LOUISVILLE, KY—Ford is planning to invest $1.3 billion in its assembly plant here to support the launch of its new F-Series Super Duty trucks. The company will build a new body shop, as well as upgrade and retool the plant to facilitate production of the trucks.
DETROIT—Workers at Ford narrowly ratified the company’s four-year labor deal with the UAW, the labor union announced late Friday. Final results showed that members voted to ratify by a 51.4 percent majority after a last-minute push by union leaders put the contract over the top at the company’s giant Rouge manufacturing complex in Dearborn, MI.
DETROIT—UAW leaders are scrambling to save a proposed contract with Ford Motor Co. after workers at two large assembly plants overwhelmingly voted against it Tuesday.
DEARBORN, MI—The UAW’s tentative agreement with Ford outlines a $9-billion commitment to its U.S. plants and commitment to create or retain 8,500 jobs over the next four years with new vehicles, engines and transmissions planned.
DEARBORN, MI—Ford Motor Co. is offering U.S. factory workers a hefty $10,000 in bonuses if they back a new labor pact reached on Friday with the UAW, an agreement that is far richer than deals cut at rivals General Motors Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles last month.
KANSAS CITY, MO—Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers avoided a strike at the automaker’s assembly plant here, after coming to a tentative agreement on a local labor contract Oct. 2.
DETROIT—UAW leaders want to shrink the gap between the pay and benefits of workers hired before and after 2007, but they are open to establishing another level of pay and benefits for supplier employees who work on site at various assembly plants, according to people familiar with the discussions.
DETROIT—UAW leaders at the Ford Division have set expectations high in a video to the membership that hammers home the point that they will not accept concessions in their next contract.
DETROIT—UAW President Dennis Williams’ concept to form a health care cooperative that would collectively negotiate provider and health insurance company contracts for about 300,000 hourly and salaried workers at the Detroit Three automakers makes a lot of sense, say experts.