Delphi Closes Bathrooms
To: [Delphi] Kokomo Site Employees
From: Mike Moran, Facility Manager, Kokomo Operations
Subject: Modification of Housekeeping Services to Improve Kokomo Site
Competitiveness
Modification of Housekeeping Services to Improve Kokomo Site Competitiveness
January 8, 2009
After detailed efforts to analyze and confront the housekeeping costs at the
Kokomo site, local management and the UAW have jointly established a plan to
significantly improve the site’s competitive position in the area of
custodial service costs. The resulting plan establishes a smaller group of
housekeeping personnel focused on core activities. Cost savings will be
immediate and will be achieved through productivity improvements and
reduction in the housekeeping work load.
The following elements are key components of the operating plan that will
affect all employees as soon as Monday, January 12:
* Consistent with the closure of Plant 9, Plant 10 and ITC, and in line with
the site population, several restrooms will be closed. Notices will be
placed on the doors of the restrooms that will be closed and the locations
for alternate options will be posted
* Incidental housekeeping will be performed by all employees. This includes
emptying of one’s trash basket into an area container and replacing trash
basket liners, and miscellaneous cleaning with a spray disinfectant and
wipes in one’s immediate work area. Supplies needed for these activities
(replacement liners, wipes, etc.), will be available in a manner consistent
with each area’s process for distributing general supplies. Maps indicating
the area trash collection containers will soon be distributed to area
personnel.
* Cleaning frequencies will be reviewed and extended where practicable.
Your support of this initiative is appreciated as the site takes this
significant step to improve our competitiveness. Further detailed
information will be provided soon.
Mike Moran
Facility Manager,
Kokomo Operations
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Heh. Well I don't think closing bathrooms is that big a deal but I love the happy face spin they put on it. I did some work once for an aerospace company that was having troubles and trying to save money. They decided to cut back and even eliminate health insurance to salaried employees. I thought it would be a downer but it's actually a good thing to loose your health insurance, you'll be better off!
Reminds me of when our secretaries retired, both within 3 months of each other. In order to "save" money they didn't hire new ones for several months (general hiring freeze in place). For several months we had no secretaries and instead we had engineers answering the phones, doing the filing, etc. As I was about the only one willing and able to do such tasks, I was basically a secretary making engineer's wages for those months. Explain to me how paying twice as much money to an engineer as a secretary to do a secretary's job saves any money? If Delphi's engineers don't have enough to keep them busy, rather than shifting them to maintenance/cleaning, why not fire them and keep the maintenance people for less money?