Last week, the United Auto Workers (UAW) surprised Ford by walking out of the Kentucky Truck plant in the middle of the week, halting production of the profitable Ford Super Duty, as well as the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator. This move came after the union reportedly met with Ford brass expecting an increase in the automaker’s financial offer, which it refused to do while noting that it had reached its limit in terms of what it can do in that regard while also continuing to invest in the future. Regardless, the UAW feels as if it can outlast Ford following its walkout at Kentucky, using that as leverage to get what it wants out of a new contract, as the union revealed in this new video.
“They are in it for the long haul,” the video says of UAW workers at the Kentucky Truck plant. “We are ready to fight. We have been preparing our membership for months. They have been saving money, and I’m telling you now, we could stay out here for a long time. We can outlast Ford Motor Company.”
This is notable given the fact that not only is the Kentucky Truck plant a major source of revenue for The Blue Oval, but also because it affects many other plants owned and operated by the automaker as well. In fact, as Ford Authority reported last week, this closure has thus far impacted 13 other plants, prompting thousands of layoffs – and could soon also have ripple effects at the Windsor Engine plant in Canada as well, which builds engines for the Super Duty.
In the meantime, both Ford brass and the UAW continue to trade public barbs as each works to gain leverage in these ongoing negotiations. Recently, Blue Oval chairman Bill Ford noted that the company’s non-union competition is “loving” the strike, calling for the two sides to work together to battle those automakers and burgeoning Chinese competition, but UAW President Shawn Fain was quick to counter with his own remarks on that particular topic.
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Newsflash for Fain the Pain! Ford will will make you & the sheeple cry come winter when you run out of $$$.
I don’t see “sheeple”. I see hard working people on the picket line trying to change the way compensation is received. Nobody is crying. Not now and not ever. Solidarity forever.
Hell is full of solidarity to hell with all unions the downfall of America you bastards will see can’t even get job at Macdonald
Sounds like a personal issue.
riiiiight and when the money runs out ant the BA and the other officials are sill getting paid, where does that leave the ground pounders, SOL.
I’ve spent 20 yrs in the IBEW. We have a no strike clause due to the nature of our work ” high voltage power distribution” . My grandparents retired out of the UAW. The UAW is wrong and will see their jobs disappear in the US. You are already grossly overpaid for the job that you perform. I’ve driven super duty trucks for 15 years and just ordered a 2024 f350. 100k is absolutely insane for a Ford. I’ll gladly buy the made in Mexico GMC if my order takes too long.
Now wait a minute they got there union dues if jimmy hoffa has not spent all of um
The union won’t run out of money because it is still collecting dues from all the workers even the ones on strike or laid off
IT S TIME TO GET ALL AUTO WORKERS BACK TO WORK THEY HAVE TO COME TO TERMS WITH HOW THIS IS EFFECTING FAMILIES MAY GOD BE WITH YOU ALL
Shut the North American production facilities down and move all production to Mexico. As for the UAW members…..Burger King is hiring ar $13/hour
All they’re doing is forcing them to do just that, move production out of the country. The more unreasonable the demands, the more endangered their jobs become.
It’s about survival. Let them go work at a non-union plant with no benefits and get fired the first time they F up instead of chance after chance.
Wrong. Oh and because non union shops only hire hard working and dedicated loyal employees who give 100% daily right?
Cool, what’s your point? Looking for a job at Burger King? Misery loves company.
If it’s not a good contract I plan on leaving Ford. I have had job offers in the aerospace industry for that would give me a 30 percent raise. Then the cry babies like yourself can go take my job and not make even money and complain how hard it is.
“Outlast Ford” so, in other words, they’re willing to put the company under and cost EVERYONE their job, even though UAW workers already make thousands more than non-union plant workers working at Toyota, Honda, etc, for what? To prove what? To make everyone forget about the huge corruption scandals? Oh well we must replenish the coffers, $1b in funds just isn’t enough! MOAR DUES AND MOAR DUES AND MOARRRR.
This will go down in history as the UAW cutting its own throat. They’re doing exactly what the Teamsters did to Yellow. Now they’re all out of a job. I guess they consider that a “win”.
Fain, I dare you to strike another Furd plant!
If Ford or GM cave in to these UAW thugs, my next vehicle will be from one of their out of country plants (Non UAW) or a foreign brand. Audi readily comes to mind. But never a Toyota!
UAW thugs? Hahaha!
MY STEP DAD WORKED FOR GENERAL MOTORS, IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN PLANT # 2 30 YRS.. 60,S 70,S 80,S. HE ALWAYS SAID ” EVEN A DOG KNOWS NOT TO B I T E. THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU!” DURING THOSE UAW STRIKES
,, THE WORKERS LEARNED EVEN IF THEY GOT A RAISE IT TOOK YEARS TO RECOVER LOST WAGES ,, DUE TO A STRIKE.. THE KEY HERE IS TO KEEP YER JOB,, KEEP WORKING ,, UAW GO TO ARBRITRATION & WORKERS STAY WORKING !! AS FOR MR. FAIN ” PRIDE ALWAYS GOES BEFORE THE FALL ..” GENERAL MOTORS ONCE APON A TIME HAD 3 PLANTS IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.. TODAY 2023 BUILDINGS TORN DOWN ,, CONCRETE SLABS,, GM NOT GONNA PAY PROPERTY TAXES ON VACANT LAND!! WORKERS YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELVES AND YOUR FAMILY, S GO BACK TO WORK & TELL MR. FAIN MOVE TO ARBRITRATION.. DONE DEAL..
UAW members need to stand up to fain, if one doesn’t, they will in the end lose their livelihood.
Uaw on the out Mexico on the way in ford got the money to move out the hell with the uaw prices will fall and uaw will fall there you go mr uaw Burger King won’t even hire them before this is over
What is your purpose in all of this? You sound too stupid to be management and I’ve met some really unintelligent salary workers in my career. Did you get fired from a plant? Or are you just here complaining for no reason because nobody likes you or can handle you in real life. So Johnny boy, auto worker? Management? What are you?
What district going on? GM Fords and scientists could be saving all this money to put on the contract instead of not giving them what they want or what they had. You’re losing billions of dollars for companies. Give it to the workers and they wouldn’t lose any money. So when they’re saying or losing a million dollars a day he could have used it to settle a strike give the workers what they had in ’07 anywhere. Saves a lot of money.
Sounds like my order for my f150 will take to long to receive it and the cost will be to much. I’m plenty happy with my 2018 Platinum with only 51,000 miles, so strike away! LOL
Fain met with Biden before the strike. Was a sweetheart deal made ensuring Federal funds to fill the union bank account if strike continues too long? What happens if Ford moves more operations to Mexico?
Ford’s workers in Mexico are also unionized. Moving production to Mexico will work…until that union gets emboldened to strike when they realize the bargaining power they would have; they would be assembling everything for the entire North American market.
Ordered an Explorer June 10th. Still haven’t received it. And now may never. I understand the UAW needs to get back a lot of concessions they made in 2009 to help its members. But coming up on waiting 5 months I’m considering something else.
Here is the rub, the UAW is right to ask for the amounts they are. Why? Because the average American lost 40-45% of their spending power due to inflation in the last 20 years. Here where they are wrong wages are market based and they are already being paid about double what others in manufacturing are being paid.
The union can’t outlast the company because if they do there is no company to go back to.
If i read it correctly, making 100K a year for unskilled labor while your foreign and southern auto laborers make far less sounds pretty good. Be careful what you wish for, you may get it now, but you may put yourself out of a job in the long term.
Fain is playing class warfare, and everyone is the loser
Fain is playing class warfare, and everyone is the loser. His members will all be out of a job soon.
There will be losers and it won’t be Fain or the company’s. It’s already too late.
It’s funny how the UAW demands more and more considering the fact that in the last years the build quality of the UAW plants has been crap. Don’t get surprised if Ford and GM move more operations to another country, also considering the fact that for example, Ford plants in Mexico are the best rated plants in build quality.
Fain doesn’t have the balls to shut down another Furd plant. I dare him to do it!
How about forgoing the signing bonus and the cola payout . In exchange for retirement plans for all??
Send all the plants to North Korea and other third world countries and the UAW employees too and see how good they had it in the USA! Kim Jong Un for US president 2024!
Yeah, I have been a Ford truck guy since I started driving at 15, I’m 39 now. My dad was a Ford truck guy as well, which is where I get it from. Anyways at this point in my life I finally don’t care about the union or Ford, I have always been on Ford’s side but now i honestly don’t care anymore. The reason being is that I am no longer willing to pay what they want for a truck at this point anymore, the price of a new Ford truck is utterly ridiculous. My diesel F250 has over 300k miles at this point and instead of buying a new one, I will be buying a new engine and transmission or having mine rebuilt when the time comes.
I’m part of the ford family UAW should go to work. Their are alot folks in the USA who make way less then these auto workers. So if I was Ford I would the whole Operations to Mexico. They could us the money for a better quality of life for them. My Ford Mustang Mach-E was made in Mexico I’m becoming my proud of that fact. UAW go to work