Top-scale assembly plant workers make about $32 per hour, plus large annual profit-sharing checks. Ford said average annual pay including overtime and bonuses was $78,000 last year. The Ford plant that’s on strike employs about 3,300 workers, and it makes Bronco SUVs and Rang...
Tensions were high at the plant for weeks leading up to the strike, Gruich said. On Thursday night, employees represented by UAW's Local 900 got little work done because management took vehicles off the line as employees were eager to see how labor negotiations would play out, he said. ...
Ford Motor shares slumped lower Thursday after the United Auto Workers union expanded its strike action to include its biggest production facility, a surprise escalation of its dispute with the Big 3 carmakers.
Britney Johnson, 35, who has worked for the company about 3 1/2 years, joined about 400 workers on the picket line outside the Ford's Wayne plant in suburban Detroit. A mass rally was scheduled for Friday afternoon in downtown Detroit. "I like the job," she said. "It's just...
United Auto Workers (UAW) members at Ford's Louisville, Kentucky, truck plant walked off the job late Wednesday, joining union counterparts across the Big 3 automakers who have walked off the job since contracts expired four weeks ago. UAW president Shawn Fain and vice president Chuck Browning ...
FILE PHOTO: United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain joins UAW members who are on a strike, on the picket line at the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, U.S., September 15, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
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is resuming construction on a Michigan electric vehicle battery plant that the company postponed two months ago during a strike by the United Auto Workers union. But the automaker says that due to slowing electric vehicle sales growth, it will scale back the factory size, cutting the numb...
Ford has discontinued the Edge SUV, and the last one will be out the factory doors on April 26, 2024. The union representing workers reported this information while Canada's Unifor 707 broke the news to members, stating, “As communicated by the Plant Manager, the last Edge is scheduled to...