EXEC’s in Mexico Selling Their Souls to Move These FNA Jobs

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Yesterday / Today several CHIEFs, Jim Baumbick, several other EXEC management staffers, VEV, Operations Management and the CAL manager are in MEX visiting the new Global Technology and Business Center (GTBC) for Town Halls, business / PD-operation reviews and Partnership Meetings. Lots of horsepower in this dog and pony show, there not showing off the new carpeting since the opening six months ago. The follow-up layoffs, movement, employee leveling is coming, just like with Jim Hacket. The so called filling of voids just created due to the restructuring will be here soon.

A few months back the lady running GTBC showed everyone their capabilities, facilities and manpower in a Webex meeting. The meeting ended with her requesting FNA to send them all the work they have all this extra capacity and manpower. Operations management will take of all that.

Don’t think for a minute these jobs are safe in FNA, they are moving. The lab/CAL work will be in Mexico and computer/CAE/software will be in Chennai. GTBS is EVV / SIL / HIL capable and / or getting to it fast.

My guess is the ICE moves to MEX initially, followed by EVV vehicles. If you are lucky, you will be able to land a program management job to work between all the regions until the pendulum swings and they are at full capability. Your salary in FNA is too damn much and cuts into executive management's bonus, you know they get paid on stock performance, engineering costs per employee and not to forget the new MBA word of the week: EBITA.

Most executive management folks say they have this week as vacation, don’t be fooled. If you must, do some digging if you need proof for yourself. (Wednesday was the GTBS event startup, all week long and runs 1st week in July)

Didn’t your town hall / ford blue get canceled the other day until late July? Your newly hired counterparts in the low-cost-country have taken your jobs and are now having big ribbon cutting ceremonies, lunch and cake extravaganzas ! Fat and happy down south of the border while our colleagues suffer with losing their jobs. Greed drove all this, now $10M, $20M isn’t sufficient anymore, they want it all. Just look at their newly implemented business practices, come into AEC touting this “is now 24x7, this is how we do it at Tesla”.

Look at our competitors, during the very hard times of 2007 Toyota did not lay off anyone. They retooled their assembly lines, retrained and made quality improvements. That is everyone, not some, but all. Despite any negative talk anyone has heard about that company since they are our competitor, they not only talk about treating their employees like family – they proved it ! Our coworkers have their lives, families and futures turned upside down so a few folks at the top can take all the money for their own fat-&-happy families, without any sharing amongst the employees in terms of job security / career longevity.

Once upon a time, the CEO’s and upper management at these large corporations used to mingle with the working level, until the dollar started driving all the decisions. A million or two was sufficient for the boys at the top, but now they pillage the coffers until they’re empty. When the war chest runs out, there needs to be no bailouts !

There was a time just a little bit ago when our president had the backbone to tell these corporate greedy ba----ds that they will get a huge tariff if they move the business, but lots of crying about how mean that was and now look at the situation. Unfortunately, this is pure greed and now cutting into the real friends and family at the working level, nothing was ever real between the owners and workers anyways.

Would be interesting to see if Roush is constructing a building nearby this facility to build and instrument vehicles, this would be a sure telltale sign that it's all moving including the building of TPC / DCV prototypes. (ouch)

Here are the brand new engineering centers, in case you have not seen them. An

https://mexico-now.com/ford-mexicos-new-technology-center-starts-operations/

https://thenewswheel.com/ford-opens-global-technology-and-business-center-in-chennai/

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It simple they need to sale in Mexico
We don't buy Ford anymore
Good luck Ford.

Not sure if Ford gets it but
WE ( Me + 32 households in michigan of my extended family) will not buy new Ford vehicles anyone!
I did send a mass email and provided 5 names they knew and told them jobs where moved to Mexico
Sorry Ford look for a new Market sale where you design.

When BF is done wrecking FNA the only building that will be used is PDC. West Dearborn will be a ghost town. But hey Billy has a 2 billion dollar train station to play with.

Our “friendly” cohorts from south of the border have been visiting and “observing” our testing procedures for the past few years. They now have the same equipment we use and have designed their facilities to mimic ours. When they visit they are all smiles. Now we know why. It’s not a matter of if, but when.

China is getting new engineering and research projects because they have extra manpower available. Also, sourcing in the near future will include American suppliers with operations in China / Korea i.e. Linamar, Magna, Systrand, etc.
India is being rewarded with Advanced Research Engineering projects that were cancelled in Dearborn. Also, more supporting activities are going there Ford Credit, IT support (on top of whatever they already have), more Purchasing depts.
China and India are getting most of the jobs that were lost in NA. Also, they are getting projects from depts closed in Germany and England.

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Testing is already going to Full-Service suppliers, which in turn out source to outside of the U.S.

Engineering is a dead field.

Need a new vehicle? Buy a Toyota, Nissan, Honda... ect..

The majority of white collar couldn't pull themselves together to vote for him, despite their jobs leaving the country.
Most of them are Bernie / FJB fans unfortunately and will die with that in the soon to be hour long bread lines.
The small bag of Dorito's were $4.84 yesterday, like what inflation. Luckily, I have been able to shed a few pound with my gourmet mac & cheese dinners. Hopefully I can afford a slice of cheese with my burger once every few months when I visit Miller's....

If only there was a politician that wanted to make America great again.

Does anyone know if Mexico has any Dyno or testing facilities? That would be the kiss of de-h.

This post is on point and we are all screwed, but wait there is more to the story. WHO THE HE-L IS GOING TO BE ABLE THE AFFORD THESE VEHICLES. Tell me who when they make far less in Mexico. Its a new form of BULLSH-T and the upper management makes more money for how long. Boot lickers

Ford will be a memory soon enough. Do the folks in Mexico make the kind of money that is needed to buy the high priced vehicles? NO. If the American people would just get there heads out of the sewer and stop buying these vehicles they would maybe wise up a bit. Nope keep getting laid off and screwed over and keep paying these ridiculous prices for vehicles that need to be taken in for recall after recall etc. etc. Just pi---s me the he-l off.

Dang, did you see the facilities? Child care center, badmitton, 3600 cafeteria seating? At first, I thought, why would they build a facility near Mexico City, which has the 15th highest crime rate in the world? Then, when you see the photo, it's like a fortress. They (execs) are definitely trying to move operations overseas.

In the meantime, PD has a lonely ping pong table and WHQ has a piano.

NA salary jobs are moving to mexico and brazil more and more. I know a dept that has promoted an LL5 in Mexico and the LL5 virtually manages teams in US (for now?). Also an NA LVEA Program has PM team in Brazil who manages program virtually.

Some ICE engineering has already been sent to Ford Brazil. They fired the TS of these components last May and then sent the section work to Brazil. Now they are in charge of on going engine programs.

Farley has got to go he has ruined this company to the point I'm not even sure if they'll be around in a few years.

Once the testing is gone, and it’s been migrating there more and more, the show is over.

This is the most telling post I have seen yet! Ford is definitely not America First! Ford has lost its way! I used to bleed blue. No so much anymore.

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