UAW president confirms tentative agreement with Ford, calls it a "major victory"
Fain said with the agreement, the UAW National Ford Council will vote on whether to send it to the members.
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Fain said with the agreement, the UAW National Ford Council will vote on whether to send it to the members.
On Wednesday, both companies announced that after extensive studies and analysis, they're ditching the $5 billion effort.
The last time the union struck one of the automakers, with its 2019 strike at GM, the strike lasted 40 days. Wednesday is the 41st day of the strike that started on Sep. 15.
The United Auto Workers union appears to be edging closer to a tentative contract agreement with Ford that would be critical to ending the union's 6-week-old strikes against the three major Detroit automakers, two people with knowledge of the talks said Wednesday.
Within two weeks, the United Auto Workers union has hit the most profitable plants at each of the Big Three.
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The UAW's historic strike against Detroit's Big Three automakers is in its sixth week, and economic losses have surpassed $9.3 million, according to Anderson Economic Group, LLC.
As the strike enters the six-week mark, more than 40,000 UAW members are currently striking at Detroit's Big Three automakers.
Throughout its 5-week-old strikes against Detroit's automakers, the United Auto Workers union has cast an emphatically combative stance, reflecting the style of its pugnacious leader, Shawn Fain.
In the past couple of weeks, striking workers outside the Stellantis Parts Distribution Center on Sherwood Avenue have had to deal with people yelling profanities and throwing stuff at them, but no one has brandished a weapon until now.
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said the union has received offers from two of Detroit's three major automakers in the last 24 hours, but there's still more work needing to be done with all three companies.
GM's latest offer calls for a reinstatement of the cost-of-living adjustment and a 25% compounded wage increase.
Stellantis announced that it has pulled out of the LA Auto Show as the union continues to strike against the Detroit automakers.
The union has been on strike against Stellantis, Ford, and General Motors since midnight on Sept. 15.
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