Fain hasn't said why UAW leadership chose the Wayne plant to strike. Gruich said he thinks it's because workers at the facility also make parts of seven other plants in the Midwest that produce the Ford Escape, F-250 and F-350 vehicles as well as dashboards for the F-150. The part...
The Chicago and Lansing moves are part of the UAW's "stand-up strike" — a rhetorical nod to the "sit-down" strike by GM workers in Flint, Michigan, in the 1930s. The strike beganon September 15when nearly 13,000 autoworkers halted work at Big Three assembly plants Michigan, Missouri...
The article reports on the 24-hour strike staged by workers of Ford at the car manufacturer's plants in Great Britain on June 18, 2012 in protest against changes to their pay and pension scheme. Ford claims that only a small proportion of its employees is affected by the labor dispute. ...
Battery plants partly owned by Detroit's automakers were a major sticking point during the union's six-week strike against Ford, General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis in late 2023. The union previously notched victories with Ultium Cells, a joint venture between GM...
Unifor, which represents roughly 18,000 workers at Ford, GM and Stellantis plantsin Canada, threatened to go on strike at all three of Ford's plants in the country if a deal was not reached by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday. "We leveraged our union’s most powerful weapon: the right to str...
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plants will meet on Friday to approve the deal which then must be sent to Ford's 55,000 union members for ratification. Ford has a closer relationship with the UAW than the other Detroit manufacturers with Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford calling the UAW "Family" and that the UAW "helps ...
Ford put the plant, originally to cost $3.5b, on hold in late September as the union went on strike at targeted assembly plants run by Ford, General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis. The contract dispute ended last week with workers at all three voting to ratify new agreements. Spok...
On Friday, Ford noted that an additional 550 employees have been asked not to report to work beginning Oct. 16, bringing the total impact of the strike layoffs to approximately 2,480 employees due to the automaker's Kentucky, Chicago, and Michigan assembly plants all being shut down. ...
By July, three of Ford’s four plants in Russia will be closed and the company will stop all production of passenger vehicles in the nation. At a meeting with around 300 employees on Friday, Mikahil Sergeev, the chairman of Ford’s local labor union in Vsevolozhsk, called for a so-...