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More Ford layoffs start as Executive Chair Bill Ford calls on autoworkers to end strike

In a rare speech during contract talks in the company’s hometown of Dearborn, Michigan, Ford said high labor costs could limit the company’s ability to make future investments.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bill Ford Says Kentucky UAW Strike "Harms Tens Of Thousands Of Americans"

He called on the union to end the "acrimonious" negotiations.

Motor1

Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford gets involved in union contract talks in an uncommon presentation

Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford is scheduled to make a rare speech about the future of American manufacturing with the company near an impasse with striking autoworkers

The Independent UK

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UAW announces new approach in its historic strike against the Big Three automakers

A month after auto workers first walked off the job, UAW President Shawn Fain said the union will be ready to call for an expansion of its strike against Big Three automakers at any time.

WEKU

New Strikes Could Happen "At Any Time" Now, UAW Says

UAW President Shawn Fain says the union is entering a new, more aggressive phase of the strike.

Motor1

UAW threatens to escalate strike as negotiations with automakers stall

The autoworker union president, Shawn Fain, says the ‘stand-up’ strike will intensify unless the big three car companies ‘pony up’

The Guardian - US

UAW breaks pattern of adding factories to strikes on Fridays, says more plants could come any time

The United Auto Workers union isn’t adding any factories to those that are now on strike, but its president says more walkouts could begin at any moment

The Independent UK

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UAW Strike Halts Ford F-Series Super Duty Production At Company's Largest Plant

The strike puts 8,700 UAW workers on the picket line.

Motor1

Auto workers escalate strike, walking out at Ford's largest factory and threatening Stellantis

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

The Independent UK

Autoworkers escalate strike as 8,700 workers walk out at a Ford Kentucky plant

The surprise move took down the largest and most profitable Ford plant in the world. The sprawling factory makes pricey heavy-duty F-Series pickup trucks and large Ford and Lincoln SUVs.

WEKU

Auto workers escalate strike as 8,700 workers walk out at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville

On Wednesday evening, the UAW shut down the largest and most profitable Ford plant in the world, where profitable large pickups and SUVs are built.

Chicago Sun-Times

Detroit automakers and union leaders spar over 4,800 layoffs at non-striking factories

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

The Independent UK

UAW Workers At Mack Trucks Go On Strike Amid Progress At Detroit Automakers

4,000 workers of the trucking company owned by Volvo Group are on picket lines in three states.

Motor1

Workers at Mack Trucks reject tentative contract deal and will go on strike early Monday

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

The Independent UK

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Chicago Sun-Times

‘No deal? No wheels’ strikers chant at Far South Side UAW rally

Mayor Brandon Johnson also joined the rally, asking the cheering crowd “Is this a union town, or what?”

WEKU

UAW President Shawn Fain lambasts auto execs while wearing 'EAT THE RICH' T-shirt

The union's strike against the Detroit Three continues, but the UAW's president says that GM has now committed for future battery plant workers to be covered by the same contract as other workers.

Al Jazeera

US auto workers halt strike expansion after concessions on EV battery plant

UAW President Fain praises breakthrough, with implications for labour arrangements undergirding green transition.

The Guardian - US

Biden pledges to work with next House speaker as Jim Jordan welcomes Trump endorsement – as it happened

President declines to comment on Trump-endorsed Jordan speakership bid but adds ‘some … could be easier to work with than others’

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Chicago Sun-Times

UAW pauses strike expansion after GM makes battery plant concession

General Motors agreed to bring electric vehicle battery plants into the United Auto Workers’ national contract, essentially assuring that they will be unionized.

InsideEVs

GM's Battery Plants Will Be Covered By UAW Agreement In "Major Breakthrough"

The move to unionize battery workers also averted a strike on GM's lucrative Arlington truck factory.

The Guardian - US

‘Our strike is working’: UAW announces progress in talks with car giants

Shawn Fain says General Motors has made key concession on battery manufacture and does not announce additional strikes

The Conversation

Why the UAW union's tough bargaining strategy is working

The United Auto Workers union isn’t backing down as it bargains for more compensation and better benefits in its new contracts with General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. Under the deft leadership of its president, Shawn Fain, and other officials elected in March 2023, the union has thrown the three companies…

The Independent UK

Thousands of US workers are on strike today. Here's a rundown of major work stoppages happening now

It’s been a big year for labor organizing in the U.S. And from auto production lines to Hollywood, all eyes are on strikes taking the world of work by storm

The Independent UK

Auto worker strike highlights disparities between temporary and permanent employees

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

The Independent UK

Striking auto workers and Detroit companies appear to make progress in contract talks

Meaningful progress has been made in the negotiations between the striking United Auto Workers union and Detroit’s three auto companies

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