Ford UAW members await details of game-changing tentative agreement
The UAW National Ford Council will be in Detroit on Sunday.
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The UAW National Ford Council will be in Detroit on Sunday.
Marick Masters, professor of management at Wayne State, looks at the tentative agreement that was reached between the UAW and Ford.
Jeff Gilbert, auto reporter for WWJ Newsradio 950, breaks down Ford's tentative agreement with the UAW.
Former UAW President Bob King discusses the new tentative agreement reached between the UAW and Ford.
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 picket line outside of the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne dissolved Wednesday as workers learned their strike was over after 41 days.
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.
On Wednesday, both companies announced that after extensive studies and analysis, they're ditching the $5 billion effort.
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.
Stellantis announced that 525 additional employees have been temporarily laid off due to the UAW's decision to strike another one of its plants this week.
The UAW has expanded its strike again, and called 5,000 members at one of General Motors' most profitable plants to join the strike.
General Motors is the first Michigan automaker to report earnings since thousands of autoworkers went on strike.
Some striking UAW workers are feeling the financial strain of weeks without work. For those who can't get by on the $ 500-a-week strike pay, many are turning to loans specifically made for striking workers.
As the strike enters the six-week mark, more than 40,000 UAW members are currently striking at Detroit's Big Three automakers.
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.
An additional 67 employees at the Sterling Axle Plant have been laid off due to the ongoing UAW strike against Detroit's 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.
A man who flashed a gun at picketers Thursday night is no longer employed with his former trucking company.
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.
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.
