{"id":190746,"date":"2009-10-29T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/29\/fords-unions-draw-a-line-in-the-sand\/"},"modified":"2009-10-29T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T21:03:00","slug":"fords-unions-draw-a-line-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/29\/fords-unions-draw-a-line-in-the-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford&#8217;s Unions Draw a Line in the Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been 6 plants so far that have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=aAYS7JUyb5Ec\">rejected Ford&#8217;s request concessions on their contracts<\/a> in order to match the terms at Chrysler and GM.<\/p>\n<p>I understand it.  If I were a worker on the Ford shop floor, and I had already made major concessions about 8 months ago, I&#8217;d want to make sure that the shareholders, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">including the Ford family<\/span>, were wiped out before I would give anything more:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>[UAW Local President Tom] Spears, who backed the contract changes, said in an interview. \u201cThe membership did not have a warm reception to additional contract modifications. We did this in \u201805, \u201807 and in February and now they\u2019re back at us again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, you will doubtless hear how these guys are being selfish and stupid, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">have<\/span> to give back more, but if you go through those same papers over the weeks before and after, you will find them defending the outrageous pay and bonus contracts as sacrosanct.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of like the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Droit_de_seigneur\">Droit de seigneur<\/a>, where of the local lord in the old days had the right to deflower any new bride, only with the banks, we <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">all<\/span> get f#$@ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been 6 plants so far that have rejected Ford&#8217;s request concessions on their contracts in order to match the terms at Chrysler and GM. I understand it. If I were a worker on the Ford shop floor, and I had already made major concessions about 8 months ago, I&#8217;d want to make sure &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,1023,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-labor","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}