Thread: Ford Motors response to me via email

Answer from Ford to me.
Thank you for contacting the Ford Motor Company Customer
Relationship Center regarding our recent restructuring
announcement as part of our "Way Forward" plan for North
America.

Thank you for contacting the Ford Motor Company Customer
Relationship Center regarding our recent restructuring
announcement as part of our "Way Forward" plan for North
America.

Ford's strengths were built over 100 years, and we are taking
the tough-but-necessary steps to address our issues with candor,
speed and compassion for the people impacted by our workforce
reductions. For the third year in a row, Ford Motor Company was
profitable, with net income of $2 billion, or $1.04 a share.
Ford Credit once again made a substantial contribution to our
overall results. And, excluding special items, South America,
Europe and Asia Pacific were all profitable on a full-year
basis, but these profits were more than offset by losses in
North America.

"Way Forward" is our comprehensive plan to focus every part of
Ford's North American business on the customer. It will lead to
stronger Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brands, a strengthened
product lineup and far greater quality, competitive costs and
productivity. The bottom line is a return to profitability in
our North American automotive business no later than 2008 and a
stabilization of our U.S. market share in the near term.

Our North American capacity is being realigned to match demand.
14 manufacturing facilities will be discontinued resulting in
significant structural savings and reduced employment of
25,000-30,000. In addition, we are planning a new low-cost
manufacturing site for the future.

Our new competitive cost structure includes net material cost
reductions of at least $6 billion by 2010. Productivity
improvements will leverage the company's global product
development scale and lean and flexible manufacturing system to
introduce more products faster.

There is much more to the Way Forward plan than just cost
cutting - it will help us reestablish a clear sense of who we
are and what we stand for in North America, and deliver great
new products that customers will find exciting and want to buy.

Thank you again for your interest in Ford and the Way Forward
announcement.

If you have any other inquiries or concerns, please feel free to
contact us and we will be happy to address them for you.

Sincerely,
Harold
Customer Relationship Center
Ford Motor Company

[THREAD ID:1-36ATE7]

-----Original Message-----

My email to Ford Motors
Questions: Sorry, our Ford 150 is the last Ford product we will
ever buy.
Buying from Chinese cheap laborers is not for our family.

Putting American's out of work in order to globalize and make
cheap, but
continue to make Billions for CEO's, is only funding Chinese
armies.

Why didn't you work with the Unions? Why didn't you ask them to
work with
you?

IF things are not changed in America soon, there will be no one
of middle
class, to buy your high priced vechicles that are made on the
cheap.

Good Luck selling to Mexico and China...you will need them.

American's are fed up with globalization, it only benefits the
rich CEO's
and foreign countries.

Anyone have a good response for me to send them?????

it will help us reestablish a clear sense of who we
are and what we stand for in North America

As far as I'm concerned, I already have a sense of who they are: TRAITORS!

Never, never, never another Ford will we buy.

Originally Posted by had_enuf

it will help us reestablish a clear sense of who we
are and what we stand for in North America

As far as I'm concerned, I already have a sense of who they are: TRAITORS!

Never, never, never another Ford will we buy.

Ford Motor Company is a huge supporter of La Raza and anything that benefits illegal labor. They are probably the single biggest employer of H1-B labor from India and their "chicken little" cries of layoffs are hard to believe when you find out that a big part of their lies concerning their "way forward" plan is centered on the fact that thousands of American job positions are showing up in India where Ford seems to have plenty of money to go around there.

http://media.ford.com/newsroom/feature_ ... ease=17213

Ford Increases Support of Hispanic Communities with $1 Million Donation

Ziad Ojaki, group vice president, Corporate Affairs, Ford Motor Company.
WASHINGTON D.C. -- Continuing its commitment to enrich opportunities in the Hispanic community, Ford Motor Company announced it will make a $1 million contribution to the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the largest Latino civil rights organization in the United States.

http://media.ford.com/newsroom/feature_ ... ease=18091


LANSING, Mich., June 21, 2004 --- Mexican President Vicente Fox and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Mexican government have awarded the prestigious Reconocimeinto Ohtli medal to Jim Padilla, chief operating officer and chairman of Automotive Operations, Ford Motor Company. President Fox presented the medal to Padilla at a Hispanic community meeting in Lansing, Michigan.

Padilla carries a Mexican Consular card as a symbol of his support for legal Mexicans citizens living and doing business in the United States. The card is a key tool in allowing Mexicans to live and work with a sense of security in the U.S.

[as any regular reader of Alipac already knows, the so-called Mexican Consular card is an unrecognized document and its use is not a legal entry document for Mexicans in the United States.]

http://nclr.org/section/about/funding/

Ford Foundation

Ford Motor Company Fund

http://thevoiceblog.thevoice.name/?p=886

It is with this thought in mind that we should examine the recent actions of Ford Motor Company and how they relate to Ford’s short-sighted support for La Raza. La Raza lists both Ford Motor Company and the Ford Foundation among their corporate contributers. One can only wonder why Ford would contribute to an organization whose policies and beliefs directly contribute to the loss of sales of Ford’s products.

Ford recently announced it would cut 10,000 white-collar positions in addition to offering buyout and early retirement packages to all of its 75,000 hourly employees. It also suspended its dividend. Ford also announced the closing of two additional plants. The new cuts bring the total number of plant closures to 16, adding to the 14 plants announced in the previous restructuring plan.

The ostensible reason for these cutbacks is to streamline its operation, thereby cutting costs and making its products more attractive and more affordable to consumers. What Ford Motor Company seems to be ignoring is that there is more than one way to make its products more affordable to consumers, and that is where its support of La Raza comes into question. While decreasing the cost of its products is certainly one way to make its cars more affordable, Ford is completely ignoring the other alternative, which would be increasing the income of their customers.

La Raza likes to portray itself as a “Hispanic civil rights organization”; nothing could be further from the truth. La Raza is every bit as much a “Hispanic power” group as the KKK is a “white power” group. Their motto, “Para La Raza, todo, fuera La Raza, nada.” (“For the race, everything, outside the race, nothing.”), speaks volumes about their philosophy and their intent. But their racial bigotry is only the tip of the iceberg. La Raza advocates open borders and the importation of unlimited migrant workers from Mexico and other third-world Latin American countries – workers who will undercut the wages of all middle-class Americans. It does not take an economic genius to recognize that an unlimited supply of cheap labor will not only displace millions of American workers and leave them unemployed but will also drive down the wages of all other American workers.

http://www.itworld.com/App/644/CWSTO58739/

Ford Motor Co.'s accounts payable processing unit in India typically loses power three or four times each day. On top of that, it's difficult to establish a telephone connection there. Meanwhile, employee turnover for IT staff in this region is an eye-popping 30% per year.

But these daunting challenges won't stop the world's second-largest automaker from opening a major IT hub in India later this month.

Ford plans to open a major IT hub in Chennai, India on March 29:

*The 80,000-square-foot facility will cost about $10 million to equip.

*It will handle CAD/CAM development, e-mail processing and application development.

*The staff will include 700 to 1000 outsourced developers and e-mail processors.

*Ford expects to save $30 million to $60 million per year.

Eventually, Ford hopes to make the site a mainstay of its global technology operations, said John Larson, director of Ford Asia Pacific -- Information Technology.

"Nobody is doing exactly what we're doing," said Larson. "If it is successful, we want to see [the Indian facility] take on more responsibilities, as long as it's cost effective."

Advantages Abound

"There are advantages to having IT systems in India, in terms of the costs, time difference and other features," said Gerard O'Shea, an analyst at The Yankee Group in Boston.

For instance, according to Yankee Group research, it costs $12 for a U.S. company to field a 30-minute customer support call in the U.S. and about $3 to $5 for an e-mail response. By contrast, those costs may be significantly lower in India, O'Shea said.

Ford plans to spend $10 million on the first phase of getting the subsidiary, Ford Information Technology Services of India, up and running.

That investment will cover the equipment and technology needed to operate the IT hub but not the costs for personnel. To handle its labor, Ford will outsource all of its software development, e-mail processing and other IT management services -- a staff of about 700 to 1,000 workers -- to Indian contractors, Larson said.

Numerous U.S. firms, such as New York-based American Express Co. and Benton Harbor, Mich.-based Whirlpool Corp., have also outsourced call center support to Indian contractors, whose personnel costs are significantly lower, analysts said. But Ford is planning to forge ahead with another aspect of customer care: e-mail processing.

"Its pretty hard to send or receive an e-mail [from] Ford, because we have never had the capacity to do e-mail processing," Larson explained.

The e-mail processing center will be managed by Percepta, a joint venture that Ford launched last April with Denver-based Teletech Holdings Inc. to improve its customer support services.

Ford isn't the only big company that's turning to IT to help pare costs during tough times. Last week, Fairfield, Conn.-based General Electric Corp. announced plans to step up its software development outsourcing to India to the tune of about $400 million this year, compared with the $280 million it spent last year.

Larson said GE's success influenced Ford's decision to open the hub in Chennai.

Challenges Remain

But Ford will still have to contend with India's wobbly infrastructure and high turnover rates for IT staff.

To meet those challenges, Ford is planning several steps. The Chennai subsidiary will link to Ford's global private network using a 2M bit/sec. circuit that runs through Singapore. Ford plans to double the capacity of the network to 4M bit/sec. by year's end.

And to help lower its IT turnover rates in India, Ford plans to offer U.S. and European work visas to the top 15% of the outsourced developer staff. Most developers "are going to move outside India anyway, so they might as well work on Ford programs," Larson said.

Under the orginal plans of the H1-B foreign visa work program, American citizens were supposed to be considered for work positions before hiring of foreign citizens was allowed to commence. Is it possible that Ford Motor is breaking the law by hiring foreigners to come into the United States by using the H1-B visa program?

If Ford is having so much trouble keeping their American employees employed, why do they spend money to bring Indian workers into the United States?

BOYCOTT FORD!!!

BOYCOTT FORD!!!

BOYCOTT FORD!!!

I think I counted the reference to North America in their response 8 times.

They are behind SPP/NAU.

I've never bought a Ford. Now, I never will. My niece wants a Mustang but I'll help her decide on another brand or she can drive one of the older cars already in the Family Fleet.

It's sad isn't it to think of Henry Ford and his big dreams for Americans?

He would be and probably already is rolling over in his grave to see what has happened to his once magnificent company because of and ya'all labelled it right ... Traitors.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar ... 1011/BIZ02

Do visas hurt U.S. workers?

Thousands of skilled professionals from overseas work for less money in positions Americans want, critics say.

Sarah Ryley / The Detroit News

Shown are the top 10 H-1B visas applicants for jobs in or originating in Michigan during fiscal year 2005. The number of workers the company actually received is likely a fraction of that amount.

1. Syntel Inc., Troy: Application represents 24,900 jobs. An IT outsourcing, offshoring and staffing firm, 79 percent of its 1,422 U.S. employees are on visas and receive wages $12,336 less than the industry average. Local clients include General Motors, Ford Motor Company and DaimlerChrysler Corp.
2. Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore, India: 5,877 jobs. One of India's largest IT outsourcing firms, 87 percent of its 8,000 U.S. employees are here on visas and act as liaisons between clients and U.S. operations, offers H-1B wages $13,537 below industry average. Does not release client information.
3. Covansys Corp., Farmington Hills: 2,585 jobs. An IT staffing and outsourcing firm with 67 percent of its staff located in India, offers H-1B wages $9,760 below the industry average. Henry Ford Health System, Ford, Visteon Controls and GM are its largest local clients.
4. The Tata Group, Mumbai, India: 935 jobs. An outsourcing, offshoring and staffing firm with a specialized automotive center in Troy, offers H-1B wages $22,016 below industry average. One of its first U.S. jobs was archiving the crime database for the Detroit Police Department. Ford is one of its top local clients.
5. Wipro, Ltd., Bangalore, India: 610 jobs. An outsourcing firm with the majority of its U.S. workforce on visas earning wages $17,074 below industry average. Was one of six to receive a contract from General Motors this year.
6. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: 451 jobs. Applications mainly for assistant and associate professors, assistant research scientists and research fellows.
7. Technosoft Corp., Southfield: 429 jobs. Primarily a staffing firm, offers H-1B wages $16,200 below industry average. Ford and DaimlerChrysler are its largest clients. 8. Insolexen, Novi: 355 jobs. Acquired by Ohio-based Perficient, a consulting and contracting firm that has Comerica as one of its local clients. Offers wages $26,288 below industry average.
9. Satyam Computer Services Ltd., Hyderabad, India: 341 jobs. A consulting, contracting and staffing firm that offers wages $15,235 below industry average.
10. Ved Software Services Inc., Farmington Hills: 315 jobs. An outsourcing and staffing firm that offers H1-B wages $23,984 below industry average. Amway Corp., DaimlerChrysler and Kelly Services are its largest local clients.
Sources: 2005 Labor Condition Application filings, company websites, 2005 and 2006 SEC filings, "The bottom of the pay scale: Wages for H-1B computer programmers," published in 2005 by the Center for Immigration Studies.
Related Articles

Should Congress increase the number of annual H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers?

This year, thousands of people from around the world will come to Metro Detroit through the federal government's skilled worker visa program. Many are among the best in their fields, and will develop software used for automotive design, handle the financials of Fortune 500 companies or work in hospitals doing everything from saving lives to coaching children through surgery.

Others will take jobs at Michigan and India-based technical firms and earn three-quarters of the market wage for their profession. Critics of the program say these workers will take jobs away from Americans, during a time when thousands of computer professionals are submitting resumes to the talent bank run by the Michigan Works! jobs agency.

As Congress considers increasing the annual cap of 85,000 visas for skilled workers, called H-1B visas, critics are citing recent studies that highlight the program's abuses, particularly in computer-related professions.

Our North American capacity is being realigned to match demand.
14 manufacturing facilities will be discontinued resulting in
significant structural savings and reduced employment of
25,000-30,000. In addition, we are planning a new low-cost
manufacturing site for the future.

Translation: Ford will be closing plants in America, increasing profit margins and salaries for executives by firing 25-30 thousand Americans, which will be out sourced by 3rd world sweat shops and opening plants outside of America.

Just when Ford figured out how to build a vehicle that would last more than 100,000 miles they are going to start filling it with plastic parts and light weight metals to reduce shipping cost. Fords future fleet Tin Can Tonka Toys that can't pass a crash test! Not to mention the 30,000 loyal customers they are about to fire, which will not be able to afford a new vehicle in the future.

Dixie

http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/group ... ?grpid=153
1111 19th Street NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC
20036

Phone :202-785-1670
URL: Website

Largest Hispanic organization in the U.S.
Lobbies for racial preferences, bilingual education, stricter hate crimes laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens
Named as a key member of the Open Borders Lobby in the pamphlet The Open Borders Lobby and the Nation's Security After 9/11, written by William Hawkins and Erin Anderson
Principally funded by the Ford Foundation


Currently the largest Hispanic organization in the U.S., the National Council of La Raza ("the Race") was established originally in 1968 as the Southwest Council of La Raza, for the purpose of "improv[ing] life opportunities for Hispanic Americans."The group was initiated by a research project funded by the Ford Foundation. Today La Raza has more than 270 formal affiliates serving 40 states, and a broader nationwide network of more than 30,000 groups and individuals who reach at least 3.5 million Hispanics in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Notwithstanding this large base of support, more than two-thirds of La Raza's funding comes from corporations and foundations, and much of the rest stems from government sources. Between 2001 and 2003, the Ford Foundation alone gave La Raza some $9.83 million, including a single grant of $8.05 million.

In turn, each year La Raza grants large amounts of this money to "Hispanic cornmunity-based organizations," some of which are quite obscure. Of the $1.3 million it gave out in 1996, for instance, $126,000 went to El Hogar del Nifio, $9,000 went to Chicanos por la Causa, and $30,000 was earmarked for Cabrillo Economic Development.

La Raza's politics are at the far left of the political spectrum. Its Policy Analysis Center lobbies for affirmative action, bilingual education, stricter hate crimes laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens. La Raza characterizes increased immigration control as a violation of civil rights, and the reduction of government handouts to immigrants as "a disgrace to American values."

La Raza was a signatory - along with more than 120 other leftwing organizations - to a 2000 campaign to increase the minimum wage. La Raza was also a signatory to a March 17, 2003 letter exhorting members of the U.S. Congress "to oppose the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (DSEA), also known as 'Patriot [Act] II,'" which was then under consideration. These signatories stated that the new legislation "fail[ed] to respect our time-honored liberties," and "contain[ed] a multitude of new and sweeping law enforcement and intelligence gathering powers . . . that would severely dilute, if not undermine, many basic constitutional rights." In addition, La Raza has given its organizational endorsement to the Community Resolution to Protect Civil Liberties campaign, a project of the California-based Coalition for Civil Liberties (CCL). The CLL tries to influence city councils to pass resolutions creating Civil Liberties Safe Zones; that is, to be non-compliant with the provisions of the Patriot Act.

La Raza has also endorsed the December 18, 2001 "Statement of Solidarity with Migrants," which was drawn up by the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. The statement called upon the U.S. government to "[r]ecognize the contribution of immigrant workers, students, and families, and [to] end discriminatory policies passed on the basis of legal status in the wake of September 11"; to "[g]uarantee and provide relief to the loved ones of the victims and those unemployed in the World Trade Center attacks, regardless of immigration status, without intimidation or threat of deportation"; and to adopt "the Plan of Action from the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance" - which was largely a forum for angry anti-American and anti-Israel tirades.

Furthermore, La Raza endorsed the Civil Liberties Restoration Act (CLRA) of 2004, which was introduced by Democratic Senators Ted Kennedy, Patrick Leahy, Russell Feingold, Richard Durbin, and Jon Corzine, and Democratic Representatives Howard Berman and William Delahunt. The CLRA was designed to roll back, in the name of protecting civil liberties, vital national-security policies that had been adopted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

La Raza is also a sponsoring organization of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition, which seeks to secure ever-expanding rights and civil liberties protections for undocumented workers, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and policy reforms that diminish or eliminate restrictions on immigration.

In addition to the Ford Foundation, La Raza also receives funding from: the American Express Foundation; the AT&T Foundation; the Carnegie Corporation of New York; the Annie E. Casey Foundation; the Fannie Mae Foundation; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the Joyce Foundation; the W. K. Kellogg Foundation; the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Open Society Institute; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the Rockefeller Foundation; and the Verizon Foundation.

Moreover, in 2005 La Raza received some $15.2 million in federal grants; it took in more than $30 million in such grants between 1996 and 2005.

I will never buy another Ford vehicle or GM vehicle.

TRAITORS TO OUR COUNTRY. GET YOUR PLANTS AND OFFICES OUT OF AMERICA. WE DON'T WANT YOU DOING BUSINESS IN AMERICA ANYMORE.

BOYCOTT, WRITE AND CALL EVERY COMPANY THAT SELLS OUT THEIR COUNTRY. TRAITORS!!!


I read an article the other day the board about the people of Mexico complaining about Wallmart trying to build in their community. They said it would take away business from the locals. WELCOME TO OUR WORLD. MAYBE THEY WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT WE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH IN THE US.

Originally Posted by CCUSA

I will never buy another Ford vehicle or GM vehicle.

TRAITORS TO OUR COUNTRY. GET YOUR PLANTS AND OFFICES OUT OF AMERICA. WE DON'T WANT YOU DOING BUSINESS IN AMERICA ANYMORE.

BOYCOTT, WRITE AND CALL EVERY COMPANY THAT SELLS OUT THEIR COUNTRY. TRAITORS!!!


I read an article the other day the board about the people of Mexico complaining about Wallmart trying to build in their community. They said it would take away business from the locals. WELCOME TO OUR WORLD. MAYBE THEY WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT WE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH IN THE US.

According to the Detroit Free Press, in an article a few months ago, Ford Motors will be building a $9.4 Billion plant in Mexico!

Last week, my husband and I went to a "fall festival" located at a new car dealership lot....not much there, but before we left, we did check out the "foreign" cars and the so-called American cars..we aren't in the market, just curious.

The price ticket on some said: Engine made in Japan, Transmission made in Mexico or Assembled in USA.....I couldn't believe what I was reading!