Love to hear that Ford is the first. They always to me have been run better than the other two. Point out that out of the big three, they were the only one that did not need bailing out. That says something. Perhaps the other two should stop stock buy backs and how they pay the ceo's and actually invest in workers and save a little dough.
No bailout and their trying to negotiate with their workers!! I think I will actually switch brands on my next purchase. I've never owned a ford but there's a first time for everything😃
@@cmw898 I thought that they received a loan that they paid back, not a total bailout. Is that accurate? It does seem pretty early on that Ford is trying to offer deals that would get workers back to work.
@@jeffwvu4602"that's 4 days @ 12 hour shifts. "Now 5-6 day weeks all 12 hour days!" That's part of negotiations and negotiable. It's really about longevity, getting the Temps hired and fair pay. America is at WAR, being destroyed from the inside. Our Country is over "300 YEARS in DEBT!" We are enslaving our children's- children's-children and beyond! ((Wake up USA")) Surfs up; this is your heritage, your legacy to your children!
Yes just pass the wage increases on to the customers and they will pay 100,000 dollars for a new car with a 3 year warranty, or maybe that guy may buy a 26000 dollar Kia with a 10 year 100,000 mile warranty.
@NicholasWHaley7 so you target the little people to slow inflation instead of taxing those with all the money? Reduce the deficit via taxes kn wealthy and that would also slow inflation. Helping supply chain also good for slowing inflation. But no, you'd rather target the poor to do so. Sad
@@NicholasWHaley7 dude just fuck off with the government spending bullshit that whole point falls out a Russian window when you look at data the past 40yrs since Reagan left office. Every year since he served we’ve declined, not because of government spending but because of deregulation of stock trading. Employers are paid in stocks allowing them massive bonuses that aren’t held to the same standards as a salary is whilst employees get some stock if even that, which maybe in a few centuries will be enough for retirement. Maybe if they spent the 1/4 of a trillion dollars they’ve spent on stock buybacks then they could afford to have full time employees instead of using part time and temporary slaves, because they damn well aren’t treated like humans having to work 70hr weeks to equal the pay of their full time coworker…
@@TwinFalls88 Literally this… We could solve much of this by banning stock buybacks tbh since those allow executives to skirt income tax laws then enrich themselves whilst the employees stagnate.
Hey, remember when auto jobs were the plum jobs in manufacturing in the U.S.? I do. Where are the plum manufacturing jobs now?Anybody? Time to right the wrongs. Go get 'em! "Don't stop 'til you get enough" 😅
@farmerthatflies Yep, but those jobs are no longer 'plum' paying jobs. Just the "pits'. And the resulting profits are shipped back to the wealthy executives and shareholders who think they are geniuses.
@@jeremyn.3275 you might oughta to look at Clinton era policies, that’s when we were hearing the giant sucking sound Ross Perot was talking about when the jobs were going to Mexico. They started returning because and only because of the trump policies, whether you like hearing that or not. But that doesn’t mean they are obligated to stay, they can turn the plants off here, lock the doors and go to foreign countries and build brand new plants before they’ll give in to the demands that are being made now
@@jeremyn.3275you mean NAFTA which was signed by Clinton then a better trade deal was put into place by based Trump to make it more advantageous to Americans.
Ford's been around 120 years, they're not gonna let this take them down. I think GM will come around eventually. Stellantis will probably just back out of most of the US market and focus on the EU.
Gm, aka government motors Will just ask for a bail out, fire, and kick out the UAW, and employee some of the millions of illegal immigrants to assemble cars. Bookmark this comment😉
@@1871corporationUSA not gonna happen. we have laws in this country. where do live that this shit goes on? but ford always seemed more willing to negotiate than the others in the past. i think its partly due to tyrant henry using violence to keep unions out. they dont want to be looked at as that anymore.
Most big companies rather buy back stocks to boost prices so rich investors and CEOs are enriched , using some of there large profits to help employees not beneficial to them
Yes, because im not going to support a company that donated millions to BLM. And workers that pay billions to a union that lobby politicians that kill manufacturing jobs
No. I'd rather have my vehicle made in Germany by clean people. Some of the workers in the vid are just EWWWW . And to think they touched your car! Stellantis all the way, long as they leave the U.S. projects
Henry Ford set the rule himself: The line workers have to be able to afford the cars themselves. IT'S YOUR OWN RULE. If they were smart, they would have kept making some little $15,000 5-seat 4-banger fwd stickshift runabout, just for that purpose.
He also didn't mean what he said. As he was the last to pay his people a living wage and fought the hardest and longest to not unionize. He only ended up paying to keep people from quitting and or reporting medical claims that were leaving people disfigured maimed and even killed. Rather than fix the safety concerns he paid them 5 bucks a day
@@jeremyn.3275 5 bucks a day was good money then. People lined up at the gate. Henry wasn't perfect. No one is. A product himself of his time. But looking back and disparaging a deceased person based on current culture seems distasteful. It was a different era. Many would still consider him a great man. Despite flaws..
@@itsallminor6133 it's not distasteful at all. Calling out his very claim that he didn't live by is simply calling it out. He treated his workers like shit and did little to nothing to protect them from the dangers of the job. Saying that was just the time. Is like saying it's acceptable for an 80 yr old to be openly racist simply because that was accepted in their time. That's a scape goat a piss poor excuse and nothing more.
@@jeremyn.3275 why are you even here? Are you even in the union? Were you eve You work for the company at all? You appear a poltically motivated left winger just hard up for a cause. And whats wrong with 80 year old racists? They are as dependable as a toyota. Don't be a hater
Its wonderful to see Ford is the first to come to its senses that ripping the Band-Aid off and getting to work on actually trying to give auto workers enough to keep engaging instead of enticing more strikes. It's the companies fault for waiting for so long to even discuss these talks before this contract was even up, it took strikes for them to realize they needed to get this done.
May l ask a question, bob keenan works at ford oakwood Blvd Dearborn overtime now leaving for vacation, where's the solidarity for strike workers in Wayne, i am uaw member too and was told all vacations were canceled I realize Bob doesn't like being lawful, as a veteran senior widow he threatened me with revolver twice, never served his country, bullies me, police reports but nothing done, is this the kind of person Ford wants
If you really think the suits will take a pay cut, you're all deluding yourselves. Yes, the workers may get better wages, but it only going to raise the cost of the product. Like raising minimum wage only raises the price of groceries to cover the cost. Not saying they shouldn't strike, but the final end result will just be even more expensive vehicles. Especially when all three of the big boys will be talking together before they "make a deal" with the UAW.
Totally false. Wages are 5% of the cost of a vehicle. The companies could double wages and STILL make billions in profit. The idea that wages cause inflation is a lie. Bosses cause inflation, not workers. They're literally the people who set prices.
@@agluebottle That's exactly what I said. Even if the workers do get a pay raise, the suits won't lose any money. They'll just raise the cost of the vehicle to adjust. Since they set the prices.
The ceo of the Red Cross. Makes 694000 a year. That money comes from average peoples donations. So before the Red Cross helps anybody who is in need the ceo takes 694000 dollars. I’m pretty sure you could find somebody to do her job for 100000 k. A year. Boggles my mind
Tbh I don't know if that is true. That being said if that is all that CEO makes I think most people could live with that as long as all the other work is getting done and the other employees can support a family on their pay. We all hate seeing a ceo making millions and then the people at the bottom aren't able to afford a house or a car or anything else...
@@SzymczykProductions it’s public information So you think it’s ok for somebody to make that kinda money from donations for the poor. Elderly and sick? Give your head a shake
If they stopped Stock Buybacks they could increase the salary of workers by 100% and still keep car costs the same. The CEOs and the investors are just very greedy.
@@donaldpiper9763 I hope so valves cams lifters and frame rot . Pretty bad when your truck is like three years old . Not just one make all,of them .with one or two of the problems I mentioned
Ford isn't going to be hit hardest. The small companies that supply 80% of the "widgets" used by Ford are hit by immediate drop to zero. Ford may actually profit from strike by scooping these up at firesale prices and doing a vertical integration.
@@phillmckrakin2518 I'm not going to lose my job. I may have to transfer to a different plant - but I have faith that all will be well for my union family.
Because no one wants trash ass ev's it's just a political pawn for this trash ass president. As soon as we all realize that it's a fair market and if you want ICE vehicles you should be able to purchase that and if you want EV's you should be able to purchase that as well. But the forced market that this bullshit Biden administration is pushing will never work. Tesla is going to tank soon because our grids just aren't ready for all EV's 🤷
Ford just realizes give them what they want because as soon as they can go all EV they will and then they can fire 90% of their workforce and get robots for the rest. I want my ICE trucks but we all know the hybrid then all electrics are coming
Well no one wants trash ass ev's it's just a political pawn for this trash ass president. As soon as we all realize that it's a fair market and if you want ICE vehicles you should be able to purchase that and if you want EV's you should be able to purchase that as well or if you would rather purchase hybrid it should be available as well. Let the free market make the market!! But the forced market that this bullshit Biden administration is pushing will never work. Tesla is going to tank soon because our grids just aren't ready for all EV's 🤷
@@gerardomartinez3920 you don't have to be a robotic expert to know that every company would replace a person with a robot if they could make the same or more money. What is the reason all vehicle assembly jobs are not robots? I would guess when human is currently much better at doing that job but as robots get better and vehicles get less complicated, like in EVs, then then more companies especially vehicle manufacturers will use more robots and less humans. Especially after those workers demand more pay, less work, retirements, and etc, when a robot will only cost maintenance, repairs, reprogramming, and/or replacing. I don't want robots to take anyone's job, I am a union guy, I want all workers to make a living wage, get inflation raises every year, have a retirement, get paid sick time off, paid vacation, and have a high top pay, and safer working conditions, but I am just stating what will happen.
What they're not talking about is how CEOs are not going to be able to afford a new yacht this year, think about how they're going to feel when their other CEO friends show up with their new yachts and super yachts. 😮
It's none of your business what a CEO does with their money. A homeless person might see you and go "wow there they go again buying gas! Must be nice!" Your jealousy is no excuse to determine what anyone spends their money on. It's none of your damn business
They will still build junk, the door and hood gaps aren't straight and the metal body panels are wavy. The cars of the 60s and 70s had thicker metal and heavy chrome and not plastic and the average guy could fix it.The new junk of today is made cheap an has to many sensors and problems to go wrong.
It's just for Shawn Fain and his staff. Remember he's signing the deals. Doubt any of the uaw memners are delving into the details. Pretty much like Congress where nobody reads nothing, just signs.
these people willing to ratify scares me. never accept the 1st deal, lots of these older workers don't care about contracts they just wanna work cause their retiring in 2-3 years. We need to not accept this first agreement. We need to finally speak.
Everybody should take a hard look at what's offered and vote for what's best for them ......but let's be real here if the contract has 25%/cola/and a nice SB we both know it's passing.
@scoobiedoo2517 the entire semiconductor industry is spending tens of billions to move manufacturing back to the US, away from Taiwan, because there are more reasons than just wages to have jobs in one place or another. having major industries dependent on other countries can have national security implications.
No problem, Ford will just add these costs to the price of their cars. Victory for the union and Ford at the expense of the regular consumer. I think Ford forgot what made them successful. Build an affordable car that the everyday person could buy. People do not want $80,000+ F-150's
$20/hr is nothing for anyone. If minimum wage had kept up with inflation from when it was passed in 1968, it would be sitting around 25 bucks an hour. We've been negged and gaslit into expecting less as working people, all of us.
Well said mate i make at least 40 dollars australian in a milk factory and double that for overtime and work 4 days on 4 days of stick your guns comrades and dream big solidarity from down under cheers.
That's crazy especially when most of these workers don't even have a college degree. Wishful thinking there are plenty and I mean plenty of immigrants looking for work and don't need a Union or Union Dues and would be glad to have these jobs. You know Biden said immigrants would do the jobs American s didn't want to do.
In a few years Ford and GM will go bankrupt and have to be bailed out by the US tax payer. The America tax payer should not be on the hook to pay for bloated union salaries. Enough already.
That too... I'm a UAW worker and I don't come close to those numbers so I'm not sure where these opinionated ppl are getting their so called facts but WOW 🤣 just wow! 🤦🤦🤦 the amount of disinformation spread by ppl that aren't auto workers is mind blowing 🤦 ugh
@@williamtummler6903your friends disagree, according to them, they are paying 40%~50% taxes. So tell me, are they lying about their taxes for sympathy or are you lying about your income for sympathy?
I'd like to see the UAW work with GM to come to some deal that is fair and reasonable for everyone. But a 40% increase in pay for the UAW is unacceptable.
You don't understand how numbers work for regular people, and the people at the top. Re-assess once you understand the scale of what 40% means at the hourly wage compared to the corporate CEO. Then you will understand it's just.
Work to do you aw is only good for assembly plants don't join UAW if your parts supplier then fight for us at all they need open our contract we only got a 4% raise
Let’s be honest since the company is trying to scrounge your wages to fill their pockets. They try to reduce quality but keep the same price to make another buck.
