It certainly won't help but to be fair, I think a lot of the Bronco's issues come from poor engineering. All the pride in the world won't solve bad design on the assembly line.
UAW leadership will be judged on getting the 32hour work accepted. They will not budge on this until a majority of the membership balks on this demand. That will take a lot of economic pain on both parties before we see a resolution. None of the companies can survive, be competitive with other manufacturers with a 32 hour work week base pay. Time will tell, but if they strike it will be a long strike.
I haven't ran the financial impact of this detail through my giant modeling/predictive spreadsheet (that you know the Big 3 actually have and continually use). But given that the UAW also want an immediate 20% pay bump and 32 vs. 40 is also 20%, I strongly suspect they could easily survive this change.
Nice to have a crystal ball
It is good to see they have dropped the 32 hour work week . The Leadership is being raked over the coals already. The strategic isolated plant strike was floated around a few weeks back. It would give the UAW the ability to strike longer , or provide supplemental pay longer. But this socialist article didn’t appreciate that aspect of the plan. The next few weeks will be interesting.
I think the opposite, again cut off engines and trannies and no vehicles will get built. I'm sure those major components are pretty much JIT type production.
All engines and transmissions have already been procured for anyone Scheduled. As long as the assembly continues to run, the scheduled builds will be completed for MY23. Now MY24 is another story, but no order for MY24 has been scheduled yet.
Thanks for the discussion.
My experience at large auto OEM plants is limited to building them. However, we all have access to great resources right here at Bronco6G (https://www.bronco6g.com/forum/thre...retail-unscheduled-orders-9-5-23.80893/unread) . This article indicates that not only all drive trains are already secured for scheduled orders, but all motors and automatic transmissions are available for the 10,171 unscheduled orders. How efficient Ford is would be a judgment call based on expectations. For me, I placed an order on 5-15-23, and picked up my Bronco on 9-1-23. I didn’t expect it that quick, so in my view they are very efficient. I know that others have had different experiences, and they would view Ford as inefficient.
That sounds pretty cool!
I see no references in that link as to component/subsystem build status nor availability. I'd be surprised if Ford shared data of that fidelity. Wrong link? Am I missing something? All I see is the retail USOB report that is shared almost weekly.
Interesting article. It appears that UAW leadership has not dropped the 32 hour work week, or if it has this article failed to report it. The wage increase is one of 8 issues. The offered increase is to frame the Manufactures in a good light with their share holders, they know the UAW is more concerned with the other issues. The entire point was to say “ look we are trying to avoid a strike, Fain would not even come back with a counter”. Tiers, Cola, Temps, ect …anre the issues that are going to be played out in the months to come . Bernie Sanders vs Ford and GM. Stalantis will just have to conform to what these two agree to. Poor working man vs Billionaires. Typical class envy diatribe that has little to do with obtaining a contract.
. Still scheduled for production but not in production - in it for the long haul. Best of luck to everyone.
