Your Suggestion
To Enfield Plant Employees.
The following is a suggestion of a proposal to be taken to the negotiating table and put forward to the Unite union and Visteon management on behalf of all employees of Enfield Plant / Belfast Plant / Basildon Plant:
Existing employee's contracts:
* Our suggestion would be that all employees with Ford Motor Company service would be entitled to a negotiable sum per year of Ford service. We suggest this sum is 1000 GBP per year of Ford Service.What is the feasibility of reopening the plant?
* What is new structure?
* A new negotiable employee wage structure?
* Staffing structure i.e.. hourly / salaried?
* Pension facility?
Our suggestions for a new Plant and structure:
* New wage structure for hourly and staff employees to ensure sustainability.
* Wage consultations to be managed internally and agrees to reflect the Company's profits and stability.
The new Company will then be able to tender for new business at a competitive level.
* Initially all employees will return to theiroriginal posts. With the redeployment and job evalution to be agreed to satisfy the plant and the company's long term requirements.
* All posts to be filled by internal staff: for example security / cleaners / stores etc.
* Temporary labour to be employed when and wgere necessary to ensure order / contract fulfilment.
* Pension scheme to be negotiated: To ensure that both the employee and employer contribution is affordable within the new structure.
* All above points are negotiable.
If you have any thoughts or suggestions that you wish to be considered for inclusion in this proposal, please forward them to me as soon as possible as we need to ensure this is ready for the next meeting.
In preparing this document we hope to bring this matter to a successful end for all involved.
Yours faithfully..... Bob Kiff. (Bob Kiff can be contacted on 07930 582861) Do you have any suggestions? Email us.
A letter to "PANORAMA" sent on 23rd April 2009
Dear Sir/madam,
My Name is Stephen Parenti and I was a union Chair at Visteon In Enfield.
I am writing to you in the hope you can help 600 workers, between Visteon Belfast, Visteon Enfield London, and Visteon Basildon Essex.
In June 2000, Ford Motor Co created a subsidiary Company called visteon. Ford employees at these plants were given 'mirrored' contracts, i.e., Ford Motor Company terms and conditions for life.
No other contracts regarding Visteon were ever signed by Ford employees at these plants. Since that date the employees at these plants have assisted Ford/Visteon in every way to facilitate the introduction of new products and adopt 'lean Manufacturing Practices'.
On March 31st 2009 at 2.30pm all employee's at the three plants were informed with 6 minutes notice to leave the premises, as Visteon Uk Ltd had ceased trading and was in receivership. Most of the employees averaged 20 years of service, Some with 30 - 40 years service.
In all, 600 employees now face extreme financial difficulties, the lose of their homes and a uncertain future. Why? Because Ford Motor Company will not honour our contracts or agreements that visteon originally signed.
Steve Gawne was the Director of Visteon UK LTD and planned the closure since 2007 i.e., Project Protea for Belfast and project Kennedy for Enfield. We have documents on our website tuitar.com.
How can a company go into administration when this was planned as far as 2007?
Is this not being fraudulent to avoid paying redundancies and tax?
Steve Gawne even registered at Company House, a new company called Automotive Products in February 2009 for the Same Visteon Plant in Basildon before it went into administration.
How is this possible? Does he have his own laws for himself? And is he above the law?
Well the government seem to think so.
He has the money to reopen the plant but not to pay the ford/visteon workers their redundancy Package.
Also another Visteon plant near to the Basildon Plant Changed its company name a year ago to (VES) Visteon engineering services, They are still operating with the same director
Steve Gawne. How? I'm sure in Europe and America you couldn't get away with it,
Why can they here? Because the employment laws here are very weak.
If a company in Italy goes into administration, the company pay an insurance which will pay employees 4 years of their wages.
In France its 80% of their wages for a one year, Here its 6mins and go away and fend for yourself.
If you go to Visteon.com and look under their ethic's and integrity policy everything they say about their integrity is not worth the paper it is printer on.
They paint a picture for all to see that it is a company that cares, but in reality they are callus, ruthless and fraudulent behind closed doors.
The Unions can only do so much and can not be aggressive in their attack because government has them on a leash.
I am begging on behalf of all the workers if you could possibly help us to investigate what they have done to us and get justice to highlight what is going on in this country, in the treatment of employees who give they life service to be treated without respect.
Many families have been affected and some had both Husband and wife working there which is even a bigger strain for them to endure.
The stress caused to all families involved is immense, worries and arguments are a daily occurrence which isn't good for your health. My wife had a mini Stroke probably due to the stress of me loosing my job. I truly hope you can help its our only hope to get to the truth.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr Stephen Parenti
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