August 29, 200618 yr Author From the 8/29/06 DDN: Delphi's new hires must await wage accord Hundreds of jobs will come open when current workers take the buyout offers and retirement incentives. By John Nolan Staff Writer Tuesday, August 29, 2006 KETTERING — Delphi Corp. plans to hire hundreds of temporary workers at its Dayton-area plants to replace employees who will leave through a buyout program. But some of the new hires won't be deployed until wage agreements are reached, a spokesman said Monday. Delphi spokesman Lindsey Williams said the auto parts maker hopes to agree soon with the International Union of Electronic Workers-Communications Workers of America on wages for those who will replace the departing employees at the Kettering and Moraine plants the union represents. The company had negotiated an agreement in the 1990s at the Kettering shock-absorbers plant to pay $8 an hour to new hires, said Willie Thorpe, chairman of the IUE-CWA Automotive Conference Board. But those wages aren't likely high enough to attract the numbers of new workers Delphi will need at Kettering, Moraine and other plants it eventually wants to close, Thorpe said Monday. ....... Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or [email protected]. http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/ddn082906delphi.html From the 8/29/06 PD: Buyouts at GM will hit Parma in wallet Tuesday, August 29, 2006 Thomas Ott Plain Dealer Reporter Parma Buyouts that will slash a third of General Motors' Parma workforce will also take a big bite out of the city's budget. More than 860 of 2,500 workers will leave the Parma metal-stamping plant by the end of the year, plant spokesman Dave Nedrich said. The departures and cuts in overtime will take a toll on city income tax collections. The city's take from GM employees, which totaled $4.1 million last year, will plummet to $2.7 million by the end of next year, city Treasurer Anthony Zielinski estimates. A gain in income taxes from two hospitals and small businesses is expected to offset the loss, but expenses are rising. Though voters agreed in May to raise Parma's income tax, the city must figure out how to plug a $2 million gap in next year's budget, Auditor Dennis Kish said. ..... http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1156854603289890.xml&coll=2
August 31, 200618 yr Author From the 8/30/06 Warren Tribune Chornicle: IUE-CWA, Delphi talk staff levels By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle VIENNA— Nothing was resolved after a four-hour meeting Tuesday between national Delphi Corp. and union bargainers about how Delphi Packard Electric will operate with a depleted work force, the local union chief negotiator said. ‘‘We had thorough discussions of issues and options, but we reached no agreement on how to deal with them. That will be left for another day,’’ International Union of Electrical Workers-Communications Workers of America Local 717 Shop Chairman Don Arbogast said. Arbogast said a couple of members of Delphi Corp.’s national negotiating team came to Warren to meet with their union counterparts after he asked for a meeting last week. .... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=8135
August 31, 200618 yr Author From the 8/31/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Delphi hires outside company By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle WARREN — Delphi Corp.’s hiring of a company to manage its staffing needs isn’t related to Delphi’s efforts to replace union workers who left under an attrition plan, a spokesman for the auto parts maker said Wednesday. ‘‘This is not a labor announcement. It’s for administrative services,’’ Lindsey Williams said. ‘‘Delphi has with a number of contract suppliers. This names one supplier who will manage’’ the suppliers. Delphi, which is reorganizing in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reached agreement for Bartech Workforce Management to serve as master vendor for Delphi’s North American contract work force, Bartech said Monday. ..... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=8162
September 2, 200618 yr Author From the 9/1/06 PD: Ford to offer Walton Hills job buyouts Friday, September 01, 2006 Christopher Jensen Plain Dealer Auto Editor Ford plans to offer buyouts to hourly workers at its Walton Hills Stamping Plant, a Ford spokeswoman said Thursday. The automaker is hoping about 200 of the 800 hourly workers will take the packages, said one source familiar with the plan. The buyouts continue the withering of Ford employment and the loss of well-paid manufacturing jobs in the region. Early in the 1980s, Ford had about 16,000 hourly workers in Northeast Ohio. Executives often referred to Cleveland as Ford's "second city," because only Detroit had more Ford workers. Now Ford's Web site shows the area has about 6,000 hourly workers - before the Walton Hills buyouts... To reach this Plain Dealer reporter: [email protected], 216-999-4830 http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business/1157100315274620.xml&coll=2
September 3, 200618 yr Only 35k??? That's terrible. I was thinking the 100k range since they make 80-120k a year. My friend, who works at the Batavia plant is going to be hurting BIG TIME.
September 8, 200618 yr Author From the 9/7/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Delphi seeks billions from GM By staff, wire report NEW YORK — General Motors Corp. owes $26 billion to Delphi Corp., an investor committee for the auto parts maker said in a bankruptcy court filing. The committee representing shareholders at Delphi said in papers filed late Monday that its calculation shows the automaker has obligations to its biggest supplier, which was spun off from GM in 1999. GM, for its part, has filed an unsecured multibillion-dollar claim against Delphi, the parent of Warren- based Delphi Packard Electric said in papers filed last month. ... http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=8462 From the 9/7/06 Business Journal: Packard Workers Exiting Plants No Word on Hiring Replacements Sept. 7, 2006 7:29 a.m. By Dan O'Brien WARREN, Ohio – More than 700 hourly employees have left their jobs at Delphi Packard Electric Systems over the last three weeks as the massive attrition plan begins to take hold in the Mahoning Valley. Don Arbogast, shop chairman of Local 717 of the International Union of Electrical Workers-Communications Workers of America, says every day more and more of the 3,130 workers who accepted buyouts in mid-August at Delphi Packard retire or quit."Hundreds of people have left since this process began," Arbogast says. Delphi Packard's 3,800 hourly employees had until Aug. 8 to sign up for an attrition plan that offered workers incentives ranging from $35,000 to $140,000 to either retire or sever all ties with the company. Initially, 3,385 employees accepted a buyout but 255 changed their minds and opted to stay with the company. That means about 670 hourly employees will left to run Delphi's Mahoning Valley operations, which once employed more than 12,500. Delphi had targeted trimming Packard's hourly work force to 1,033, but the buyouts attracted more workers than expected. ... http://www.business-journal.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=257&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1711&hn=business-journal&he=.com
September 8, 200618 yr Author From the 9/8/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Talks called ‘mess’ By staff, wire reports DETROIT — The president of the United Auto Workers said Thursday that wage and benefit negotiations with bankrupt auto parts supplier Delphi Corp. and General Motors Corp. are a ‘‘mess,’’ blaming greed. ‘‘We’re just very frustrated with that mess,’’ Ron Gettelfinger said of the union’s bargaining with Delphi and GM, its former parent. Delphi, which is under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, should be competitive with concessions already agreed to by the UAW, including early retirements and buyouts for hourly workers, he said. ... http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=8502
September 12, 200618 yr Author From the 9/12/06 DDN: Retiree trying to recoup funds from Delphi Man has filed a claim with the bankruptcy court to get back $38,000 he lost due to the auto parts supplier's performance. By John Nolan Staff Writer Tuesday, September 12, 2006 DAYTON — John Walling, who retired from Delphi Corp. in 2002, says Delphi's declining business performance dragged down the market value of the company stock he bought for years as an employee. As a result, he lost more than $38,000 when he sold the stock he had acquired for $120,000, he said. Walling, 62, of Dayton has filed a creditor's claim for that amount with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, which will determine how much the reorganizing Delphi pays its creditors. But, Walling conceded: "I doubt very much I'll ever see any of it." ... Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or [email protected]. http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/business/2006/09/11/ddn091206delphicreditor.html
September 15, 200618 yr Author From the 9/13/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Some Delphi checks in mail By RAYMOND L. SMITH Tribune Chronicle WARREN — Former Delphi Packard Electric employee Katherine Pesa did not want to leave the auto parts maker after only 12 years on the job. However, the major reshuffling in the auto industry made it clear her job was not secure. So when Delphi offered a $140,000 buyout, Pesa agreed to sever ties from the company from which she had hoped to retire. Today, six weeks after leaving Delphi, Pesa and about a dozen other former employees say they still have not received their buyout checks. ... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=8719
September 15, 200618 yr Author From the 9/14/06 Youngstown Vindicator: Unions doubt agreement is near Progress is being made in Delphi talks, but it may not be enough. By DON SHILLING VINDICATOR BUSINESS EDITOR One of Delphi Corp.'s unions says a new labor contract won't be reached before a court hearing Monday, while another says a deal is doubtful. If negotiators come up empty, the showdown is set to move back to bankruptcy court in New York, where a judge is considering scrapping the current labor contracts and letting Delphi impose its own terms. Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United Auto Workers, said at an automotive conference Tuesday that no deal would be struck by Monday, a union spokesman told Bloomberg News. Union officials could not be reached to comment Wednesday morning. ... [email protected] http://www.vindy.com/content/local_regional/287898833182499.php
September 15, 200618 yr Ford slashes 10,000 more jobs, 2 plants By TOM KRISHER, Associated Press Writer DETROIT - Ford Motor Co. said Friday that it plans to cut 10,000 more salaried jobs, offer buyouts to all hourly workers and shut down two more plants as part of a dramatic restructuring plan designed to rein in expenses and restore the struggling automaker to profitability. The company said in a news release that it would shutter a stamping plant in Maumee, Ohio, in 2008 and an engine plant in Essex, Ontario, in 2007. In addition, an assembly plant in Norfolk, Va., will close in 2007, a year earlier than previously announced. Ford said it would complete its cuts of 25,000 to 30,000 hourly jobs by the end of the 2008, four years ahead of its previous target.... http://ap-2733.newsvine.com/
September 15, 200618 yr The bleeding continues....MAJOR blow to Maumee and Lucas County. 620 high paying jobs gone...
September 15, 200618 yr Local Ford plants dodge direct hits Post staff and wire DETROIT - Ford Motor Co. plants in Sharonville and Batavia dodged direct hits today as the automaker announced plans to cut 10,000 more salaried jobs, offer buyouts to all hourly workers and shut down two more plants. Ford's move is part of a dramatic restructuring plan designed to rein in expenses and restore the struggling automaker to profitability. The company said in a news release that it would shutter a stamping plant in Maumee, Ohio, in 2008 and an engine plant in Essex, Ontario, in 2007. In addition, an assembly plant in Norfolk, Va., will close in 2007, a year earlier than previously announced... http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060915/BIZ/609150367/1001/BIZ
September 16, 200618 yr Map of Ford plants in Ohio.... and this doesn't even show the impact on suppliers to those plants or local businesses to whom the $$$ from employee paychecks trickle down.
September 16, 200618 yr Author From the 9/15/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Delphi to hire temp workers By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle WARREN — Delphi Packard Electric will begin hiring as many as 300 temporary workers so current employees can train for new jobs in the auto parts maker’s ‘‘core’’ plants, the chief local union negotiator said Thursday. But the agreement — reached after 2 a.m. Thursday at the end of a long day of bargaining at a Troy, Mich., hotel — doesn’t solve thornier problems of how to hire about 300 permanent workers the division will need, or how much remaining workers will get in wages and benefits, said Don Arbogast, shop chairman of Local 717 with the International Union of Electrical Workers-Communications Workers of America. ‘‘This is not hiring normal employees. They can’t go into the core plants,’’Arbogast said, referring to Plants 10 and 11 in the North River Road complex, the Cortland and Vienna plastic injection molding factories and another plant in Rootstown. ... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=8794
September 16, 200618 yr Author From the AP, 9/16/06: Delphi's hearings on labor, supply contracts have been postponed Associated Press Saturday, September 16, 2006 NEW YORK — — The bankruptcy court hearings to determine whether Delphi Corp. can reject its labor agreements and certain supply contracts with General Motors Corp. have been postponed, the company said on Friday. Delphi, which was part of GM until it was spun off in 1999, said the court had granted further adjournments in both cases. It has scheduled a Sept. 28 status conference with the judge presiding over its bankruptcy case. Friday was also the deadline for a second wave of UAW-represented Delphi employees to accept buyout offers. About 12,600 hourly employees have already taken early retirement offers. ... http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/business/2006/09/16/ddn091606delphi.html
September 16, 200618 yr Author From the 9/16/06 Dispatch: Job cuts by Ford a big loss for state Automaker’s moves could ax 3,800 from work force in Ohio Saturday, September 16, 2006 Paul Wilson and Mike Pramik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Ohio took another hit from the struggling U.S. auto industry yesterday as Ford Motor Co. said it will eliminate nearly 700 jobs in the state by 2008. Besides closing a stamping plant in Maumee, near Toledo, to cut those jobs, Ford also said it plans to sell or close a 1,700-worker plant near Sandusky that makes auto parts. The Ohio cuts arrived as part of a sweeping restructuring that will eliminate a total of 14,000 salaried Ford employees and close an engine plant in Essex, Ontario. The company said earlier this year that it will close a plant near Cincinnati where nearly 1,500 workers build transmissions.... [email protected] [email protected] http://www.dispatch.com/business-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/09/16/20060916-A1-04.html From the 9/16/06 Enquirer: Ford Batavia plant workers ponder options BY MIKE BOYER | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER Howard Eldridge, 52, of Mount Orab, who works at Ford Motor Co.'s Batavia plant, has been offered buyouts at least four times in his 32 years with the automaker. Each time, he turned them down. This time he's not so sure. "It's a very scary situation, and we're operating in a vacuum,'' he said Friday in the wake of the announcement that Ford will offer buyouts and other early-retirement incentives to all 75,000 of its North American workers represented by the United Auto Workers. "We need some information, and we're not getting it." The automaker said it needs to accelerate plans to cut 30,000 hourly jobs by four years, to 2008, and is trimming 14,000 salaried jobs in the same time frame. Ford aims to reduce its operating costs by $5 billion and stop an increasing flow of red ink while it tries to redesign its autos and trucks to make them more attractive to American consumers.... Staff writer John Eckberg contributed. E-mail [email protected] http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060916/BIZ01/609160339/1076/rss01 From the 9/16/06 Enquirer: PHOTO: Mike Guthrie, 33, (right), watches news coverage of the closing of the Ford Maumee Stamping Plant where he works, along with Max Jobe, 54, in Maumee, Ohio. The Associated Press / J.D. Pooley PHOTO: Auto worker Lamont Jenkins talks about Ford's announcement Friday that neither of its Kentucky plants would be closed, after stopping at the United Auto Workers hall to play basketball. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS / ED REINKE Sharonville mayor is hopeful Ford jobs safe for now, he says BY MIKE BOYER | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER Despite speculation that Ford Motor Co.'s accelerated restructuring plan could cut employment at the Sharonville Transmission plant in half, the city's mayor said he's been told by company officials that won't happen. As recently as a week and a half ago, Mayor Virgil Lovitt said he asked Ford officials about rumors that the plant, a fixture in Sharonville since 1958, might see employment cut from its current 1,800 to about 800. "What they told me was that with volume of work now at the plant and with the volume of work they expect to bring in next year, there's no way the plant could operate with 1,000 fewer workers,'' Lovitt said... The Associated Press contributed. E-mail [email protected] http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060916/BIZ01/609160333/1076/rss01 From the 9/16/06 Lorain Morning Journal: Ford plant safe in Avon Lake, for now ALEX M. PARKER, Morning Journal Writer 09/16/2006 AVON LAKE -- City and county officials breathed a collective sigh of relief yesterday morning after learning the Ohio Assembly Plant on Abbe Road was not on the chopping block of cuts Ford Motor Co. announced to its workers by television. But the relief was quickly followed by an uneasy question -- ''We're OK for now, but for how long?'' ''The future of Ohio Assembly is still up in the air,'' Avon Lake Mayor Rob Berner said... Sandusky Bureau Chief Richard Payerchin contributed to this report. http://www.morningjournal.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=17205918&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=566374&rfi=8 From the 9/16/06 Toledo Blade: PHOTO: Workers leave the Maumee Stamping Plant, one of nine plants Ford plans to close by 2008 in a cost-saving move. ( THE BLADE/DAVE ZAPOTOSKY ) PHOTO: A worker leaving the Maumee Stamping Plant gives a thumbs down to Ford Motor Company’s announcement that it plans to close the Illinois Avenue plant in 2008. ( THE BLADE/DAVE ZAPOTOSKY ) FACTORY CLOSINGS Ford to shut Maumee plant; stamping operation to close in 2008 By JULIE M. McKINNON BLADE BUSINESS WRITER In a sweeping move to save billions of dollars, financially shell-shocked Ford Motor Co. yesterday added its Maumee Stamping Plant to a growing list of factory closings and indicated three other area parts plants could be next. The automaker said it would chop 44,000 jobs within two years and shutter 16 factories by 2012, moves that it says will save it $5 billion a year. It was the firm's third restructuring plan in five years. Included were buyouts, up to $140,000 each, offered to all 75,000 U.S. hourly workers... Contact Julie M. McKinnon at: [email protected] or 419-724-6087. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060916/BUSINESS02/609160359/-1/RSS04 From the 9/16/06 Toledo Blade: PHOTO: Maumee Stamping Plant employee Don Hensley discusses the closure with Stephanie Swicegood at the Break Room Lounge. ( THE BLADE/DAVE ZAPOTOSKY ) PHOTO: Dennis Sanders said he hopes to transfer from Maumee to a Ford plant in Ypsilanti, Mich., where he worked for 16 years. ( THE BLADE/DAVE ZAPOTOSKY ) Workers preparing for difficult choices after jobs disappear By HOMER BRICKEY BLADE SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER When workers learned yesterday that Ford Motor Co.'s Maumee Stamping Plant will close by 2008, many quickly figured out their game plan. "I'm taking the buyout," said Chuck Evans of Maumee, a 59-year-old tool-and-die worker, with 34 years at Ford. He guessed that almost all in his age and seniority range will make the same decision. Dennis Sanders, 44, said he plans to transfer. The welder-assembler from Sylvania Township hopes to get back in a Ford plant near Ypsilanti, Mich., where he worked for 16 of his 18 years at the company... Contact Homer Brickey at: [email protected] or 419-724-6129. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060916/BUSINESS02/609160394/-1/RSS04 From the 9/16/06 ABJ: Area Ford dealers look to future Local franchise owners hope sales will rebound after U.S. automaker announces buyout offers By Betty Lin-Fisher Beacon Journal business writer Area Ford dealers say they are hoping sales will pick up now that Ford has removed the uncertainty about the actions it intended to take. "I think the state of limbo that we've been in prior to these announcements... does more harm than the actual announcement,'' said Rich Klaben, one of the principals in the Klaben Auto Group, which owns Klaben Ford and Klaben Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge, both in Kent... Betty Lin-Fisher can be reached at 330-996-3724 or [email protected]. http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/business/15534350.htm?source=rss&channel=ohio_business
September 17, 200618 yr Author From the 9/17/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Delphi delays seen as good By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle WARREN — Union leaders aren’t convinced that another delay in hearings on Delphi Corp.’s motion to scrap its labor contract indicates progress toward a resolution, but two veteran industry analysts believe it does. ‘‘I think they’re getting close,’’ David Cole, the much-quoted chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., said after hearings that were scheduled to begin Monday in Judge Robert Drain’s Lower Manhattan court room were postponed indefinitely. ‘‘I don’t think the bankruptcy judge would provide this kind of delay if they weren’t.’’ Cole pointed to optimistic comments by General Motors Corp. Chairman Rick Wagoner that GM could reach terms with its Delphi, former auto parts unit, on financial support issues. The door then would be open for a settlement with the unions. Delphi’s latest wage offer of $16.50 an hour requires GM to make up the difference over Delphi’s original $12 an hour wage proposal. ... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=8836
September 18, 200618 yr This should be where I get on my soapbox and tell people that they should have bought American but I can't. Ford and GM haven't offered attractive looking models for average American's for years. The interiors of Ford cars have always been sub-par in my opinion and I have been in enough of them as I rent from Hertz on businesss travel.
September 18, 200618 yr "Stefanini said his Ford dealerships have had a bit of a lull after coming off the most successful buying program ever -- zero percent financing for 72 months -- last week." What does that say about their vehicles if their most successful sales came from offering absurdly low financing - rather than actually offering such wonderful product? Monte, I have to agree - domestic automakers are able to be forward-looking when it comes to the bottom line, and that's a sad way to approach business. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
September 18, 200618 yr ^^ Meanwhile, the issue gets more complicated when American car companies export a sizable portion of jobs overseas and higher-quality, equally affordable "foreign" companies start manufacturing in the United States. The vast majority of my is from Detroit, and after seeing the local auto industry's model of treating workers as dispensable, they've had enough and no longer support Ford or GM. When you start losing people who swore by "Buy American" for decades, you're in pretty big trouble.
September 18, 200618 yr According to some of the brightest economic minds in the state, buying American isn't really that effective anymore. Many Hondas are built in Ohio with more US-made parts than Ford uses for its cars.
September 19, 200618 yr The closing of the Maumee plant and the impact on the local community is going to be the subject of Nightline on ABC tonight (Tuesday night)
September 20, 200618 yr Author From the 9/19/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Delphi temp jobs attractive By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle LIBERTY — Tom Bettura of Girard sees $10 an hour as decent pay, especially since he’s been unemployed for nearly 1 1/2 years. Ditto for Cortland resident Heather Bailey, who’s working for minimum wage. They were two of the hundreds of hopefuls who showed up at the Holiday Inn Metroplex Monday to apply for as many as 300 temporary production jobs at Delphi Packard Electric. More candidates are expected today as applications are being accepted from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Thursday. Applications also will be taken during the same time Monday through Thursday next week, according to Frank Flaminio, supervisor of the Trumbull County One-Stop, which coordinated the event with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and Mahoning County workers. ... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=8963
September 20, 200618 yr Author From the 9/16/06 Lima News: PHOTO: Factory workers at the Lima Ford Engine Plant leave work Friday as they are replaced by other workers during the 3 p.m. shift change. Ford announced more cuts and closings on Friday. (Lima News photo by JENICA MILLER) Ford job cuts voluntary - for now BY TIM RAUSCH - Sep. 16, 2006 LIMA — This time the decision to leave will be more voluntary for salaried employees of Ford Motor Co. Lima Engine Plant. The last time there was a white-collar job cut at Ford, 30 people were fired from the Lima plant as part of an effort to trim 4,000 from the corporation’s payroll. Ford announced Friday that it wants to cut another 10,000 salaried jobs as part of an accelerated cost-cutting plan... http://www.limanews.com/story.php?IDnum=29939 From the 9/20/06 Toledo Blade: Ford closure to hit Maumee schools' budget By JOE VARDON BLADE STAFF WRITER Maumee City Schools stands to lose a substantial amount of money when Ford Motor Co. closes its Maumee Stamping Plant in 2008, district Treasurer Paul Brotzki said yesterday. Mr. Brotzki is still making revisions to his extended financial forecast following Ford's announcement Friday, but he told The Blade the school district could have a deficit of about $300,000 by June, 2009. According to the Lucas County Auditor's Office, the Maumee school district receives $211,300 in real estate taxes and $642,600 in personal property taxes annually from the stamping plant... Contact Joe Vardon at: [email protected] or 419-410-5055. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060920/NEWS04/609200431/-1/NEWS Also from the 9/20/06 Toledo Blade: Area called unlikely to lose dealerships in cuts By JULIE M. McKINNON BLADE BUSINESS WRITER As Ford Motor Co. looks to consolidate dealerships nationwide - and eliminate up to 600 of nearly 4,400 Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury stores - the Toledo area likely isn't a target, dealers and experts say. Instead, the financially troubled automaker is looking at larger metropolitan areas with numerous dealerships, such as Chicago, Dallas, and Detroit, one local dealer said... Contact Julie M. McKinnon at: [email protected] or 419-724-6087. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060920/BUSINESS02/609200386/-1/RSS04
September 21, 200618 yr Honda's made here in Ohio...but the profit goes to Japan What is the price of a Honda vs an American car HERE..vs th price in Japan? How much does a Silverado 1500 cost here vs Japan? Is there REALLY fair trade? Oh that's right...it is the workers that drove these companies out of the US...but the funny thing is, they pay foreign workers next to nothing, there is more automation than 30 years ago (less wage pay)...but somehow even WITH the free trade...the price of American cars keep going UP! With all these "savings"..should the prices level off or even go down..that way the US could outsell out foreign counterparts? I bet people would be interested to know the subsidies that foreign companies get from their country. Hell, even OUR country helps them out. As far as quality...that is such a load of crap. I have bought American(GM) my whole life had never had problems. I had a Chevy pick up when I was a teenager..I got 120,000K miles when I sold it, when I saw the guy that bought it a while after..he had over 200,000k miles. Yes, the FUEL economy sucked on American cars in the 80's in comparison...and there WERE some problems...but that stigma sticks today with no real substance. I hear people always spout off that foreign cars are built "better"..when I ask for specific examples, I never really get a valid point. YES..there are exceptions..SOME US cars have had problems..but then again, so have foreign cars! If these companies would spend more time investing in the USA, changing the old image that the cars ere aren't as good...instead of screwing the public, moving jobs, and caring about nothing more than pure profit...we all might be better off! Remember, for every auto job lost, there are many other jobs that are lost due to the fact that "feeder" companies rely on other industries. Let's face it...republican, democrat, whatever...business runs this country....who can do what for whom..money talks..and the govt listens. This country is heading in a scary direction IMO. All these cuts may only affect the "stupid blue collar guy"...but when enough of those guys aren't working, can't find work, and can't feed their families...who is going to buy the products that the smart white collar guy is selling? A country can't survive on service and cubicle jobs alone. We need to manufacture things as well. Unfortunately, the way our country has set itself up...we have lost that power. :cry:
September 21, 200618 yr Wait. The profits are taxed just like any other company. And where do profits goto anyway?? SHAREHOLDERS
September 21, 200618 yr Here's the transcript.... SHOW: ABC Nightline 11:47 PM EST ABC September 19, 2006 Tuesday (Off-camera) More bad news for the beleaguered Ford Motor Company today, as two agencies load its credit rating further into junk status. It's been a tough season for American automakers, especially Ford, which is slashing jobs by the tens of thousands after losing more than a billion dollars in just the last few months. And for the communities who've fed from the hands of the Big Three, there are consequences, like learning that the company wants to close the stamping plant, where Ford car parts are made. 'Nightline's" John Donvan reports from Maumee, Ohio. GRAPHICS: MAP OF OHIO JOHN DONVAN (ABC NEWS)(Voiceover) Here's the kind of place Maumee, Ohio was before Ford announced it was taking away 700 jobs. An American city of 15,000 people, with the charm and friendly feel of a small, American town, where they figured out how to hold on to the past, like this 1940s theater they resurrected as a community center. And on the night, they hold their annual holiday light parade, practically every club and mom-and-pop shop in town enters a float. And that guy hugging Santa, that's actually the mayor of Maumee, maestro of this sort of typical Maumee moment. Then, last Friday happened.... http://www.abcnightline.com/
September 24, 200618 yr Author From the 9/22/06 DDN: Union boss says Delphi will close Moraine plant Willie Thorpe believes it will happen next year, adds that work may go to Mexico. By John Nolan Staff Writer Friday, September 22, 2006 KETTERING — Union leader Willie Thorpe expects that sometime next year, Delphi Corp. will close its Moraine automotive compressors factory and transfer production to Mexico. Thorpe, chairman of the International Union of Electronic Workers-Communications Workers of America's Automotive Conference Board, is watching the painful impact of plant closings, worker layoffs, buyouts and retirements unfold. About 600 of the Moraine plant's 850 workers have accepted buyout or early retirement offers to leave the work force by Jan. 1. It is the same plant where Thorpe, as president of the union's Local 801 in the 1990s, negotiated labor contracts for 3,400 members at that time. ... http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/business/2006/09/22/ddn092206delphi.html
September 24, 200618 yr Author From the 9/23/06 Toledo Blade: STAMPING PLANT Area, state leaders meet with Ford Nearly two dozen local and state officials met with a Ford Motor Co. representative yesterday in an attempt to understand - and perhaps reverse - the decision to close the company's stamping plant in Maumee. The meeting lasted 1 1/2 hours and gave representatives from the city, schools, union leaders, and elected officials from the county, state, and national level a chance to ask questions, discuss incentive ideas, and express their willingness to help keep the plant open or to devise strategies to find a buyer for it when it closes in 2008, Maumee Mayor Tim Wagener said... http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060923/BUSINESS02/609230390/-1/BUSINESS
September 25, 200618 yr From radio rip-and-read... New Use In Works For Vacant Auto Plant 09-25-2006 5:51 AM (Lorain, OH) -- An announcement is pending regarding the future of the vacant Ford plant in Lorain. City officials say the basic pieces of an agreement to bring a new tenant and new jobs to the factory are in place and talks continue on the final details. The Lorain Assembly Plant was shuttered last year. Ford officials still own the property, and are mum on its future. Community leaders expect a new owner to divide the factory to attract smaller companies. ### "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 27, 200618 yr Author From the AP, 9/25/06: Planning for life after Ford BY CONNIE MABIN | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND – Shuttered plants. Thousands of good-paying jobs lost. Retiree benefits at risk. Global competition. An uncertain future. Those words describe the situation now confronting 75,000 Ford Motor Co. employees, faced with plant closings and buyouts as the company moves forward with its plan to cut 30,000 jobs and get business back on track. And last week, DaimlerChrysler AG announced it will cut retail shipments by 16 percent to reduce a backlog in dealers’ lots, which means some plants will see temporary shutdowns between now and the end of the year. They’re words they United Auto Workers union has heard before from a brethren industry – the one that produces the steel for the cars they build... http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060925/BIZ/309250002/-1/rss
September 28, 200618 yr Author Both from the 9/26/06 Business Journal: 13,800 UAW Members to Leave Delphi Sept. 26, 2006 5:20 p.m. TROY, Mich. -- Delphi Corp., the nation’s largest supplier of automotive components and one of the Mahoning Valley’s largest employers, announced today 13,800 hourly employees represented by the United Auto Workers will either retire or leave the company for good. Delphi reported 1,400 UAW members elected to take buyouts and 12,400 opted to retire under an attrition agreement reached in March between the company and the UAW, which represents about 24,000 hourly employees. Nearly all of Delphi’s U.S. hourly employees represented by the UAW were eligible for buyout and retirement incentives ranging from $35,000 to $140,000. ... http://www.business-journal.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=5751&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1711&hn=business-journal&he=.com 2,130 Apply for 300 Delphi Jobs; Job Fair Continues Through Thursday Sept. 26, 2006 Updated 5:21 p.m. By Dan O’Brien WARREN, Ohio – Job seekers looking for temporary positions at Delphi Packard Electric Systems outnumber available jobs by more than seven to one -- and applications will continue to be accepted through Thursday. At last count, more than 2,130 applicants had filled out forms for 300 available positions at Delphi Packard plants in Mahoning Valley. Applications are being taken at a job fair held by Trumbull County One-Stop at the Holiday Inn Metroplex. The job fair resumes today, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and will continue tomorrow and Thursday. Bill Turner, an administrator at One-Stop, said he expected a large turnout. “It’s hard to say how many more will come through,” he said, noting the response probably won’t be as strong as last week. “We’ll gauge it day-by-day,” he said. ... http://www.business-journal.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=5710&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1711&hn=business-journal&he=.com
September 28, 200618 yr Author From the 9/27/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: 1,400 more accept Delphi buyout offer By staff, wire report DETROIT — Another 1,400 hourly workers have decided to accept auto supplier Delphi Corp.’s buyout offers, meaning that the struggling company will lose more than 70 percent of its work force by the end of the year. Delphi released the buyout numbers Tuesday, bringing to 20,100 the number of its production workers who have decided to leave this year either through buyout offers or early retirement packages. Delphi had 27,500 unionized workers as of June 30, and 12,400 United Auto Workers union members previously accepted early retirement and buyout offers. Another 6,300 members of the International Union of Electronic Workers-Communications Workers of America also will take buyouts or early retirements, Delphi said. ... http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=9265 From the 9/26/06 Dayton Business Journal: Thousands of local Delphi workers take buyout options Dayton Business Journal - 10:51 AM EDT Wednesday Nearly 2,400 local Delphi Corp. workers will leave their jobs through buyouts or early retirement, the company said late Tuesday. The bankrupt automaker offered the deals to scale back its labor costs and prepare for potential plant closings. Delphi has said it would like to close or sell four of its five plants in the Dayton area. For the first time, the company broke down the retirements and buyouts by plant. ... E-mail [email protected]. Call 222-6900. http://dayton.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2006/09/25/daily10.html?surround=lfn From the 9/27/06 Dispatch: Delphi workers take buyouts Georgesville Road operations mostly staffed by temporary employees now Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Paul Wilson THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH All of Delphi Corp.’s full-time hourly employees in Columbus have left or will leave the plant by the end of the year as part of a massive restructuring by the bankrupt auto supplier. That leaves the plant with a staff of mostly temporary employees and an uncertain future. Nearly 700 Columbus workers accepted retirement, buyouts or jobs with General Motors Corp., Howard French, chairman of United Auto Workers Local 969, said yesterday. ... [email protected] http://www.dispatch.com/business-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/09/27/20060927-D1-00.html From the 9/27/06 DDN: Bill would give tax help to ex-workers at Delphi, GM By John Nolan Staff Writer Wednesday, September 27, 2006 A legislative proposal offered Tuesday in Columbus would authorize a tax credit for former employees of General Motors and Delphi for expenses for education, training or starting businesses. The proposal introduced by Rep. Randy Law, R-Warren, would apply to expenses for taxable years beginning in or after 2006 and ending before June 1, 2009. Warren is home to a plant operated by Delphi, the auto parts maker spun off by GM as an independent company in 1999. Law's proposal hasn't been assigned to a legislative committee. It is unlikely to receive a hearing until after the Nov. 7 election, said Karen Tabor, spokeswoman for Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted, R-Kettering. ... http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2006/09/26/ddn092706delphibiz.html
September 28, 200618 yr ^ Now lets just hope that these people are smart with their money. Unless they were already really close to retiring, it really wasn't a whole lot of money. Those who were not close to retiring will have a hard time finding work that pays even nearly as well. Then again, if you see the writing on the wall I guess I would be best to get a buyout check rather than an unemployment check. Also, do retirees continue to pay union dues or do you only pay while you are working?
September 30, 200618 yr Author Also, do retirees continue to pay union dues or do you only pay while you are working? I would like to know the answer to that too, if somebody out there knows. From the 9/28/06 Business Journal: Delphi Packard Seeks IUE 717's OK to Hire 1,700 ‘Permanent Temporaries’ Sept. 28, 2006 4:20 p.m. By Andrea Wood WARREN, Ohio – Delphi Corp. wants to hire 1,700 “permanent temporary” employees at its five plants in the Mahoning Valley and pay them $10 an hour with no benefits -- a proposal the chief negotiator for IUE Local 717 says he flatly rejects. Donald O. Arbogast, shop chairman, says August Lukasko, personnel manager for the Ohio Operations division of Delphi Packard Electric, delivered the low-wage proposal to his office Aug. 31. “When he gave me that, I said I’m not interested,” Arbogast told The Business Journal. ... Roberta C. Yafie contributed to this story. http://www.business-journal.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=5766&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1711&hn=business-journal&he=.com
September 30, 200618 yr Author From the 9/29/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Delphi Packard status at risk By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle WARREN –– Labor talks between Delphi Corp. and its second largest union appear to have entered a ‘‘dangerous’’ phase, an auto analyst said Thursday as the future of Warren-based Delphi Packard Electric suddenly came into question. ‘‘It’s very dangerous when you’re dealing with this kind of situation. It’s not like the company is solid,’’ David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., said of continued differences between International Union of Electrical Workers-Communications Workers of America Local 717 and Delphi. The differences came into sharp focus at a status conference before Manhattan bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain when Delphi attorney John W. ‘‘Jack’’ Butler Jr., indicated the auto parts maker may move Delphi Packard from a core facility to non-core — making it vulnerable to being sold or closed — if no labor agreement can be reached with Local 717, according to a labor lawyer. ... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=9348
September 30, 200618 yr Author From the AP, 9/30/06: Delphi Corp. reports loss of $533M in August, cites buyouts By Associated Press Saturday, September 30, 2006 TROY, Mich. — — Auto supplier Delphi Corp. lost $533 million in August, mostly as a result of buyouts, the company said in its latest operating report filed Friday in bankruptcy court. For the first eight months of the year, the loss totaled $3.7 billion, Delphi said. The Troy-based company said it took charges of $372 million last month to pay for buyouts and early retirements. Delphi said this week that 20,100 workers, or more than 70 percent, have agreed to take the incentives to leave by Jan. 1. ... http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/business/2006/09/29/ddn093006delphi.html From the 9/30/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Union denies stonewalling talks By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle WARREN — Union contract bargainer Don Arbogast fired back Friday to dispel any impression that he’s stonewalling contract talks at bankrupt Delphi Corp.’s Warren operations. The shop chairman of International Union of Electrical Workers-Communications Workers of America Local 717 said that since Delphi Packard Personnel Manager August Lukasko laid the division’s ‘‘site rationalization plan’’ on his desk at 4 p.m. Aug. 30, he’s heard nothing from management about negotiating. ... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=9369
October 4, 200618 yr Article published October 4, 2006 Maumee seeks way to keep Ford plant Maumee is going to take a proactive approach toward the looming Ford Stamping Plant closure, city Administrator John Jezak said. Mr. Jezak wrote a letter to Mayor Tim Wagener and members of City Council to inform them of a government review of the city's operations and finances in light of Ford's Sept. 15 announcement. A purpose of the review is to evaluate ways to persuade Ford to keep its Maumee plant open, he said. The letter said a report will be made to council Dec. 4, including an analysis of the effect other economic development matters will have on Maumee... http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061004/NEWS18/610040358/-1/NEWS
October 9, 200618 yr Author From the 10/5/06 Youngstown Vindicator: GM proposes hiring 115 temps locally GM is considering bringing workers from other plants to Lordstown. By DON SHILLING VINDICATOR BUSINESS EDITOR LORDSTOWN — General Motors Corp. has proposed hiring 115 temporary workers at its Lordstown complex as it examines whether to add permanent workers. The temporary workers would be on the job until the end of the year to replace workers who have taken retirement and buyout incentives and to fill in for workers who are being trained on new jobs. Typically, temporary workers are used only in the summers as vacation fill-ins. GM's request must be approved by the Detroit office of the United Auto Workers. A decision is expected within a week, said Jim Graham, president of UAW Local 1112 in Lordstown. Dan Flores, a GM spokesman, said officials are examining staffing needs, so it's too early to say whether permanent workers will be added after the temporary workers are done. Jan. 1 is the final day for workers to leave under the incentive packages. ... [email protected] http://www.vindy.com/content/local_regional/287190392739756.php
October 10, 200618 yr Author From the 10/8/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Area leaders debate the cause of Delphi’s slide By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle Storm clouds had been gathering for months, even years: slumping orders from its largest customer; retirement of its founding chief executive; plunging stock price; hiring a CEO with a history of taking companies into bankruptcy. Still, few workers at Warren’s Delphi Packard Electric fully expected their parent, Delphi Corp., to seek bankruptcy court protection. It was the king of auto parts suppliers, with sales of $28.6 billion and 180,000 workers around the world. It sprang from the most regal of automotive royalty — mighty General Motors Corp., the world’s largest automaker and Delphi’s steadiest customer. ‘‘I thought there was no way a big company like this could go bankrupt. I’d hoped it would be the last job I’d have,’’ Austintown resident Tad Pocatko said of the company that for decades had provided a stable paycheck for generations of local workers. ... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=9707
October 10, 200618 yr Author From the 10/6/06 Toledo Blade: Maumee Ford-plant workers briefed on options for closing By JON CHAVEZ BLADE STAFF WRITER Workers from Ford Motor Co.'s Maumee Stamping Plant, scheduled to close in 2008, were briefed yesterday on their departure options in meetings with United Auto Workers officials. But for most of the 630 hourly workers, the options were just variations on a theme - financial buyouts. Several said the possibility of transferring to another stamping plant within Ford was mentioned, but unlikely given that the automaker is eliminating 44,000 jobs within two years and closing 16 factories by 2012... Contact Jon Chavez at: [email protected] or 419-7824-6128. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061006/BUSINESS02/610060375/-1/BUSINESS
October 10, 200618 yr Author From the AP, 10/10/06: Ford to begin buyout offer next week Associated Press Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:21 AM DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. will begin offering its previously-disclosed buyout or early retirement packages to all 75,000 of its U.S. hourly employees starting next week. Employees represented by the United Auto Workers will have from next Monday until Nov. 27 to either choose one of eight buyout programs or stay on with the financially struggling automaker. The programs, announced last month, include lump-sum payments of up to $140,000 and tuition reimbursement in addition to more traditional early retirement packages... http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=218522
October 15, 200618 yr Author From the 10/10/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Delphi touts area division’s expertise By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle Delphi Packard Electric’s future has yet to be decided, but its parent company is touting the Warren-based division’s expertise and products ahead of an industry show in Detroit. Delphi Corp., which is reorganizing in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, issued a news release Monday that touts Delphi Packard’s skills in electrical/electronic design and production of wiring harnesses and other parts. Troy, Mich.-based Delphi Corp. said Delphi engineers use ‘‘proprietary design tools and software to create a virtual model of the (electrical/electronic) architecture — down to the last connector, electrical center, electronic module, wiring harness and serial data network.’’ ... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=9775
October 15, 200618 yr Author From the 10/11/06 Toledo Blade: PHOTO: David Culps, left, of Canton, Mich., and Barry Butts, of Hudson, Mich., work on lower case assembly at Powertrain facility. ( THE BLADE/LORI KING ) PHOTO: Toledoan Gary Ely puts on driver extensions for test stands. Local GM plant blooms in October General Motors part of Toledo 90 years By JULIE M. McKINNON BLADE BUSINESS WRITER October is a significant month for General Motors Corp. and Toledo. Ninety years ago this month, the 8-year-old automaker bought one of its parts suppliers on Central Avenue, establishing GM's first manufacturing foray in Toledo. Fifty years ago, GM essentially replaced that factory with a revamped Alexis Road plant, building its first transmission there on Oct. 16, 1956. And this month GM started erecting steel for the factory's latest expansion, with production scheduled to begin in October, 2008. Though that $500 million project calls for eliminating another task GM originally did on Alexis Road, die-casting transmission parts, officials say it will help set the plant up for decades to come. ... http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061011/BUSINESS02/610110337/-1/BUSINESS From the 10/11/06 Youngstown Vindicator: Work to keep Delphi here, Heltzel suggests Treat Delphi as if it were just thinking about locating here, the commissioner said. By ED RUNYAN VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioner Paul Heltzel says recent news that Delphi Corp. might shut its local plants could be "positioning" by the company, but the community should take the threat seriously. The company has said negotiations here must go favorably or Delphi Packard Electric could move from a core operation that keeps operations here after the parent company emerges from bankruptcy to a noncore operation, which could mean a shutdown. "It's time to say what's good for the area," Heltzel said, speaking at a Trumbull County Planning Commission meeting Tuesday. ... http://www.vindy.com/content/local_regional/325302590838797.php From the 10/11/06 (WSU) Guardian: Student workers speak on Delphi Tina Pandza Issue date: 10/11/06 Section: News Delphi Corp., the world's second-largest parts manufacturer and the biggest supplier to General Motors Corp, shocked the American auto industry in August of last year when it filed for bankruptcy and laid plans to dramatically downsize its U.S. operations. In a proposal to lower labor costs and lay ground to exit from bankruptcy by the middle of 2007, Delphi has been cutting its work force rapidly. Delphi employs about 13,000 workers in Ohio in the Dayton, Warren, Columbus and Sandusky areas. It has offered buyouts and early-retirement incentives that have persuaded 20,100, more than two-thirds of its hourly employees, to leave the company by the end of the year. ... http://www.theguardianonline.com/media/storage/paper373/news/2006/10/11/News/Student.Workers.Speak.On.Delphi-2342211.shtml?norewrite200610142029&sourcedomain=www.theguardianonline.com
October 15, 200618 yr Author From the 10/12/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Reports: Delphi, GM deal near close By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle A top negotiator for workers at Delphi Packard Electric said Wednesday he hasn’t heard if Delphi Corp. and General Motors Corp. are close to a deal because he’s focusing on getting the best terms for his members. ‘‘Right now our biggest thing is getting temporary (worker) language done. We’re trying to save our three locations,’’ said Willie Thorpe, chairman of the International Union of Electrical Workers-Communications Workers of America Automotive Conference Board. The IUE-CWA represents Local 717 members at Delphi Packard, where as 3,130 workers have taken lump-sum payments to retire or quit. ... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=9832
October 15, 200618 yr Author From the 10/14/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Delphi keeps ‘core’ status By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle WARREN — Delphi Packard Electric management re-affirmed the company’s intention to continue operating five local ‘‘core’’ plants when Delphi Corp. leaves bankruptcy, the lead union negotiator said Friday. In addition, union members who are still working will be able to stay on the job through the end of the year before they retire or quit under the company’s attrition plan conducted this summer, International Union of Electrical Workers-Communications Workers of America Local 717 Shop Chairman Don Arbogast said. In a new development, workers who wish to stay after Jan. 1 as temporary workers at $10 an hour with no benefits will be able to do so, he said. ... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=9913 From the 10/14/06 Detroit Free Press: New beginning at Delphi comes with high price tag Company loses billions. UAW bleeds members By Jason Roberson Detroit Free Press DETROIT - A year ago this week, Delphi Corp. became the nation's largest manufacturer to file for bankruptcy. Since then, the company and its work force have changed forever. Delphi said it filed for bankruptcy because it was losing money, needed to shut down uncompetitive businesses and could no longer afford to pay the full wages of its unionized workers. Progress has been made on all of those fronts -- but at a price. ... http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/business/15758736.htm?source=rss&channel=ohio_business DELPHI'S GOALS Delphi says it has focused on five key areas during its bankruptcy: • Modifying labor agreements to be competitive with other suppliers. • Concluding negotiations with General Motors to finalize financial support for labor costs and to clarify GM's business commitment to Delphi. • Streamlining its product portfolio to capitalize on technology. • Transforming the salaried work force to ensure its cost structure is competitive and fits the product portfolio. • Devising a solution to its pension situation, whether it is to stretch out pension payments or to develop an alternative solution. SOURCE: Detroit Free Press http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/business/15758731.htm?source=rss&channel=ohio_business
October 24, 200618 yr Ford workers get $100,000 to leave It's among menu of options offered BY BARRETT J. BRUNSMAN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER BATAVIA - Take this job and ... shove $100,000 into your retirement account. Or invest in a new career, perhaps by buying a franchise to start your own business. For the past week, the 1,222 hourly workers at Ford's Batavia Transmission Plant - and about 200 others who have been laid off - have been eligible for parting presents if they quit jobs with Clermont County's largest employer... http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061024/BIZ01/610240329/1002/COL02
October 24, 200618 yr Author From the 10/15/06 Warren Tribune Chronicle: Delphi woes point to need to adapt By LARRY RINGLER Tribune Chronicle WARREN — Neatly dressed in a light blue-striped shirt and slacks, Girard resident Vince Carkido went hunting for work at a job fair in September. What the 12-year Delphi Packard Electric manufacturing veteran, and many of his co-workers also at the fair, discovered is making ends meet on what’s being offered will be difficult. One small fabrication shop, he said, offered $5.50 an hour, a far cry from the $25 an hour he was making at Delphi Packard before he took a buyout as Delphi Corp. tries to cut its work force in order to emerge from bankruptcy. ... [email protected] http://tribune-chronicle.com/articles.asp?articleID=9973
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