Apprenticeship List Procedure Change

   During the 1999 negotiations, the parties discussed the procedure used to select candidates for the Apprentice Program. Specifically, the modification affects the process by which Apprentice Program applicants who take the Apprentice Training selection System (ATSS) test battery are selected for placement on a facility’s Apprenticeship Eligibility List.

The modification to the selection procedure is as follows:

• Applicants who achieve test results at or above the qualifying level will be considered  “assessment-qualified”.  Applicants whose test results are below the qualifying level will not be considered “assessment-qualified”.

• Assessment-qualified applicants will be ranked according to their Ford Service Date, longest service to shortest service. Where ties in Ford Service Date occur (i.e., two or more applicants with the same Ford Service Date), such ties will be broken by ranking the tied applicants by the last four digits of their Social Security Number, in highest to lowest order (i.e., 9999 is highest; 0000 is lowest).

• Candidates will be selected for addition to the facility’s Apprenticeship Eligibility List based on their above-determined ranking.  As has been the standard practice, the number of candidates to be added to a facility’s Apprenticeship Eligibility List will be based on that facility’s forecasted two-year apprentice requirements.

   Applicants who, based on their test results, are not assessment-qualified will be provided feedback on their assessment results.  The purpose of this feedback is to provide the applicants insight into skill areas in which improvement may be needed if they wish to pursue future apprenticeship opportunities.  Feedback will not be provided to assessment-qualified applicants, whether or not they are selected for addition to the facility’s Apprenticeship Eligibility List.   

     Applicants who are not selected for placement on the facility’s Apprenticeship Eligibility List (whether or not they are assessment-qualified) will be required to re-take the test battery if they wish to pursue future apprenticeship opportunities.   

     It is anticipated that the modification to the apprentice selection procedure will be piloted for a period of two years.  The Company will monitor the results of this pilot and will advise the Union accordingly.  Depending on the outcome of the pilot, the Company may adopt this modification, with possible adjustments, as a standard practice within the apprentice selection procedure, or may suspend the pilot modification.  The Company will advise the Union in advance of any such actions.

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Brother Gary Lifford

Woodhaven Stamping
Plant Chairman, 

U.A.W. Local #387

Brother John Moore

President, U.A.W. Local #387

Brother Jeff Faber

Woodhaven Forging
Plant Chairman, 

U.A.W. Local #387

Brother T.J. Gomez

Vice-President, U.A.W. Local #387