Ford Assembly plant workers layed off; Ford Assembly Line Escorts, UAW Contract, Union President #1 of 2

OK let me start by asking you I know you don't know too many details of the contractors when you read the paper on the phone. What was your first reaction when you heard there was a settlement in the Senate My first reaction when I heard from my superiors and our leaders and national goshi haters in Detroit is I'm well please from what I hear and we hear the fine points when the guy I know will be satisfied because the whole contract is for the benefit of all our people who are laid off. And believe me I'm overjoyed with that because we have a lot of our members of our go lose their guaranteed wage for 10 years. Down which we had them in the majority of our people laid off right now I'd say 60 percent have under 10 years and they're losing everything and we understand that they'll be compensated to be able to get all their sub credits which is a joy which will help them for a year and the benefit of the people that from plant closings that from Ma why they're here until they can get hired back into our plan

to recall they'll get a guaranteed wage. How much we don't know yet I understand it's decent but it will keep him enough that you know until we get our jobs back. And believe me if this is so I'm overjoyed by it. There was some fear up to this point that this plan here was in trouble of closing itself. How would that be taken care of under the new country. From what I hear there's a two year moratorium on all plant closings which I got to be honest our plant was probably on the list maybe to be close I couldn't definitely say. But right now that reassures us that we have our jobs for two more years and believe me and hopefully that in two years time that car will sell better because of our negotiations and our people be our second shift will be called back bitch. But I'm very optimistic at this point on. Was it worth giving up some of the things the union had to give up. Do you think the paid holidays. Yes there are freeze on raises that sometimes you know I spoke on record

before to some newspapers that I was in for a given wages and they did not give our wages up they froze our wages up until this coming December which I'm very happy we didn't want to get to the point like Chrysler did where we'd lose our wages and take it to a three dollar an hour cut take home pay. I was totally against that and that when we met before in Detroit we told our national negotiators this and they came through and it didn't happen. So we're very happy with that. As far as our holidays that we give up understand it's a loan of holidays. 8 p ph days a year and one personal bonus holiday for christmas. I think our membership will gladly give this up to keep that job security and that we're happier. So you know you say it's worth giving things up. Absolutely. Keep your job as long as we can take from our wages and when I understand there's a real winner in this.

When Ford starts to make a profit. Sure they're going to go into profit sharing and share profit with us at any time when the profits go up so. When we hear the fine points I'm sure we'll be happy over again without having seen the Five Points you think the concessions that Ford made you know they made a lot of concessions. Absolutely I believe that Ford knows now that the foreign market was taking us over and before long we could probably last eight or 10 plants in a given year and it wouldn't help anyway. Anybody. So we're very happy here and I think our national negotiators did a damn good job. Two more questions. From all the calls that you've got you've gotten since yesterday when the contract tentative was announced. Have you gotten some impression from your members what their feelings are they tell you. Well our members right now are in the ass thing. They're asking questions in this stage and I told them when I come back Friday will get my news letter telling America thing and they're pretty excited about it but they don't know is I don't know exactly the

fine points but everybody seems very optimistic. And you just tell me what happens now this Tenet is going to reach what's the next step up to ratification. Well the next step is ratification once we have the tentative agreement and we accept this Wednesday. If we accept it Wednesday d'Amour have are probably on the 20th of February membership meeting and in the meantime we'll get our membership all the details so they'll know how to vote. OK everybody hey can. I tell you guys I don't have a job. Well what's wrong with her again. Here you are. I never heard. One word.

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