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TBF

(31,922 posts)
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 11:10 PM Feb 2015

Ford Raises Pay for 500 Workers

Ford Raises Pay for 500 Workers as Demand Grows for F-150 Pickup
By BILL VLASICFEB. 4, 2015


DETROIT — Growing demand for Ford Motor’s new pickup truck will prompt a transition to higher wages for up to 500 of the company’s entry-level union workers.

On Wednesday, Ford said that it would add 1,550 new jobs at four plants in the United States to increase production of the latest version of its top-selling F-series pickup.

By adding the jobs, Ford said, it will exceed its nationwide cap on entry-level workers, who earn about $19 an hour. And as a result, 300 to 500 of the company’s entry-level employees will transition to the $28-an-hour wage earned by longtime factory workers.

The transition is the first time that any entry-level workers at the three domestic carmakers have moved up to the higher wage scale since the companies agreed to a two-tier system in their 2007 contract with the United Automobile Workers union ...

More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/business/demand-for-ford-truck-means-higher-wages-for-500-workers.html?hpw&rref=business&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

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Ford Raises Pay for 500 Workers (Original Post) TBF Feb 2015 OP
Great news! marym625 Feb 2015 #1
I hadn't found much to be thrilled with lately - TBF Feb 2015 #2
Very good! marym625 Feb 2015 #3
Well, it's only because they're contractually obligated to. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2015 #4
Absolutely - TBF Feb 2015 #5

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
4. Well, it's only because they're contractually obligated to.
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 04:24 PM
Feb 2015

It's not like they're doing this out of some general goodwill toward man.

TBF

(31,922 posts)
5. Absolutely -
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 04:52 PM
Feb 2015

It is so important that we fight to keep (and expand membership) in the unions we still have.

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