Want an American made car?
Maybe better get your finances in order and buy one soon.
'Cause soon there won't be any.
Ford is leading the charge:
Ford moving production of Focus and C-Max out of the US - Market Business News
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Ford announced that it will no longer produce the Focus and C-Max vehicles at its Michigan Assembly plant starting in 2018.
In a statement the American automotive giant said:
“We will move production of the next-generation Ford Focus and C-MAX, which currently are built at Michigan Assembly Plant, beginning in 2018.
The company did not say where production will be moving to. It only confirmed that it is looking at “several possible options”.
However, Bill Johnson, UAW Chairman, reportedly told UAW members at the plant that production of the Focus will move “to a location outside of the United States.”
We have a "1970's" blue fire engine where I work, that has not passed a "Pump Test" for the past 14 years I have worked at my current location. It has some problems with pumping, and the main water tank leaks water, light bar only half works....and other problems/ All of these problems documented by they have not been corrected. We need a F-550 mini-pumper / utility truck, I wonder if they will drop one off on their way out of the country
Three brand new trucks = F-150s bought last September and with in a month....6 weeks two were wrecked, and they have not been repaired. Those damages documented on the daily vehicle inspection form.
Previously...we had to drive a full size F-150 ( 2007 model ?? ) with a bad front end, sway bar deficient...and other mechanical problems....that if a mechanical accident would have happened while we were driving it.....one of us could have been seriously injured or worse. All the deficiencies documented on the daily inspection form, but not corrected. Documentation completed with the vehicle inspection forms that are filled out daily...and at the "plant garage". Mechanical problems with the F-150...were not corrected, and our Department Manager did not force the issue, investigate why the mechanical problems were not corrected...not take it upon himself to see why the problems was not/could not be corrected by communicating with the garage supervisor.
A manager whom - only attends meetings, conducts business off site, travels abroad and worries about the safety aspect of his job instead showing responsibility for the Security, Fire and EMS that he is supposed to oversee also. POOR leadership in my opinion, and he is getting paid for a job he does not fully do.
Chevy Pickups we previously had...the heaters did not work, fans would not work to defrost the windshield....and the Air Conditioners were broke. All problems documented....but the deficiency's were not fixed and our department manager at the time.....would not get us new vehicles....or repair the ones that were mechanically deficient. Our department manager....letting the department "take care of itself"...versus being proactive and taking a stance for the department and correcting deficiency's, and ordering our department the equipment we needed...instead of saying "I don't have the money"...which I do not believe to be true based on other items he spent money on....but not my department.
I told my cousin and his wife a few weeks ago, If I was in charge...."the bullshit" would stop. Favoritism, scheduling problems, unfair overtime...being having to work overtime when other personnel don't...and this has been a problems for 14 years. Work differences, favoritism in the department, double standards and double rules. Some people get off through out the year, and their vacation, while some of us only get out vacation. Some people get to trade shifts ( Person "A" works for person "B"......then person "A" gets paid back at a later date) and some department employees cannot get shift trades.
My job was contracted out...I lost about $900.00 a month in income, I lost three weeks paid vacation...only now getting one...and the first week I got of vacation for the new contracting company I had to pay for my vacation out of my own pocket...I was not paid for vacation. I my lost shift differential....paid sick leave.....retirement...and a host of other benefits, when some people work 6 or 7 1/2 hours a day...and make twice...OR more what I do. Sickening to me how some people can get by with that.
6 and 7 day work weeks....repetitively over months and years...is no fun !
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