United Auto Workers Approve a New Four-Year Contract With Ford Motor

[Krista Davenport]

United Auto Workers Approve a New Four-Year Contract With Ford Motor
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
Published: October 18, 2011

The United Auto Workers has ratified its proposed contract with the Ford Motor Company after union members at two assembly plants in Kentucky approved the accord.



Local 600 in Dearborn, Mich., the largest local for the union, disclosed the development Tuesday on its Facebook page, citing national union officials. U.A.W. Local 862 in Louisville, Ky., said its members at two plants voted 53.3 percent in favor of the four-year agreement. The Louisville plants build pickups and sport-utility vehicles and employ 5,397 workers. Ford’s 40,600 American hourly workers were to conclude voting Tuesday.

Michele Martin, a spokesman for the union, did not immediately answer a voice message and an e-mail seeking comment.

U.A.W. members at Ford shifted from voting 53 percent against the contract last Friday to 63.2 percent in favor as of Tuesday morning. Ford is offering 12,000 new jobs, $6.2 billion in factory upgrades and bonus and profit-sharing payments per worker this year that total as much as $10,000. A lack of a wage increase was responsible for much of the initial opposition.

“People are saying there is room for improvement, but they’ll vote in favor of this contract because it means jobs,” said Jerome Williams, president of U.A.W. Local 2000, which represents 1,880 workers voting today at Ford’s Ohio van plant. “A few people are saying we gave up monetary concessions and other things that they’d like to see come back, and rightfully so. But the economic situation isn’t the best right now.”

The U.A.W. negotiated contracts for 113,000 workers for the first time since General Motors and Chrysler went bankrupt in 2009. G.M. workers endorsed a new deal last month and workers at Chrysler begin voting this week. Only workers at Ford, which avoided Chapter 11, could strike in these contract talks because G.M. and Chrysler employees agreed not to walk out as part of their government-backed rescues.

Ford has promised investments totaling $1.26 billion at the two Kentucky assembly plants. .
A version of this article appeared in print on October 19, 2011, on page B6 of the New York edition with the headline: United Auto Workers Approve a New Four-Year Contract With Ford Motor.

  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/business/ford-contract-with-union-is-ratified.html?_r=1&ref=unitedautomobileworkers

[Volitzer]

Yes operation make Obama look good is now underway.

Then after he gets re-elected, the Globalists can declare martial law.

This is just pandering.

[Krista Davenport]

To the extent that Obama had ANYTHING to do with this one, it's that he bailed out the auto companies so they would still be around today.  That happened in the early part of 2009.

Romney and Paul were against the auto bailouts, by the way, which means that they both told the America auto industry to f*** itself.  What patriots!

[Volitzer]

GE leaves USA
 
General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha, WI, to Beijing. In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year, but paid no taxes-the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the United States.
 
So let me get this straight. President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help create jobs. I guess the President forgot to tell him in which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs.
 
If this doesn't show you the total lack of leadership of this President, I don't know what does.  Please pass this information to others and think about it before you buy a GE product.
 
 
 
 
http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LOUVYE1A74E901-5NJ1IVKV8LVLITS4VGNO46MQH9
 

[Krista Davenport]

Actually, that is wrong, you have your facts wrong, as usual.

GE Healthcare X-Ray Division

At the end of July, GE Healthcare announced it would move 4 executives of the X-Ray Division to China to lead the development of specific products for use in China. Subsequent media reports inaccurately described the announcement – GE is not moving its entire X-Ray Division to China. The team on the ground in China will develop X-Ray products suited to the specific needs of the Chinese market: for example, Chinese hospitals in rural markets require very basic products. This on the ground business development will help support jobs at home.

GE’s overall business in China—across all divisions—will support nearly 4,500 American jobs, including those along GE’s U.S. supply chain.

http://www.gereports.com/ge-and-china-growing-market-overseas-more-jobs-at-home/

GE is adding 125 new workers at the Greenville plant this year, part of an overall addition of 6,500 manufacturing staffers in the United States since 2009.

http://www.gereports.com/ge-and-china-growing-market-overseas-more-jobs-at-home/