While Ford is not in a position to shape public policy, Ford CEO Jim Hackett and executive chairman Bill Ford have committed to engaging in public dialogue and providing corporate leadership — as has GM CEO Mary Barra and Mike Manley, CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker has long-established itself in the law enforcement community as a trusted supplier of police cars and SUVs, which generate significant revenue for the automaker. The Police Interceptor, a highly modified Ford Explorer, is perhaps the most high profile current vehicle.
He sent a letter July 1 that discussed law enforcement, police reform, racism, tension, the Black Lives Matter movement and the company's responsibility. Holding these two thoughts together in one’s mind is possible, but now there is tension. It’s our belief the recent issues surfacing from the George Floyd tragedy are bringing a very intensive and necessary spotlight on police training and reform. In fact, I sit on the Business Roundtable, an organization comprised of CEOs from America’s leading companies, which has committed its shared energy to the work on police training and reform.
II. By taking away our Police interceptors, we would be doing harm to their safety and making it harder for them to do their job. Again, this is why, given our insights, new capabilities and leadership, I believe these unfortunate circumstances present Ford with an even greater opportunity to not only innovate new solutions but leverage our unique position to support the dialogue and reform needed to create safer communities for all.
Police is always needed!
Absolutely brilliant. That should help!! 🤫
That’s insane. What’s good for Ford is good for its employees.
This is so dumb already, just because there are a few bad apples on the tree doesn’t mean you have to cut down the tree’
They should then police can get real cars not junk ass fords
100 out of 190,000 employees. Lmao good luck
100 really I’m from the Great State of Michigan and 100 no account employees would not have a say in the Ford Motor Co that I knew back in the dayfire their asses
Let them get new jobs !!
Those are the Ford employees that should be removed immediately, they mean no good for the Ford company.
These Ford Employees should be grateful they have a job and not try to dictate who you sell the cars to and who to make cars for! These are a bunch of resurrected lowlifes, sounds to me like they have third grade education and black sheep following any dictates they are told!!!
Don't stop! We need our blue!
Then take a hike if it’s so far against their beliefs. So many are out of work I’m sure they’d have the positions filled in no time.
Estimated? So you mean like 44 out of how many employees? USA Today is becoming the National Enquirer.
This has got to be the most stupidest request ever made and those employees who request to lose money for the company they work for, just so they don't have to build police vehicles need to be fired!
Until the government prohibits such groups from threatening to shut down businesses, leaving millions of Americans unemployed, these coercive and oppressive tactics will continue. That said, Ford has made donations to BLM, admittedly a Marxist group as announced by its founders!
How about if Ford employees don’t want to make police vehicles, they can find a new job!
I bet those 100 people are Black Lives Matter Supporters.
This makes zero sense
More people every day are coming to terms with what the 'Twitter Tweeters' are helping the socialist left with. It's a push toward civil unrest then civil disobedience and finally, Civil War! Be extremely carefull of what you consider to be true from the camp!
A 100?
You got to be kidding tell the employees to quit
And an estimate 100 MILLION Americans have the asked the company to carry on.
Hit the unemployment line!
Hit the unemployment line,
100 employees doesn’t seem like a lot for Ford....
Disappointed in those employees
Ford better be smarter about that 😂
Let those 100 employees aware they are free to seek employment elsewhere. Now !
Go to the GLE450 supertuned MB. AngelaMerkel will vouch for it. Anything to stick it to AgentOrange 🍊
Ford has 190,000 employees. Why is this even news?
We can’t have no police. It’s totally unrealistic and dangerous. There are millions of police that are GOOD. Stop all the hating and acting irresponsible.
I don't see any point here; we need the Police, no matter what.
JUST PAINT BLACK LIVES MATTER TO ALL POLICE CARS!!!
Let me know your answer quick fordmotorco ... I have choices to make and getting ready to buy a new truck ChevyTrucks GMC
idiots, no, no,no
Fire them all
If judging people of colour as criminals and as a threat is wrong, judging all police officers the same way is wrong
Hire new employees
SMH.... police vehicles are a massive profit partner & anchor to this American company Honestly, every single one of them should defend why? Then get Fired.... And Replace them w Veterans!
It’s all good, Chevy does better
They should fire all 100
Any fordmotorco employee that is asking them to stop building police cruisers, should be fired immediately. do they know how much money that company makes off police/fire/rescue? I mean fired today now
Seriously let’s just all jump on the band wagon here like fordmotorco when the tough gets going what you just bail Sad no backbone. Add less money coming in means less production which = layoffs. Makes no sense. I’m ashamed to drive a ford .
fordmotorco if they could stop selling the creepy Black Ops style trucks that all the white supremicists drive. The ones used to intimidate the rest of us ALL THE TIME. Big truck, little wee wee.
Quit and be ‘woke’ someplace else!! defendthepolice CancelCancelCulture whinybitches
Those estimated 100 people are too stupid to be employed by Ford.
100 employees should go find another job. Kroger is hiring
They will be taking money from own pockets. Some things can be taken too far
Evil is good, and good is Evil. That’s the times we are living in.
Ok. Ford is a HUMONGOUS company! Out of aaaallll those 1,000’s and 1,000’s of employees, only 100 asked to stop building police cars Only 100? I say, “go find another fkn job if you don’t like it here! GTFO!” 🙄🙄
Show them the door or better yet they can buy those cars for themselves.
Madness.
Ford should fire them for being stupid
If there are employees who don't like company's product, then those employees need to find new jobs. A reasonable business person w/common sense would see it would hurt the company in more ways than one if they were to stop production of these vehicles just to please these morons
Leave the police alone, this is going too far. Weed out the bad ones and move on
How far does this need to go? Asinine is what it is. Each of the so called 'big three' make police vehicles. I'm sure the other two won't mind picking up the contract.
Maybe these employees should consider working somewhere else instead of putting the livelihood of their coworkers in jeopardy.
fire them
How do u control the masses? Take away ability to earn an income n make them dependent on the state for food n medical care. Take awy their ability to move around freely. Give them something or someone to hate. Exactly what.happened in nazi Germany
😂😂😂😂
What? A vehicle takes you from point A to point B.
Fire those ford employees.
Now that is stupid. You need to sell cars dummies
So stupid. Fire them all.
This is overkill. This will not prevent police brutality perpetrated on people of color. I'd rather see us stop spending on military type equipment for police departments. And an end to No Knock Warrants, chokeholds and police cover ups.
Ford employees 190,000 people. so this is .052 percent
The face of the other 189,900
How about these 100 pussies go work for another company.
Oh for heavens sake, we need to focus on what is important! Really.... the cars the police drive? No retrain the police and get rid of those that are racist. Discrimination should be reversed to turn a spotlight on the KKK as terrorists and the good ole boys.. racists!
Fire the 100 employees and hire another 100 employees from China, oh wait a mins , they are all communist..
everywhere are cars
Ford should reconsider their employment
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Time to get a new work crew,
I would like Ford to know that they were at the top of the list in my new pickup search and that now they are off the list entirely.
Ford Motor has about 190,000 employees. Let's hope the company is smart enough not to listen to 100 crackpots.
Now, this story is stupid.
100? and why?
This is why they open plants in Mexico and overseas. The people in foreign countries aren’t fucking stupid enough to risk their jobs for woke points.
I have 41 of these 8 in 1 Multi Functional Pressure Cookers that I need to sell by the end of July.
Fire them plenty of people will take their jobs easily
That’s like .000001% of all employees. Not worth discussing, move on.
Can. We. Please. STOP!!!! I can't even believe how insane our society has become!!😩
Are those 100 willing to lose their jobs due to the lost revenue?
The intent of this article is to cause undue uproar. Just disregard.
Crazy
White people angry
Don’t those dumbass employees know that building squads keep them working?
Not sure this is the proper arguement. I have no problems with any car maker making police vehicles. Would love to know why they’re requesting this.
F ound O n R oad D ead F ix O r R eplace D aily
First 100 lay offs goes too....
JUST A THOT - LESS PRODUCTION MEANS LESS EMPLOYEES NEEDED 🤔😱
Idiocy running rampant
Omfg. Stop your damn nick picking bullshit already. It’s not just police that has problems, It’s everyone. Everyone is ready to point fingers, except at them selves.
Lay them off.
🤦🏼♀️
Only 100!!
I bet it wouldn’t be hard to find 100 people to fill their roles. I’d fire all those people immediately… If not sooner!
Ford can’t Aford to do that
Ok, I'm very in favor of police reform & BLM, but this is just stupid. Do they actually think if Ford doesn't sell vehicles to police that another company won't pick up the slack? Besides, we need police & we need them to have the tools to do the job. We need actions that matter.
No
Why do cop cars have to look like they're badasses and painted dark and ominous. Why can't they be more visible and appear ready to assist and help. It's like they're little boys with hyper weak male egos to appease.
How stupid are they, undermining job security, also if ford agrees the amount of money company losses.
I guess they don't realize how much the Ford Motor Company's law enforcement contracts are.
If they have employees like that, I would have police departments reconsider buying their vehicles from Ford. Just saying. I want our police officers to be in the safest vehicles possible.
GM would probably be ok with taking over.
Fire them all or reassign to another vehicle. This is extremely dangerous rhetoric coming from production line workers. Unreal
100? Out of how many thousands?
Thats just dumb
Sack them
Great News gor Blue Thugs and their Bootlickers
The cancel group trying again, if any of them ever needs a cop call crack head .
Cucking for the movement
100 out of a workforce of thousands, carry on Ford building them.
100 idiots you mean...
Ridiculous communists
They need to find a different job. Bias and bigotry in the workplace shouldn’t be permitted.
A police car has hurt no one and this whole request is to stupid for words. Ford exes are going to throw away over a billion in contracts & customer business just because 100 replaceable employees don't like police. Even if they did, police won't be walking
Isn't this discrimination In a way?
The only thing Ford even makes that is showing a profit is the F150. If they bow to the mob it will be very sad.
Ford I've been waiting for the bronco before buying a new rig, but if you give in to the mobs, I'll definitely go JEEP. I doubt I'm the only one
Fire them all!!! If need be close down the plant or relocate it. I don't care but if they go along with this our ranger, F-250, Fusion 2014 & 2017 will be for sale.
Fire then clowns. Tell them they were due to work on the next batch of police cars
They should produce more police vehicles and all police should get salaries at least doubled annually! Weed out the bad cops and pay the good ones really well!!!
This is satire, right?
On if they want to stand up for themselves they can quit and refuse to build police cars. But they would never take responsibility themselves.
I'm sure Honda and Toyota support this plan.
They will be the first employees laid off when Ford has to shut down facilities.
I would sack them all, let them start their own firms and not make police vehicles.
The way to show that All Lives Matter is to give our police better personal and material tools, and increase their wages so we can select the best and weed out the underperforming. This defunding movement is so stupid it does not deserve any further consideration
100 out of how many employees? Stop trying to fabricate news stories!
I can not believe how absolutely STUPID some people are out there, STUPID!
At least paint them bright neons and reflecting decals
100 ford employees should get a different job
Hey, give them the new Chevrolet SUVs 🤣 - Ford Stocks are trash anyways! Or like the FBI some Lincoln Navigators 👍🏻
😂 notice how it says estimated* USA Today never has anything factual to report
The employes should be FINED. They don’t own FORD... stop being POLICE Anti-racist.
Fire them!
Currently there are 26 million people on unemployment in the US. I can only hope it will be 26,000,100 people now
I’d rather them have Fords than tanks.
At least a million ford drivers want them to keep building them.
What are they supposed to drive?
Someone actually listens 2 these nitwits? The employees say 'let's stop making this product & the mgmt says 'if we do, you'll lose your job.' The employees sheepishly walk away like the dumb asses they are & the mgmt says 'remember that the next time you offer us an ultimatum
We are not stopping building police. You don't stop building Police vehicles.
That’s the biggest crock of shit! I tell u what, stop building the cop cars, then lay-off those who asked to stop building them to help defer the cost of it!!
Great, 100 employes out of 190000, the majority rule does not come into play in current society.
YES THAT WILL DO IT! WE WILL LET THE POLICE RESPOND ON HORSEBACK LIKE THE OLD DAYS!
lay them off immediately! that's not a cancer you want in your company or part of any team.
That’s ok idiots 👌 Chevy’s are so much better !!
fire all 100
The CHP drives Explorers and they are Fast!
When you woke , you go broke ! Better keep that in mind
That’s just stupid.
joderrrrr que pedradaaaaa.Pues que los apunten en una lista y que no vaya la policía a su casa cuando les roben.
Estimated 100 out of 200,000 employees. Just FYI
Stuped
RobertTBruce8 Have they requested to be out of a job too , or do they just want paying not to build cars & fulfill their orders?
They probably are following, influenced by the Marxist leadership of BLM. Marxism, Nazi, Communism they’re all bad for our country.
This nonsense will never stop until the silent majority start speaking up.
Super dumb
Sure- stop building police vehicles. That way when another old woman is being robbed & raped (happened Flint, MI) cops can Uber Lyft /MTA their way on over. STFU w/dumb ass 'defund the police' bullsh as if that's the problem. Polices & procedures r the culprit -not funding.
Guaranteed they'd be the first to dial 911 to save their life though.
Stupid idea!
100 employees. What's that, 0.05 % of the workforce? Let's hear from the other 99.95 percent.
fordmotorco Either fire those 100 employees immediately or put them somewhere that they have no access to police/law enforcement vehicles being built.
I’m a Liberal Dem Elizabeth Warren supporter. We still need cops. Just good cops. And they still need cars. This is just stupid on their part.
You have got to be kidding me
So dumb
Do they want to lose their jobs? I’m sure that police vehicles are a huge part of production. This is getting ridiculous!
Nutty folks
Get woke, go broke. Again... and again... and again...
An engaged safety service within a community might be better served without sport utes.
You have to be a complete moron to even consider such BS! Under the same logic, Congress should ban all white cars as they may offend some “activist”!
Maybe Ford would have to lay off 100 workers if they stopped making police vehicles. That would be just magical! Just what they deserve for their ignorance
You're talking about the same Ford Company that sold vehicles and parts to the Nazi's durring WWII? Good Luck. From a Ford Guy 🤷🏾♂️ For the curious.
Fire them immediately for being stupid
The madness has to stop
Stop perpetuating this level of absurdity. 100 out of .... 175,000 employees.
Oh, how stupid.
If they didn’t sell the vehicles, they may have no jobs. And if they went to another manufacturer, it would still be an issue.
'Estimated 100' is that even 1%? More are probably unsatisfied with bathroom conditions at their plants.
Reconsider? For the what 2 percent that refuse to have police protection? At the point you go to work for a company while they may agree to implement cost saving changes, the loss of revenue would and could mean those 100 peoples jobs. Back the Blue.
Wow, 100 employees you say? This is the kind of stuff we're seeing in this country. A few speaking for the majority. A majority that just wants the few to shut their pie holes and get back to work
Lmao what a bunch of dumbasses Ford makes a lot of Police cars. I guess they don’t mind possibly losing their jobs 🤷🏻♀️.
Oh brother.
They should relocate to China and build cars for Dongfeng.
An estimated 100 ford employees need to be laid off.
The great thing about America is they’re free to quit their jobs if their values don’t align with their employer’s.
Wow
You've got to be kidding...
That’s dumb
Ronald Reagan! If they don't want to do their job there is someone who will! What gives them the right? Fire them!
With the rate the rioting BLM idiots are burning them...it would be great job security
lol, 100 out of thousands, so this is news, media narrative again, smh
Fire them.
Sure, why not? stop production!!! Jobs reduction, who should be at the top of the list?
That would be 100 people looking for new jobs , if I ran the plant. 🙄
I’m sure GM would appreciate that.
Some people are not too bright but they can go work for another company
Oh 100 nerds
I’m calling bullshit. Even if, Ford employs 190,000 people. 100 peoples opinions are negligible.
Looks like the employees values don’t match up. Perhaps they should seek other employment.
I believe there should be some police reform but this request is stupid especially from Ford employees. It not like Ford is selling car like Toyota and Hyundai in this country. Need all the business they can get.
Those 100 employees should look for a new job.
Nope
I hope these same employees will not be expecting speedy response when they dial 9-1-1.
Hmmm So Police now don't need vehicles? Absolutely insane....
Those that don't want a job should reconsider quitting while they're 'so woke' and let others who do replace them 🤨
Unless their premise is that the vehicles are not profitable for the company (which would be fair if true), they should be fired. It's every employees job to help the company make money legally.
DEFUND THE POLICE
Originally I remember when here in Seattle the SeattlePD was looking at two different types of new police car are you ready drum roll please first one was going to be the Toyota Prius but no they had a bitch fit! I remember this. I think they should have been given the Prius
Thats so unamerican. If any of these people get threatened or burglarized guess who they gonna call 🤡🤣. Just look at what is happened to NY everyone with money is leaving as it turns into a third world shithole. Some ppl so dumb its astounding.
Yeah like that will happen!! Will they volunteer to lose their jobs because of falling sales!!
That's a good source of money, and work for employees.
An estimated 100 employees at Ford are completely stupid.
That doesn't make sense.
If the police don't have cars
Here comes the horses.
Collectively, Americans, (both Dems and Repubs), are some of the most stupid people on earth!
Damn some people are dumb ..
Fuck them.
Ford fever hits Markets 👐 MakeInIndia MakeinAmerica
When you're so woke that you want to lose your job just to virtue signal.
Yes, the car is the problem. The stupid is off the charts.
Seriously? Without production = potential layoffs?
WTF
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