Just reading the news here,
says the mexican president Calderon came to Chihuahua to inaugurate the new Ford Engine plant, Jim Farley says they will be investing 3,000 million dls, and it should be able to produce 200,000 engines a year.
the 6.7 and the 4.4 it says n the newspaper, it also says 100% of all of them are gonna be exported...

on a personal note... i wonder if mexico is gonna stay without a diesel in the fords like they have all the time till 2006 iirc

This is gonna give lots of employment for us Mexicans, but if the new diesel is another fail, its gonna be cuz its made in Mex lol

 

Great, more labor outsourced to Mexico. Hmm...wonder why our economy is going down the drain??

 

I blame college. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians here.

If its outsourced, Mexicos a good place, the work isn't too much for us here, and the quality is better than other places (by a long shot!)

 

Whatever keeps Ford from going chapter 11 in the long run. Unless you all like paying to keep chevy and dodge's doors open. This is nothing new, least the profits are for an american company. Toyota uses quality american labor which is great, but the rest of the money ends up somewhere else.

If anything blame the unions. Paying someone $25 an hour to tighten bolts on an assembly line is what killed american manufacturing.

 

Well, I hope it is a home run for Ford. They need one right now.

 

It wasn't the $25 per hour. It was all the other stuff in thier contracts. 30 years & out retirement, Lifetime health inshurance, Jobs Bank, just to name a few.

 

It wasn't the $25 per hour. It was all the other stuff in thier contracts. 30 years & out retirement, Lifetime health inshurance, Jobs Bank, just to name a few. X2 on the hopeing it works for Ford though.

 

Is there something wrong with retiring after 30 years with a company with pension and med. insurance? I did it after 20 years, thanks to the good ol' US Navy.

 

Well ofcourse!

 

Cheap labor, is the only reason.

 

let's not start a union bashfest, most people who coment on the unions know very little about them!
thank the unions for the 40 hour work week and your lunch and coffee breaks
among other things- nothing wrong with keeping ones pay in check with inflation either

 

The problem with unions is not the pay, it is senority. If you are going to ask for top pay, turn out top work. Too many with experience have the "I've done my time" attitude and fall between apathy and entitlements. Don't get me wrong, unions have their place and can be a family provider, if...the "old hands" take leadership and expect the best.

 

What have unions done for us...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=184NTV2CE_c Maybe in the end it will all turn full circle,when all the manufacturing jobs are gone to Mexico or overseas and we are all working at Wally World,who's going to be able to afford to buy all that stuff?? Don't forget about investors demanding higher returns from these companies all the time ,which forces the companys to cut deaper and deaper until they either have to close or move to another country to try to survive.

 

40hr work week? I haven't ever had a 40hr work week since I quit my gov't job, I can expect 80, thanks to studies showing that 120 hr weeks was unsafe.

Salaried positions suck

 

the only reason ford didnt need a hand out is because they morgated a bunch of stuff a few years ago and thats what helped them thru