The United Automotive Staff (UAW) union has threatened to launch a strike at a key Ford truck plant in Kentucky after native negotiations haven’t come to an settlement almost 5 months following the contract deadline.
In a press launch on Friday, the UAW threatened to place the location’s roughly 9,000 staff on strike subsequent week, saying that Ford has failed to succeed in a neighborhood settlement with UAW Native 862 at Louisville Meeting even after greater than 5 months for the reason that contract deadline. In consequence, the union has set a strike deadline for 12:01 a.m., Friday, February 23, if the Native 862 contract points are usually not resolved.
The plant, usually dubbed the Kentucky Truck Plant, produces the Ford F-250 to F-550 Tremendous Responsibility Vehicles, the Ford Expedition and the posh Lincoln Navigator, based on Ford’s web site. It’s additionally identified for being Ford’s most worthwhile manufacturing unit, with roughly $25 billion per 12 months generated in income, and it performed a key function within the UAW strikes at Ford, Common Motors (GM) and Stellantis amenities final fall.
Native contracts are part of the tentative nationwide agreements Ford got here to with the UAW in October, although Native 862 members had been additionally a few of the few throughout the “Large Three” to initially vote in opposition to the proposed contract. Ford says the Kentucky Truck Plant employed 9,251 staff as of August, 8,700 of which had been hourly staff.
On the time of writing, Ford has not responded to Teslarati’s request for remark.
Following the agreements reached with Ford, GM and Stellantis in November, the UAW has pointed its crosshairs at different automakers with U.S. amenities that aren’t unionized, together with Tesla, Toyota, Hyundai, and a number of other others. Earlier this month, it was reported {that a} majority of staff had signed union playing cards at a non-unionized Volkswagen manufacturing unit in Tennessee, the place the automaker produces the electrical ID.4.
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