*Meeting are suspended for the months of
January, February and March 2019
Meetings are the first Wednesday of the month at 1pm.
Retiree Meeting held September 12, 2018
Retiree Meeting May 16, 2018
November 16, 2018
Union leaders from North America, Europe and Australia foster international solidarity at Port Elgin, National Skilled Trades Council sees members report on workplace issues, and materials for National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women can be ordered online.
More than 140 union activists from several countries attend the first ever North American Solidarity Project Conference.
Race for the Cure Volunteers Needed
Susan G. Komen® Greater Detroit is looking for volunteers interested in joining the planning committee for the annual Komen Detroit Race for the Cure®. There are a variety of volunteer opportunities. Planning committee members meet once a month from January through April, and have support and guidance from Komen Greater Detroit staff. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Komen Greater Detroit coordinator Amelia Zubeck at 248.234.8795 or email AZubeck@komengreaterdetroit.org.
Ford News
Ford, Walmart and Postmates Team Up for Self-Driving Goods Delivery
Ford is teaming up with Walmart to explore how self-driving vehicles can deliver everyday goods such as groceries. The pilot program is enabled by Postmates, which already partners with both companies. It will explore how Ford's self-driving vehicles can complement Walmart's existing delivery options. To read the full article, click here
Veterans Share Memories of Leaving for War from Michigan Central Station
Upon its opening in 1914, Michigan Central Station handled growing passenger traffic in and out of a booming Detroit. The colossal structure in the city's Corktown neighborhood welcomed waves of immigrants coming to Detroit to start new lives and take jobs in a burgeoning auto industry. Over the years, the iconic station became a gateway of another kind. Beginning with America's entry in the first World War in 1917, young men leaving for basic training after their military inductions became a common scene at Michigan Central Station. This continued over the decades as people departed to fight in World War II, Korean and Vietnam. To read the full article, click here
Harvick Advances to NASCAR's Championship 4
Kevin Harvick clinched a spot in the Championship 4 with a fifth-place finish at Phoenix to join fellow Ford driver Joey Logano with a chance to win the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship Sunday as part of Ford Championship Weekend. To read the full article, click here.
Ford Fund Reserves $100,000 for Disaster Relief in California
Ford Motor Company Fund has set aside $100,000 in donations to aid wildfire relief and recovery efforts in California, which is battling two deadly fires at both ends of the state. To read the full article, click here.
Global Notes
How Ford Helped Ken Block Create the Hoonitruck with the Largest 3D Metal-Printed Car Part Ever
Hoonigan and Ford ambassador Ken Block is back to his tire-shredding best in Gymkhana Ten, which is set for release on YouTube Dec. 7. It features a stunning 1977 Ford F-150 Hoonitruck, which has the same twin-turbo 3.5-liter V6 EcoBoost® engine as the Ford GT, but tuned to deliver more than 900 horsepower. To read the full article, click here.
Ford Mustang Comes Back to Life as Comic Strip on Wheels
When this Ford Mustang suffered irreparable internal damage, it looked like the end of the road. But cartoonist and illustrator Fabrizio De Tommaso had other ideas. From the outside at least, he envisioned it becoming a work of art. To read the full article, click here.
Retiree Connect
Show Us Your Ford
Do you love Ford as much as we do? Show your love for Ford by participating in our Me and My Ford campaign. How do you enter? It's simple. Send a pic of you with your Ford (.jpg format, please), with a caption including brief information about your career at Ford and your vehicle, to blueoval@ford.com. Or post your photo on Twitter or Instagram and tag @AtFordOnline using #FordRetiree #MeandMyFord.
We'll spotlight a new photo each week in the Blue Oval Connect weekly briefing. Let's see those Fords! Weekly Spotlight
Outside Voices
Ford Plans to Turn Self-Driving Cars into a Real Business (Quartz) Ford has stated it plans to have self-driving cars on the road in some commercial capacity by 2021, and has been building out a testing facility in Miami for the last nine months. It now operates dozens of autonomous test vehicles in the city. At an event Wednesday in Florida's biggest city, Ford gave journalists an early look at how it believes its autonomous vehicle service might operate, and what the average rider might be in store for in just a few short years, assuming all goes according to plan. To read the full article, click here.
Ford Keeps It Simple, Moving to 25 Mirrors Instead of 139 for Just One Model (Forbes) As part of a comprehensive “fitness redesign,†Ford Motor Company is embracing simplicity as a virtue. For example, standardizing content and colors on the 2020 Ford Explorer means the company could delete more than 100 possible variations of exterior mirrors compared with the 2018 model, according to a Ford presentation Wednesday at the Barclays Global Automotive Conference in New York. To read the full article, click here.
Model T Emerges from California Fire with Barely a Scratch (The New York Times) Ron Westbrook's house is gone, the burned hull of a washer visible in the rubble, and a mangled satellite dish, too. In his collapsed garage, two cars, including a beloved 1941 Plymouth, are no more than blackened shells. But at the end of Westbrook's driveway, in the shade of charred pines, a 103-year-old Ford Model T somehow escaped with only minor paint damage, standing out like a museum piece in a vast landscape of destruction. To read the full article, click here.
Ford, Walmart and Postmates Team Up for Self-Driving Goods Delivery
Veterans Share Memories of Leaving for War from Michigan Central Station
Harvick Advances to NASCAR's Championship 4
Ford Fund Reserves $100,000 for Disaster Relief in California
How Ford Helped Ken Block Create the Hoonitruck with the Largest 3D Metal-Printed Car Part Ever
Ford Mustang Comes Back to Life as Comic Strip on Wheels
