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.
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.
An additional 67 employees at the Sterling Axle Plant have been laid off due to the ongoing UAW strike against Detroit's automakers.
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.
The union has been on strike against Stellantis, Ford, and General Motors since midnight on Sept. 15.
Stellantis announced that it has pulled out of the LA Auto Show as the union continues to strike against the Detroit automakers.
As the UAW strike against the Big Three continues, Ford Motor Company announced 150 more layoffs at its Sterling Axle Plant.
Going into this strike, auto suppliers were in a fragile state, recovering from supply chain issues from the pandemic and chip shortages.
Ford Motor Company announced that 106 more employees at the Sterling Axle Plant have been laid off due to the UAW's historic strike against the Big Three automakers.
Ford is laying off about 700 workers who built the F-150 Lightning, the electric version of its best-selling pickup truck, and unlike other recent layoffs, this one has nothing to do with the ongoing strike by the United Auto Workers union.
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Ford Motor Co. executive chair Bill Ford made a rare speech on Monday and discussed the ongoing UAW strike.
Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford called on autoworkers to come together and end a monthlong strike that he says could cost the company the ability to invest in the future.
In order to apply continuous pressure on Ford, GM, and Stellantis, UAW leadership says strike expansions could now happen at any time with little notice.
No new strikes were announced today, but UAW President Shawn Fain said the union has entered a new phase and will no longer wait until Friday to announce strike expansions.
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain is set to give a bargaining update with Detroit's Big Three automakers at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 13.
Bargaining teams from the UAW and Stellantis met on Thursday. The Auburn Hills carmaker has already laid off hundreds of workers downriver at its Trenton engine plant due to the ongoing strike.
The United Auto Workers union announced Wednesday that 8,700 members at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant have been called to join the strike against Detroit's three big automakers.
Although bargaining teams from the United Auto Workers and the Big Three are actively talking, those close to the discussions said Tuesday they are nowhere near a tentative agreement.
Companies that supply auto parts to Detroit's Big Three have also laid off hundreds of employees in recent weeks.
The Anderson Economic Group estimates the first three weeks of the UAW strike have resulted in $5.5 billion in economic losses.
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An extreme heat warning remains in effect on Wednesday for southeast Michigan, with dangerously high temperatures and heat index values of 105 to 110.
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Power outages have been scattered across Metro Detroit, including in Madison Heights, Troy and Warren, as the heat wave builds.
An extreme heat warning remains in effect on Wednesday for southeast Michigan, with dangerously high temperatures and heat index values of 105 to 110.
Power outages have been scattered across Metro Detroit, including in Madison Heights, Troy and Warren, as the heat wave builds.
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The United Auto Workers announced on Wednesday a tentative agreement with American Axle in Three Rivers, Michigan, ending a 10-day strike.
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