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Originally Posted by dude1394
Guvment Motors at work.
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it's interesting that you left this part of the article out...
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Ford Motor Co., seeking concessions granted to U.S. rivals, reached a tentative United Auto Workers accord that includes a six-year ban on some strikes and a wage freeze for new hires, two people familiar with the matter said.
UAW leaders will present the plan Oct. 13 in Detroit to the Ford National Council, which consists of factory-level union chiefs, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the terms aren’t public. Ford offered pledges for new production and a $1,000 bonus tied to quality goals, the people said.
New savings would help Ford build on a $500 million cut in labor costs under a UAW agreement in March, while the sweeteners are aimed at damping resistance to fresh concessions. General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC won union givebacks to help them with their U.S.-backed bankruptcies.
“There’s a lot of sentiment against concessions inside the plant,” said Gary Walkowicz, a union official at a Ford truck factory in Dearborn, Michigan, who isn’t directly involved in the national contract talks.
Ford, the only U.S. automaker to avoid bankruptcy, is seeking parity in labor expenses with GM and Chrysler, which received UAW approval for a six-year pay freeze for entry-level employees, a no-strike accord until 2015 and fewer union job classifications.
The March accord with the UAW calls for Dearborn-based Ford’s 41,000 U.S. hourly workers to cede annual bonuses and cost-of-living increases and accept reduced layoff benefits.
I'm sure that the lack of concessions on "vision coverage" (as a side note, I have a vision plan "vsp" and it costs- get this- a whopping $10/month for a family of four) is due to the "thugs" of the obama administration working with the uaw to weaken ford so it too can be thrown onto bankruptcy and then, the diabolical plan oh so apparent, will also become a part of your "guvment motors".
or maybe, as shown above, the uaw and ford are working to provide ford with similar concessions, but not every concession, given to ford's rivals, without any involvement of the obama administration btw.