Milan Chick

Gee!! I can hardly wait. Hopefully they will save me a spot there!!

If anyone has any connections to find out what the bottom seniority is that gets these job bid, please post. MAP, MAP BSU, Woodhaven Stamping, Woodhaven Forge. The anticipation is killing us.

I have a few questions about MAP. Hopefully someone can answer. 1. Is it a 4 day operation? What are the shift hours? 2. Can you have radios or IPODs there? 3. Do you have to schedule your vacation/personal days? Or can you call them in.

Does anyone know many light blue's are at the Sheldon Road plant currently?

When are these people supposed to be leaving to go back to Rawsonville?

Are there any Wayne (MAP, truck or whatever) workers that got shipped to Dearborn?

Are there Wayne workers at Dearborn right now?? If so, anyone know how many? I am assumming if there are, then those people would be returning to Wayne when Wayne opens up again.

I wonder how many people were in JSP then. Was it the same amount of people who went to Saline? If it's relatively close, that would make more sense to me.

So your saying, they are not going to replace the people that left?

Yeah, it just doesn't make sense to me at all. I couldn't understand why they would want to keep moving people around unnecessarily. I mean, why would I flowback now? It would only be replacing the new Saline people. Just to be kicked out when they return by someone with less seniority.....possibly. They told us at Milan if we leave, we aren't coming back pretty much. I just have a hard time believing that they are holding everyone's job at all the Ford plants for the new Saline plant workers. Something seems fishy to me.....

So, then what happens to me if I am at DTP replacing the person who went to Saline? (this is all hypothetical by the way, I am not leaving Milan unless I see something great come up or they boot me out) I am just curious to know how all this works. I am glad Saline is a breath of fresh air for many of you who have went. I am even happier to hear that the people have been welcoming and friendly. This whole process of transferring and closing plants has been so stressful on everyone. It's no fun to walk into a place with shitty jobs and shitty people to go along with it. I am glad I didn't transfer to Saline though and I will tell you why. Being at Milan, I feel is no different than being at Saline. Both are great places to work. So for me to leave a good job for another good job (Both not technically FORD plants either) doesn't make sense to me. I had the seniority to go, however, I just would of shot someone else's chance to get out of a shitty job and into a great plant. Though I can't help to wonder what someone is thinking, who has worked in the assembly plants the whole time and just transferring to Saline......what do they think? I am also happy for these people who will get a taste of the "good life" for a change. LOL!

I am hoping one of you can explain this to me. Because I certainly don't understand it. They opened up these Saline jobs for the Ford workers. So many workers from Dearborn, AAI....whatever are transferring to Saline....for a year and 1/2 or so. So with all the people who left Dearborn, etc. they will have to replace their jobs. So I am assuming I will see jobs opening up at these plants and will be able to bid on them (I am at Milan obviously). So lets say I get to to to DTP. I work there until they let go of the Saline plant Ford people. Now, what happens to me? Would I stay at DTP? or would I be kicked out by possibly a lower seniority person? Don't they lose their seniority also by transferring to Saline? I just don't understand how that would work and I don't understand why they would want to keep moving people around all the time.

He really did care about his people. He wasn't in that position to make easy money. Even with everything going on.....flowbacks, transfers, buyouts, sales....etc. Steve seemed to put us at ease for the most part. Everyone knew that Steve was doing everything he could to protect all of the people at Milan. Whether they had 30 years or 30 minutes in the plant. In my opinion, probably led him to an early death. I am just totally sick over it. I am sure there are many still at Milan that don't even know and are going to be shocked to find out the bad news when they return to work Monday. I can't even imagine what work will be like Monday......he was loved by everyone. Yes, he was a big U of M fan. I guess he used to go to these games with his son every year. UGH. I am just so saddened.

The whole milan plant is deeply saddened by this sudden tragic news. Steve Stamper was an amazing Plant Chairman. He always protected his people and did whatever he could for them. He fought his ass off for us. He was a very nice man with a kind heart. He was very young as well. I honestly don't know what is going to happen to our plant without him. Please pray for his family and our plant.

Right now, Flex N Gate is not hiring anyone. Neither is Ford, Visteon or ACH....whatever you call us. We have to exhaust all of our people first before hiring off the street. Meaning, we have took some Monroe people and Ypsilanti people (who aren't Ford) and brought them to ACH. Also we have packages here that allow us to take a buyout and work for Flex N Gate and give up our rights to anything Ford. Unless you retire, then you can get your pension and work for Flex N Gate. So with all this, I think we are a ways away from doing any hiring of any sort. Unless they can place a bunch of us Ford people into Ford plants. But that doesn't look like anytime soon either with everyone else getting laid off, plants closing and being put in the JSP. But IF they hired anyone right now, it would be under ACH since Flex N Gate still hasn't officially taken over the plant yet. If someone got hired, they would have ACH wages until Flex N Gate took over and it would go to Flex N Gate pay scale and rules whenever Flex N Gate takes over. I hope that helps.