Dec. 8, 2011 online at uawlocal2250.com
From Chairman Mike Bullock: Today will be the last day for 12 hour maximum line time to make up lost production due to the body shop breakdown on Monday. While there will still be some production to be made up, there will be no line times longer than 11 hours to make up this lost production.
Message from Joe Ashton and Cathy Clegg: As you know, during the 2011 Contract Negotiations, we agreed to a quality performance payout if we achieved our target for model year to date IPTV (Incidents per Thousand Vehicles) performance. We are pleased to report that our team achieved 98 percent performance, earning each eligible UAW-GM team member a bonus of $250, which will be in your December 16th check. The UAW-GM Team has always been known for building outstanding quality. Whether it is for stampings, power trains, components, service parts or vehicles, quality and customer service is at the heart of what we do every day in our operations. This year, our team has made outstanding progress. We have launched several successful vehicles, announced many product allocations, upgraded our manufacturing plants and created thousands of jobs. By the end of the year, we will also have all our team members back at work and begin bringing on new employees. Much of our success is due to the high quality we provide our customers. Congratulations and thanks again for your efforts. (Per the National Agreement: The eligibility date for this bonus was November 15. Eligible employees are defined as those with active seniority; on temporary layoff status; on leave pursuant to Family and Medical Leave Act; on one of the following leaves of absence which has not exceeded (90) days as of the eligibility date – Informal, Formal, Sickness and Accident, Military, and Educational)
Reminder: Tomorrow is the deadline to submit an employee referral. The phone number for logon ID or password reset help is 1-888-337-2400 (Opt 1-1-GMIN).
You are cordially invited to the UAW Local 2250 Christmas celebration to be held on Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Union Hall. Doors open at 6:30 pm and dinner is served at 7 pm. Snacks, beer and setups will be provided. Music, provided by Marlon “DJ” Brown, will run from 8 pm to midnight. Also on Dec. 10, Santa Claus will be coming to the Union Hall from 9 am to 11 am. Donuts, juice and coffee will be served. Bring your children and grandchildren and don’t forget your camera.
Contact Congress now! Today is National Call-In to Renew Unemployment Insurance Day! UAW members, tell your members of Congress to renew Unemployment Insurance for 2012. Call (888) 245-3381 or visit the unemployedworkers.orgcall-in feature on this page. Millions of hardworking Americans — nearly 2 million in January alone, and over 6 million in 2012 — will be cut off from the emergency lifeline of federal unemployment insurance, unless Congress acts to renew the program before it expires Dec. 31. In the past three years, federal unemployment insurance has helped more than 17 million Americans while they’ve looked for work in the toughest job market since the Great Depression. Recent U.S. Census Bureau figures show that federal unemployment insurance helped keep more than 3 million from falling into poverty last year alone. Congress has never allowed these programs to expire when unemployment was anywhere near this high for this long. Congress must act, and act now.
From the Detroit News: Ford Motor Co. wants to grow its lucrative commercial truck business as it shifts customers to a new line of vehicles. Ford is hoping E-Series (Econoline van) customers will seamlessly shift to a future version of the Ford Transit commercial van that will be built at the automaker's Kansas City plant and go on sale in 2013. Ford is investing more than $1 billion in the Kansas City plant to prepare for the Transit, add a stamping plant and add a second shift of F-Series production. The Transit will be 25 percent more fuel-efficient than a comparable E-Series in part because it will be more than 300 pounds lighter, said Derrick Kuzak, Ford's head of global product development. The move is in keeping with a sustainability plan Ford announced in 2006 that called for weight reduction of 250 to 750 pounds in all vehicles by 2020. The current Transit is built in Europe and sold everywhere but North America. About a dozen Transits are in the U.S. for a year of testing by fleet customers. The feedback will help ensure the next-generation Transit is a strong replacement for the E-Series, said Eric Guenther, general marketing manager for the Ford fleet. Even though the new Transit switches from body-on-frame to unibody construction, Ford is determined that durability will not be sacrificed, Kuzak said. For commercial customers, reliability and cost of ownership are paramount. Sullivan said Nissan's research before launching the NV commercial van found customers wanted body-on-frame on rough American roads. Like the E-Series it replaces, the Transit for North America will be rear-wheel drive. Big numbers are at stake. Ford has sold about 6 million Transits globally to date. Another 8 million E-Series have been sold since 1961, and 97 percent were to the commercial market, said Rod Stevens, commercial truck chief engineer. Ford is also investing $128 million to make its largest commercial vehicles at the Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake. The E-Series will be discontinued, but Ford will continue to make E-Series "cutaways" that are converted to motorhomes, U-Hauls and other service vehicles. The plant also will take over medium truck and motorhome chassis work that was being done in Mexico.
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