The United Automobile Employees (UAW) union has threatened to release a strike at a key Ford truck plant in Kentucky after native negotiations have now not come to an settlement just about 5 months following the contract closing date.
In a press unencumber on Friday, the UAW threatened to position the web site’s kind of 9,000 staff on strike subsequent week, announcing 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 closing date. In consequence, the union has set a strike closing date for 12:01 a.m., Friday, February 23, if the Native 862 contract problems don’t seem to be resolved.
The plant, incessantly dubbed the Kentucky Truck Plant, produces the Ford F-250 to F-550 Tremendous Responsibility Vehicles, the Ford Expedition and the luxurious Lincoln Navigator, in line with Ford’s website online. It’s additionally identified for being Ford’s maximum successful manufacturing facility, with kind of $25 billion in keeping with yr generated in income, and it performed a key position within the UAW moves at Ford, Common Motors (GM) and Stellantis amenities closing fall.
Native contracts are part of the tentative nationwide agreements Ford got here to with the UAW in October, despite the fact that Native 862 participants had been additionally one of the most few around the “Large 3” to first of all vote in opposition to the proposed contract. Ford says the Kentucky Truck Plant hired 9,251 staff as of August, 8,700 of which have been hourly staff.
On the time of writing, Ford has now not replied 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 don’t seem to be unionized, together with Tesla, Toyota, Hyundai, and several other others. Previous this month, it was once reported {that a} majority of staff had signed union playing cards at a non-unionized Volkswagen manufacturing facility in Tennessee, the place the automaker produces the electrical ID.4.
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