UAW members at the first Ford plant to go on strike vote overwhelmingly to approve new contract
Autoworkers at the first Ford factory to go on strike have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a tentative contract agreement reached with the company.
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Autoworkers at the first Ford factory to go on strike have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a tentative contract agreement reached with the company.
From auto production lines to Hollywood, the power of labor unions is back in the national spotlight.
From generous pay and benefits to stronger job security, the United Auto Workers union won significant concessions in tentative settlements that have ended their strikes against Detroit's automakers.
Labor experts said the UAW's hardball tactics, including a historic six-week strike, paid off. Here's what autoworkers are getting.
Britney Johnson is among the thousands of Ford Motor Co. workers who went on strike to force the automaker to improve pay for all.
A deal has been reached to end a week-long strike that had shut down a major shipping artery in the Great Lakes, halting the flow of grain and other goods from the U.S. and Canada.
Pressure in rising on General Motors as the lone holdout in a strike targeting all three big Detroit automakers after a tentative contract agreement with Jeep maker Stellantis was reached with the United Auto Workers union over the weekend.
The pact with Stellantis comes just days after the UAW struck a similar deal with Ford, leaving only GM without an agreement.
Ford has reported significant growth in the third quarter, although its financial results fell short of Wall Street estimates.
General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis are meeting with United Auto Workers bargainers to see if they can reach a contract agreement that mirrors a deal signed with crosstown rival Ford.
A strike has shut down all shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway, interrupting exports of grain and other goods from Canada and the United States via the Great Lakes to the rest the world.
With the tentative deal reached with Ford, the UAW will now be able to use it to model similar contract settlements with GM and Stellantis.
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.
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.
The union, which represents more than 8,200 Stellantis workers in Canada, will begin contract negotiations on Wednesday, with a strike deadline set at 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 29.
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.
Canadian autoworkers have voted to ratify a three-year contract agreement with General Motors.
The United Auto Workers union significantly escalated its walkout against Detroit's Three automakers by going on strike Wednesday at the largest and most profitable Ford plant in the world.
Detroit's three automakers have laid off roughly 4,800 workers at factories that are not among the plants that have been hit by the United Auto Workers strikes, which have lasted for nearly four weeks.
Companies that supply auto parts to Detroit's Big Three have also laid off hundreds of employees in recent weeks.
Electric vehicles and their potential impact on job security have become central to negotiations in the U.S. autoworkers strike.
Union workers at Mack Trucks are on strike after voting down a tentative five-year contract agreement that negotiators had reached with the company.
The United Auto Workers union says members at Mack Trucks have voted down a tentative five-year contract agreement reached with the company and plan to strike at 7 a.m. Monday.
United Auto Workers strike is costing the automotive industry billions of dollars, but negotiations may have turned a corner.
Among the many changes being sought by striking United Auto Workers is an end to a system that pays workers much different wages for doing the same job.
