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BrianLaws
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| The United Auto Workers approved the two-year contract, which allows the company to kill the deal at any time based on demand. The temporary workers initially were concentrated within the third shift, but now they also staff the second shift. |
Wrong, I understand most of the senority workers like myself took either 1st or 3rd shift. Once again The Register Star back pedals to make it sound like their previous news article that I posted above sounds correct. Oh well, the ETE contract or lack of and where the state $MONEY$ went is more of an issue.
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The Belvidere plant is squeezing workers even as the state subsidizes its job creation. Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s administration pledged $36 million in grants and tax credits for the facility. In return DaimlerChrysler agreed to invest $419 million in its own infrastructure.
Doser, the UAW worker who belongs to the new temporary class at the Belvidere plant, said the state ought to focus on creating permanent jobs. He figures that $36 million can about cover the cost, at $36,000 a worker, of 1,000 temporary workers for a year.
“The state’s paying all of our wages for at least year,” he said. “If they got rid of us in a year, basically the state paid for us to make cars for Chrysler for a year. I think my tax dollars should be spent a little more wisely than that,”
Chrysler spokeswoman Michele Tinson said Friday that she was not prepared to comment on the appropriatness of state subsidies for companies creating jobs with inferior wages and benefits.
Blagojevich spokesman Andrew Ross said the $36 million in subsidies was intended to support the Belvidere plant’s second shift, launched last spring, and not the third shift launched in July. |
Well we know now the lack of contract for the ETE's does not require Chrysler to keep them a year. Most if not all of those 80 or so ETE's that were let go didn't see a 40 hour work week did they? 
I'm very interested to see how this ends, but there is no fixing the jobs these people left (even the longtime part-time employees) because the company used the words contract and temporary when refering to employment. This is much like using the words wet and dry when refering to the same thing, it's either or. 
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georgesparents
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:25 am Post subject: |
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If Chrysler got all that money to pay our wages for a year, why did they let the ETE's go? Needing a little more money? State people, are you thinking of that? |
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uaw4us2
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| If Chrysler got all that money to pay our wages for a year, why did they let the ETE's go? Needing a little more money? State people, are you thinking of that? |
the money from the state was for training. furthermore, it was part of the deal when the addition of the 2nd shift was talked about. the 3rd shift was above and beyond.
i wish there would have been specific numeric stipulations to employment levels - but i doubt there were. not sure though. all any of us can do is speculate at this point since that was between the state and DCX. |
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BrianLaws
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An ETE that was working in my team and received the layoff with other ETEs last week. Management knew of this ETEs layoff notice and never trained anyone for the open spot on the team. I covered that open position all last night while the group leader goes around asking if anyone wants to go home, seems they had too many people. How do you have too many people and need someone to go home when a team leader is covering an open position?
Seems they are looking at eliminating team leaders too, which might be why they have not filled this position yet.
Please let me remind everyone that if you have a defect make sure you write it up in the computer,PFS no matter how small. If you just tell your team leader and they fix it without being wrote up the team FTC % looks better to management than what the actual % should be and you might loose your team leader because of it. Also if the team leader fails to fix the defect correctly your name is on that car and you will receive a ding on your job performance record for it. |
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chad_palmer
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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has anybody heard of anything that is going to be happening?? I need to know for this other job that I am looking onto!!!
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BrianLaws
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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I have not heard anything. 
Last night I just started to train a fulltime person to take your spot. Be safe and move on for now Chad. |
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georgesparents
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Tonight I heard at work through gossp that by the end of the month there's going to be another layoff, and also Thursday there is supposed to be a temporary worker walk-out, has anyone else heard about this? |
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chad_palmer
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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thanks brian, i had an interview yesterday, he has to go through my references before i can get the job, it is a government job so itll take about 2 weeks hopefully it works out
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BrianLaws
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@ georgesparents - I do THINK there are going to be more layoff's and we all know who that will be, more ETE's. They are working really hard at eliminating jobs, I know first hand in group 11. They don't seem to care if they eliminate the job before they have a replacement either, they have team leaders to cover the open job.
@Chad - Hope things work out for you. I really hope to see you at least get called in Mon & Fri sometime soon. If not, keep in touch. |
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JPaint
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Lets just be clear here. There will be no layoffs for ETEs, there will only be terminations. We have absolutely no recall rights. If you are told that your time is up, you are not laid off, your contract is terminated. |
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I would hope that all ETE's are exploring their options as far as gainful employment "Post" BAP.
I'm fairly sure our contract keeps us from seeking employment with the surrounding unionized suppliers I.E. - TDS/US
What's the current rules on transfers bumping "in place" BAP seniority members?
Some of my reading stated that a large majority of new transfers are high seniority Union members.
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If a 20 year "Syracuse" DCX transfer comes to BAP, can they bump a 10 Year BAP that didn't "bid" for the job they are working? Can they even if the job was "bid" on?
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