Ford has signed a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers union and the automaker has begun reopening its plants, the one in Kentucky that produces its pickup trucks.
According to the union, as reported in Industry Week, the contract includes a 25% base pay increase and addresses key union priorities, adding the reinstatement of 2009 cost-of-living subsidies, a three-year wage increase, and the elimination of the wage. levels and a new right to strike in the event of plant closures.
The tentative agreement is still subject to approval through the UAW’s Ford National Council and local UAW Ford unions. However, UAW leaders said they were asking staff to return to the meeting lines in the coming days, before members vote on the deal.
Union leaders cited its strategy of slow plant closures as a factor that forced Ford to reach an agreement quickly.
“On Monday we visited our UAW family at the Sterling Heights Assembly. This is Stellantis’ largest and most successful plant,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a video address. “On Tuesday, our UAW family in Arlington Assembly rejected the call and went on strike, shutting down GM’s largest and most successful plant. Ford knew what awaited them on Wednesday if we didn’t reach a deal. It’s a checkmate.
Ford President Jim Farley said in a statement that he was “glad to have reached an agreement in principle” with the UAW.
“Ford prides itself on assembling the most automobiles in America and employing the most hourly auto painters,” Farley wrote. “Our goal is to restart the Kentucky Truck Plant, the Michigan Assembly Plant and the Chicago Assembly Plant, calling in 20,000 Ford painters. Repainting and shipping our entire line to our customers. “
The article referenced in this article originally titled “UAW and Ford Announce Tentative Agreement Ending 20,000-Person Strike” in Industry Week, a sister site of Endeavor Business Media.
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