This is the right time now that BEVs are the future. There are UAW organizing efforts at Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid right now. We all agree that management is blunting our chances to survive the BEV revolution by their perpetually inept ways.
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I don’t know what the solution is. Although for what ails Ford I don’t think unionizing the white collars is the solution. They have practiced “whipping the fastest horses” and fattening up the slowest horses for too long. As a result the fastest horses have either bolted or come up lame. Unionizing now would just force Ford to continue to pay “fastest horses” salaries to the horses that should be shipped off to petting zoos or the glue factory long ago. Sadly that is 50% of the salaried workforce. Yes, management and HR is at fault for setting up a system that rewards and coddles the non-producers. Yes, management itself is 50% coddled and entitled. Again, I don’t know what the solution is. Perhaps outsourcing? For example infrastructure-as-a-service and relying more on supplier engineering. It’s a puzzler for sure. BGC has made a real hash of things. I am sure they had best of intentions, but lacked data and information, or it could be the LL3s bolluxed the implementation.
@OP. I'll take my chances with no union. Unions just make companies worse.
Go away!
@ahn+1hwBqic3 Holding management accountable is a good goal but it's out of our hands. A union would at least protect the working level from the whims of the latest CEO.
Look into all the problems Ford has with laying people off in Europe. It can still be done but it takes negotiations and people know it's coming well in advance.
Maybe it can stop this:
Ford Authority: Ford Engineering Efforts Expand In Mexico Amid Latin American Pivot.
https://fordauthority.com/2022/06/ford-engineering-efforts-expand-in-mexico-amid-latin-american-pivot/
So anon, explain to me how a union fixes management ineptness? Ford has operated with an hourly union for the last 80 years… a union will just create another organization of ineptness. The key is we need to become a results oriented company again. Do mistakes happen? Yes. However, when there are consecutive quarters of mistakes that’s when it is time to hold leadership accountable. Only the Ford family and the board of directors have (as voted by the shareholders) have this right. Not quite sure what either has been up to these days…