars, accounting for two-thirds of the cop cars on the street.
Despite Ford’s success in the police car market, employees, including black workers who are part of Ford’s African Ancestry Network (FAAN) employee resource group have circulated a letter asking the company to “cease development, production, and sale of all custom police vehicles and products.”
This is one reason why employees inside Ford are now arguing that the company should sever its relationship with police. “We cannot claim to support the fight against systemic racism while supplying and supporting the very systems that perpetrate violence against Black Americans,” the group wrote, according to Jalopnik.
They continued:
Throughout our history, the vehicles that Ford employees design and build have been used as accessories to police brutality and oppression. We know that while many join, support, or supply law enforcement with good intentions, these racist policing practices that plague our society are historic and systemic — a history and system perpetuated by Ford for over 70 years — ever since Ford introduced the first-ever police package in 1950. As an undeniable part of that history and system, we are long overdue to “think and act differently” on our role in racism.
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Ford’s fault. They fed the beast
yep. I see it at work also.
Same here. Especially about caddys.
THAT’S funny :)!
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Biting the hand that feeds you. Crap for brains comes to mind. (I had to check whether this was a Babylon Bee creation).
I am in the market for a new pickup truck. Have driven Fords for years. Will now be looking at Chevrolet or GMC.
Bluesmobiles Matter.
NH State Police use Dodge Chargers.
No outrunning them.
Move the protesters to a line of work that pays less and offer extra per hour to anyone who will work on the police cars...
Don’t like it, take a stand and quit your freaking job and give up that nice union wage.
“””Is there a Ford’s European Ancestry Network (FEAN)? Would such a thing be tolerated?””””””””
HONKIES UNION GROUP....HUG.
Employees such as these are the reason I try never to buy things from a company that has employees like these.
If Ford desires to keep me, and many fellow Americans, as customers they better not start down this road. I’ll be more than happy to take my business elsewhere.
“Throughout our history, the vehicles that Ford employees design and build have been used as accessories to police brutality and oppression. We know that while many join, support, or supply law enforcement with good intentions, these racist policing practices that plague our society are historic and systemic”
“systemic” is a blatant lie right out of the BLM handbook, which thousands of black police officers, and heads of police departments across the country can attest to. All those fine black police officers and heads of police departments would not have risen to their ranks if racism among police was “systemic”.
“Systemic” is the “cause” by which the Marxist endowed BLM claims that institutions cannot be reformed, they must be torn down. Yes, if you are Marxist, the old culture must be destroyed and only on its total ashes can you build the Marxist utopia.
Everywhere you see the term “systemic” in this war, be informed it comes from the Marxists and is in use to serve their agenda. Many ignorant people are the sheeple, the fools for tools sheeple, who spout language and terms they know not the origins of, but merely repeat, as they’ve been taught, as if the terms are gospel and not subject to question or debate - they are to be accepted as a given.
Time to lean into the union to get their members in line with the "detriment of the company" clause as well as a known dollar amount that union members earn building police vehicles. Also time to remind the malcontents what percentage of their employee discount is paid by earnings on police vehicles.
How are the police going to stop BLM if they kill a little girl without transportation?
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the kid’s dead - too late for police transport - call the morgue. Stopping the terrorists is illegal and if arrested must be quickly released. If there is a problem, just make an appointment with a social worker or the like.
“Check out the new Dodge Ram.”
That was #2 on the list behind the Silverado. I will certainly give it a closer look. My favorite car way back in the day was a ‘68 Dodge Dart, with a slant-six engine. That car ran FOREVER! Then, in the 1970s, Dodge started to make some real lemons (see: Aspen).
Because they are cowards like almost all of corporate America. I am afraid these employees will now try to sabotage the police vehicles. Who would ever be a cop now?
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