https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-gm-stellantis-pay-raise-uaw-contract-tesla-labor-costs-2023-10
Big 3 will go down fast.
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Really easy to tell the union members who can think ahead. Makes these fun to read.
I don't understand how a bunch of nobodies can step on the very workers that help put food on everyone's tables. At the end of the day, if the vehicles aren't built and sold, none of us eat.
Watched a JF video where he was gaslighting the UAW saying the U.A.W. should tell him how to improve quality and absenteeism.
I’m old enough to remember when the older/injured plant workers were moved to janitorial and security positions (which were Ford employees at the time). Now those ‘janitors’ patrolled the lines in a golf cart looking for problems (machinery issues , cleaning up oops immediately, assisting newbies with better ways to do their job, filling in for restroom breaks, etc) in other words they were ensuring quality. The UAW explained that to Ford leadership, but the janitorial employees were cut and outsourced to a company that just pushes a broom thru once a day. The security guards when they were long term Ford employees cared and ensured vehicles weren’t driven off the lot.
Hmmm look at where we are now. Those cost saving measures actually increased costs
The sky is falling because the workers got a raise !!!!!! Watch out because a little money is being diverted from the billionaire class !!!!! Nobody gonna but Ford’s anymore !!!!! All the white collar rats are jumping ship !!!!! Meanwhile people keep buying up F 150’s that the UAW working class people keep making. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out Mr. executive. Have you considered a factory job building trucks ?
How do I apply for transfer from Ford Credit desk job to Union line job?
"UAW costs Ford $90 an hour" would be more accurate...
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Change the title to 'UAW costs Ford $90 an hour, workers get less in cash'
Does that match your agenda?
Eat the rich baby. Pony up
@lgl+1pmldVrw: I buy built in U.S.A. that includes Mercedes, Toyota, Honda, etc. ;-)
One year ago, Ford unveiled a brand new gleaming engineering center in Mexico, similar in size to the property they were selling in dearborn.
Rest assured, additional manufacturing will be built in Mexico in parallel with the new engineering center.
Mr. Fains ‘eat the rich’ shirt going to look awfully prescient when it is reborn as
‘eat authentic Mexican cuisine served and sourced locally to the Mexico office and engineering-manufacturing staff’.
@lgl+1pmldVrw - Buying American and greedy union workers are only relevant to each other if you're trying to point out how greedy union workers are perpetuating the expense associated with buying America.
Go blow. You cry about buy American then complain that union worker is greedy.
60,000 home-purchase agreements were canceled in August
"I’ve seen more homebuyers cancel deals in the last six months than I’ve seen at any point during my 24 years of working in real estate," Jaime Moore
LOL, buckle up.
Important distinction, $90/hr no matter how you bend your head around it, simply means labor intensive work will move rapidly to Mexico. The competitiveness of product offerings will stay suppressed until that happens. So volumes will stay low as well. It was a good run while it lasted. The market is a self adjusting animal.
So how is that sustainable? It's not... massive white collar and budget cuts will follow... Ford will shrink in size and cancel vehicles and factories... Ford now has a $35 labor cost per hour disadvantage against non UAW OEMs. Bye bye...
$90 total per hour for barely doing any work is a great job.
Misleading title.
The UAW workers aren't actually getting paychecks of $90/hr. That's the cost Ford will incur to employ them.
Very important distinction, unless you have an agenda.