The following is a letter written by Debi Muncy, a Saline worker and a friend to workers,
she is writing to a reporter about what is happening to Ford workers.
Dear Sir,
I am so sorry to have missed you in Detroit when you were here. Thank you for being interested in how these corporate saving manuvers have affected the workers. I can only speak for myself and what I see around me.
The jobs in my plant have gone from high paying jobs you could support a family on to just above survival level, with 12 hours/7 day a week mandatory as a work schedule. No time to see a family and not enough money to provide a home and food for them. Many young workers can only afford to live with family if they want shelter and to have enough left out of a paycheck to buy gas to go to work.
Moral of this workforce has plummeted. We had a voice in the day to day operation and the control to instantly stop bad parts. Now there is an atmosphere of "shut up and go to work". Not only is the workers input not welcome, but is taken as hostility towards management. Seniority employees are forced to other locations to begin again to prove their value to a corporation that will throw them away at first chance, while new workers are held in temporary status with insane and unfair work rules.
We can see clearly that the corporations have been saved. We can see thru the smokescreen that says new jobs are being created because they are not new, just reduced pay and bebefits. Not jobs you can live on. Not only is our sense of valued contribution to productivity gone, but our self worth as human beings.While corporations brag about how much profit they arre creating American workers know that they are paying for it with greatly reduced earnings and the physical toll on their bodies.
What I see is that no longer do corporations have tto go to another country for cheap labor. They have created those conditions here. We are obviously not valued as customers because on these paychecks all that can be afforded are the very imports that drive our work standards even lower. In one transaction the major corporation gets to keep the land and the tax breaks. The new takeover company gets a reduced rate workforce and to displace seniority workers while the state kicks in money for " new job creation". And all along the same product is made with the same name stamped in it. Of course there is no price reduction on final product to consumers. only more profit for the corporation. Working people loose a proud and productive selfworth to realize they are simply a tool to be used and then discarded.
Feel free to contact me at [email protected] or call me at 517 416 4197, Thank you again for your interest in the threat to us as working people.
Sincerely
Debi Muncy
she is writing to a reporter about what is happening to Ford workers.
Dear Sir,
I am so sorry to have missed you in Detroit when you were here. Thank you for being interested in how these corporate saving manuvers have affected the workers. I can only speak for myself and what I see around me.
The jobs in my plant have gone from high paying jobs you could support a family on to just above survival level, with 12 hours/7 day a week mandatory as a work schedule. No time to see a family and not enough money to provide a home and food for them. Many young workers can only afford to live with family if they want shelter and to have enough left out of a paycheck to buy gas to go to work.
Moral of this workforce has plummeted. We had a voice in the day to day operation and the control to instantly stop bad parts. Now there is an atmosphere of "shut up and go to work". Not only is the workers input not welcome, but is taken as hostility towards management. Seniority employees are forced to other locations to begin again to prove their value to a corporation that will throw them away at first chance, while new workers are held in temporary status with insane and unfair work rules.
We can see clearly that the corporations have been saved. We can see thru the smokescreen that says new jobs are being created because they are not new, just reduced pay and bebefits. Not jobs you can live on. Not only is our sense of valued contribution to productivity gone, but our self worth as human beings.While corporations brag about how much profit they arre creating American workers know that they are paying for it with greatly reduced earnings and the physical toll on their bodies.
What I see is that no longer do corporations have tto go to another country for cheap labor. They have created those conditions here. We are obviously not valued as customers because on these paychecks all that can be afforded are the very imports that drive our work standards even lower. In one transaction the major corporation gets to keep the land and the tax breaks. The new takeover company gets a reduced rate workforce and to displace seniority workers while the state kicks in money for " new job creation". And all along the same product is made with the same name stamped in it. Of course there is no price reduction on final product to consumers. only more profit for the corporation. Working people loose a proud and productive selfworth to realize they are simply a tool to be used and then discarded.
Feel free to contact me at [email protected] or call me at 517 416 4197, Thank you again for your interest in the threat to us as working people.
Sincerely
Debi Muncy
