Ford workers told their CEO "none of the young people want to work here"

Fortune

Ford CEO Jim Farley learned from older employees that some young workers at the carmaker were taking shifts at Amazon to make ends meet, he said at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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00:00During the union negotiation I did a lot of Gemba just going to our plants and listening

00:04and the older workers who'd been at the company said none of the young people want to work here

00:09Jim you pay $17 an hour and they they are so stressed they got to work at Amazon for eight

00:16hours then they come over to Ford for work for seven hours and then they sleep for three or

00:21four hours and then they go back and they're barely getting by so we we we took every temporary

00:27worker and made them full-time it wasn't easy to do it was expensive but I think that's the kind

00:32of changes we need to make in our country

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