Ford Australia wants pay freeze and two-tier wages

Bossxr8 · 19-07-2009, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by fte50

Here Here.
It seems modern man has forgotten the moral principals our forefathers fought so hard for, and the main one was 'Equality'.
An employee has a vested interest to protect/honor their employer TO A DEGREE, however should they be punished for the wrong doing of management who have clearly failed to predict/respond to changing markets, products, technologies etc?. After all, it is their job (managements) that should bear the responsibility for all. Its the decisions they make which steers the company in either direction.
Sure, they take a wage freeze, though its slightly different being frozen on say $50k versus $125+k.
Remember, no major gave you a pay rise coz they liked you - it was faught for.

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Thats one thing that troubles me about Ford. The management, product planners and sales and marketing teams are never held responsible when they make mistakes ie. the failure of the FG Falcon launch. It took Marin's appointment to slowly start to turn it around, but when the FG tanked early on it was the employees on the plant floor that suffered and got laid off, while those directly responsible for failing to read the market, and the pathetic job they did in selling and advertising the product went untouched. The people who make the wrong calls are the ones who should be held responsible for their mistakes. Tom Gorman was never held responsible for his job of totally mis-managing the company and nearly sending it to the wall, if anything he was actually rewarded by keeping his job for what I believe was the longest time period that FoA has ever had the one president for. He wasn't even sacked for the poor job he did, he left on his own accord, although he may have been pushed, not that the company would ever admit that.

Bill Osbourne tried but he was handed the poison chalice from Tom Gorman and couldn't clean up the mess. At least Marin has that one thing Geoff Polites always talked about, passion. Its amazing what happens when you have someone in charge who has a real passion for the place. Hopefully Detroit will learn that next time they appoint a president for FoA.