Delphi Closes Bathrooms

Robert Farago
by Robert Farago

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


Robert Farago
Robert Farago

More by Robert Farago

Comments
Join the conversation
2 of 15 comments
  • Montgomery burns Montgomery burns on Jan 09, 2009

    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!

  • Anonymous Anonymous on Jan 09, 2009

    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?

  • MaintenanceCosts I hope they make it. The R1 series are a genuinely innovative, appealing product, and the smaller ones look that way too from the early information.
  • MaintenanceCosts Me commenting on this topic would be exactly as well-informed as many of our overcaffeinated BEV comments, so I'll just sit here and watch.
  • SCE to AUX This year is indeed key for them, but it's worth mentioning that Rivian is actually meeting its sales and production forecasts.
  • Kjhkjlhkjhkljh kljhjkhjklhkjh a consideration should be tread gap and depth. had wildpeaks on 17 inch rims .. but they only had 14 mm depth and tread gap measured on truck was not enough to put my pinky into. they would gum up unless you spun the libing F$$k out of them. My new Miky's have 19mm depth and i can put my entire index finger in the tread gap and the cut outs are stupid huge. so far the Miky baja boss ATs are handing sand and mud snow here in oregon on trails way better than the WPs and dont require me to redline it to keep moving forward and have never gummed up yet
  • Kjhkjlhkjhkljh kljhjkhjklhkjh Market saturation .. nothing more
Next