United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, center, visits putting UAW Local 551 staff outdoors a Ford meeting heart on South Burley Avenue on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Chicago.
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DETROIT – United Auto Workers has unexpectedly expanded its U.S. strikes at Ford Motor to a extremely worthwhile SUV and truck plant for the automaker in Kentucky.
The strike was efficient at 6:30 p.m. at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant, the place the automaker produces Ford Super Duty pickups in addition to the Ford Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator. The facility employs 8,700 staff.
The union’s resolution to strike the plant, which is Ford’s largest in phrases of employment and income, is a major escalation in its focused strikes in addition to a change in technique, which has beforehand included UAW President Shawn Fain publicly saying the strike targets earlier than the work stoppages happen.
Ford mentioned the “resolution by the UAW to name a strike at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant is grossly irresponsible however unsurprising given the union management’s said technique of holding the Detroit 3 wounded for months via ‘reputational harm’ and ‘industrial chaos.’ ”
The latter a part of the assertion refers to leaked private messages final month from UAW communications director Jonah Furman discussing the union’s public posturing of points and focused strikes as inflicting “recurring reputations harm and operational chaos” to the automakers.
The messages did not align with UAW President Shawn Fain’s public statements that the union has been negotiating in good religion and is obtainable “24/7 to cut price a deal.”
The automakers have argued the messages in addition to the union’s actions present UAW negotiators had been by no means really in reaching a cope with the Detroit automakers.
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