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pmooret

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  1. Today’s Democratic and Republican parties are not the same old parties they use to be. The Democrats are now a Socialist party. In days of old they really promoted the unions, things were good and a lot of folks (us) got good paying jobs. After we (us) have worked our butts off for years they now want to redistribute our tax monies, take away our private health insurance and put everybody (and I mean everybody) on government run insurance. Now don’t forget that countries that didn’t fare so well during covid had government run hospitals. They also have a hard on right now for mail in ballots. I’m sure you can figure that one out. Although the Republicans are against unions they don’t seem to be as bad since Trump has been in and I look at what the alternative is to voting Republican so I vote Republican. If JFK were alive today I don’t believe he would be a Democrat. So don’t feel bad about identifying with the Republican Party because it’s no longer the party your parents warned you about when you were growing up. Oh, I forgot to mention about the Democrats being the PC police. So now if you fuck up and say hell, damn, or shit instead of being brought up front to the hot seat you get fired.
  2. These folks who can’t even come up with a uniform procedure to report deaths (like don’t count the same person twice), provide correct data projections, and can’t make up their mind about simple things like “to wear or not to wear a mask, what will it be” want us to give up our private health insurance and let them be in charge of our health care.
  3. We’ve had 321 unfortunate deaths in KY and our numbers are rapidly falling. The local paint store who is a national chain has been open this entire time with curbside pickup. I called them with my order then again when I was in the parking lot to give my card info. They bring it out and put it in your trunk or truck bed, no contact. Folks can figure out how to run their businesses in an adaptive environment. This is what the KY team player sees and wonders what all the hoopla is. He has long been a fiscal conservative and I can’t wait to see what he says about the new stimulus package. He constantly questions why we give money to countries who don’t like us. He’s a no nonsense guy, wish there were more like him to stop this spending. Pelosi's new package will cost each taxpayer $10,000 in taxes to pay it off. Don’t forget he is a doctor too so he can go toe to toe with the “experts” and their charts/data/suppositions which appear to be based on the SWAG (silly wild ass guess!) method.
  4. Finally got bonus money today.
  5. Retired from LAP on March 1st and still don’t have a check.
  6. Ahh Decker, When I was just out of high school, many moons ago, I had the privilege to see Hal Holbrook perform his one man show depicting Mark Twain. It was great. About five years ago I met with a few cousins from across the states to do some research on our family history/genealogy, in Hannibal, Missouri. Found out that Hal Holbrook was there the week before with his Mark Twain show so I just missed it. He has since retired that tour.
  7. https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/964593/33
  8. Democrats know that Trump can win re-election on his economic successes alone. The hype about this supposed pandemic and resulting shutdown is all designed to tank our economy to keep Trump from winning again. The only person I can think of who could pull this off is George Soros yet I haven’t seen or heard of anything to that effect, yet. This shut down kills two birds with one stone. It also begins the process of the “sheepie” accepting being told what to do and slowly giving up their civil liberties. This whole thing reminds me of a false flag event. How’s that for another conspiracy theory!! Take it for what its worth.
  9. Retired from LAP on March 1st still don’t have a buyout check.
  10. In one of the handouts it stated that you would get your bonus 4-6 weeks after you retire. I went out on March1 and this is week 6 but no deposit yet.
  11. LIB is reduced again if you have a spouse for the widows benefit. Also, don’t they take out a monthly copay for your VEBA? How much is the VEBA copay?
  12. Wait till you have to deal with the new NESC site. On hold for 2-4 hours. Then the rep has to check on everything, you'll lose it. But they aren't from India. Can't wait to see what happens with this company when all the folks start retiring on this buyout deal.
  13. Ididntdoit, I believe you are one of the few who can see into the future. I wish the 401k had been offered to us instead of the company pension. My retirement in the past 12 or so years has relied solely on the generosity (lol) of the company for any increase since we don't benefit from the upswings of the stock market. Thus, I'll be retiring on a pension that peaked 13 yrs ago. Thankfully I started a tesphe shortly after I hired in, but the company pension plan being stagnate all these years has pissed me off. Plus I have to live with the uncertainty of is the pension underfunded or will Ford go broke before I die. Never know whose stealing and whose lying. Fighting for advances for 2nd tier and freezing legacy is how we meet in the middle. Basically, by the time 2nd tier reaches out wage scale, which has been stagnant and not even kept up with inflation, we are both making a lousy wage. This was the company strategy all along. Legacy pay scale is now about five-seven dollars below what it use to be. The ironic part about the uaw fighting for no increases in our health insurance is that they then turn around and vote for a democratic who wants a single payer insurance. Best of luck in the next chapter of your new life. You'll be much happier.
  14. Hey Ididntdoit, I don't have time to look for another union cause I'm out of here on this contract. My list of pluses and minuses are facts, not my opinion or my vote. I stated at the beginning of the post that I wasn't surprised at the no votes and the list is why I think there were so many no votes. However, on my list I do think that no raise for our brothers and sisters who are already retired and losing their Xmas bonus too is unconscionable.
  15. I'm not surprised at the no votes. Legacy employees didn't gain anything, the 2nd tier employees gained the most. The economy is the best it has been in years yet: We lost our x-mas bonus. Retirees lost their x-mas bonus. We lost $10,000 on the buyouts. Went backwards on awols. We still didn't get back any of our break time or regular cola. Still nothing added to our pension LIB for the last 12 + yrs. The $1000 deposit to tesphe is a JOKE, do the math on that one. If you retire with 30 yrs and live 15 yrs after you retire that's an increase of 18 cents per LIB unit, that's $5.40 a month. Social Security raise next year on average is projected to be about $23 a month. Still no raises for past retirees. Camera's on work stations, HELL NO. The only gain I see is that there isn't a pull ahead on your profit sharing this time. I'm sure there are more, these are just off the top of my head late at night.
  16. I made sure my child didn’t work here, instead she works in a corporate setting and loves her job.
  17. There better be a raise to our pension LIB and I want to see it in the highlights plus a raise for current retirees. Otherwise it’s a big no and I’ll try to drum up additional no votes. There are several retirees in our family and family gatherings are unpleasant, the lectures start as soon as I walk through the door.
  18. Copy of letter from the International dated Sept 18th was passed around LAP today. It states "At this time, we have 11 out of 20 subcommittees that have reached a tentative agreement." As usual, the Ford UAW is moving on along. If this contract doesn't have a raise in our LIB or a raise for past retirees it's a big no for me. We haven't had a raise in our retirement LIB for at least 12 years. The 2nd tier folks might scoff at us for this because we have a company funded retirement but we didn't have a choice, there were no other options. Instead of benefiting from the stock market we have a retirement that is entirely dependent upon the company's benevolence and they haven't felt benevolent for way too long now. Imagine if after 18 yrs of working your retirement freezes while you continue to work another 12 yrs.
  19. We can't even get a $64 a month raise on our paycheck much less our retirement. This needs to change.
  20. According to a recent article, Social Security recipients are projected to receive a COLA raise in 2020 of approximately $23.40. Last years raise was $40.90. What was Ford's retirement raise for the same period for either current or future retirees, anybody know? What raises have been given in the last 12-15 years on current or future retirement? Link to article: https://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/social-security-check-increase-2020
  21. After four years here it is again, a company troll at contract time. Just joined in August. Please do not comment or respond to this person. It's just bait. As I said earlier, it's a theatrical production.
  22. Depends on where you get your info. Actual figures seem to be a big corporate secret these days. Years ago when we use to have classes for everything, they had a handout of a pie chart which showed percentages for the various cost associated with building a vehicle. At that time labor was 6-8%, don't remember the exact figure. Before I posted I Googled the question and came up with anywhere from 3-15%. According to the old company pie chart our labor was the smallest percentage of the cost of a vehicle, yet every contract the company starts this big theatrical production using the TV news stations, newspapers, trolls, our own union, etc to campaign against our wages because, as you recall, they're broke. Same old broken record every contract, BECAUSE IT WORKS. I'm glad that at least someone else is aware of the small percentage our wage represents in the cost of a vehicle.
  23. Don't forget, our labor cost only accounts for about 10% of the price of a vehicle. Don't fall for the usual old song and dance ritual, it's a con.
  24. Damn Fuzzy, I'm an old fart. I had to look up TBH!! Didn't have the grandson here to explain things to Maw Maw.
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