Next UAW Contract Negotiation: Ford
10-25-19, 08:15 PM
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Next UAW Contract Negotiation: Ford
Having finalized a four-year contract with GM, the UAW will now target Ford in separate negotiations, though using the GM contract as a basis. However, a long bitter strike or conflict with Ford is not expected at this time, as relations with Ford are generally better than with GM, Ford is not engaging in massive American plant-shutdowns like GM, and generally employs more people within American borders. The UAW, unlike with GM and Chrysler, also didn't put up any of its own money to save Ford from bankruptcy, so that's not going to be a bargaining-issue like it was with GM.
(Just an aside note on my part, though......what happened recently with the new 2020 Explorers and Lincoln Aviators coming out of Ford's Chicago plant is a public embarassment to both management and labor....to the extent that Ford is shipping those vehicles up to the Flat Rock, MI plant to make proper repairs and address the defect-level. Both labor and management, IMO, in their upcoming negotiations, will need to remember that it is the customers buying or leasing these products that help keep them both in business. Employees will need to remember that, in exchange for the pay and benefits they get, they have a responsibility to do an honest day's work and do it properly. Management has to remember that it is their job to give the employees a safe, efficient, hassle-free plant to work in, with machines, tools, and robots that will enable the employees to properly build and assemble these vehicles to the proper quality and tolerance level. So far, we don't seem to be getting much of either at the Chicago plant.)
https://www.freep.com/story/money/ca...ns/2456983001/
(Just an aside note on my part, though......what happened recently with the new 2020 Explorers and Lincoln Aviators coming out of Ford's Chicago plant is a public embarassment to both management and labor....to the extent that Ford is shipping those vehicles up to the Flat Rock, MI plant to make proper repairs and address the defect-level. Both labor and management, IMO, in their upcoming negotiations, will need to remember that it is the customers buying or leasing these products that help keep them both in business. Employees will need to remember that, in exchange for the pay and benefits they get, they have a responsibility to do an honest day's work and do it properly. Management has to remember that it is their job to give the employees a safe, efficient, hassle-free plant to work in, with machines, tools, and robots that will enable the employees to properly build and assemble these vehicles to the proper quality and tolerance level. So far, we don't seem to be getting much of either at the Chicago plant.)
https://www.freep.com/story/money/ca...ns/2456983001/
10-31-19, 05:42 PM
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Ford reaches tentative contract agreement with UAW
New four-year agreement in just days avoids what GM went through
DETROIT — Ford and the United Auto Workers union on Wednesday announced a tentative agreement for a new labor deal, allowing the No. 2 U.S. automaker to avoid a strike like the one that cost its larger rival General Motors about $3 billion in lost profit.
The union turned to Ford to negotiate a new four-year agreement after ratifying a contract last week with GM following a 40-day U.S. strike that shut down almost all of GM's North American operations.
Detailed terms of the deal were not released, but they are expected to echo those agreed to with GM, as the union typically uses the first deal as a pattern for those that follow.
"The pattern bargaining strategy has been a very effective approach for UAW and its members to secure economic gains around salary, benefits and secured over $6 billion in major product investments in American facilities, creating and retaining over 8,500 jobs for our communities," UAW Vice President Rory Gamble, head of the union's Ford department, said in a statement.
Ford confirmed the deal in a statement, but declined further comment.
UAW leaders from the various U.S. plants will meet on Friday to approve the deal, which will then be sent to the 55,000 members at Ford for final approval, a union spokesman said.
Ratification is not a sure thing, as union members at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in 2015 rejected the first version of a contract.
Ford and the UAW began talks on Monday covering larger issues such as pay raises, the use of temporary workers and healthcare insurance coverage, but the union previously said the sides had made "significant progress" addressing smaller issues.
Ford historically has had an easier relationship with the union than its Detroit rivals. Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford has described the UAW as "family" in the past and in September 2018 hailed the Dearborn, Michigan, company's relationship with its hourly workers.
"The UAW doesn't just make our workers better, it makes Ford better and stronger," Bill Ford told UAW workers last year.
Under the deal with GM, that automaker agreed to invest $9 billion in the United States, including $7.7 billion directly in its plants, with the rest going to joint ventures. It also said it would create or retain 9,000 UAW jobs. The GM contract also will provide $11,000 signing bonuses to members, and pay raises.
Under its deal, GM also will close three plants, but it left the UAW members' healthcare insurance coverage unchanged.
Once the Ford deal is ratified, the UAW will turn to Fiat Chrysler to complete its quadrennial talks with the Detroit automakers.
The union turned to Ford to negotiate a new four-year agreement after ratifying a contract last week with GM following a 40-day U.S. strike that shut down almost all of GM's North American operations.
Detailed terms of the deal were not released, but they are expected to echo those agreed to with GM, as the union typically uses the first deal as a pattern for those that follow.
"The pattern bargaining strategy has been a very effective approach for UAW and its members to secure economic gains around salary, benefits and secured over $6 billion in major product investments in American facilities, creating and retaining over 8,500 jobs for our communities," UAW Vice President Rory Gamble, head of the union's Ford department, said in a statement.
Ford confirmed the deal in a statement, but declined further comment.
UAW leaders from the various U.S. plants will meet on Friday to approve the deal, which will then be sent to the 55,000 members at Ford for final approval, a union spokesman said.
Ratification is not a sure thing, as union members at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in 2015 rejected the first version of a contract.
Ford and the UAW began talks on Monday covering larger issues such as pay raises, the use of temporary workers and healthcare insurance coverage, but the union previously said the sides had made "significant progress" addressing smaller issues.
Ford historically has had an easier relationship with the union than its Detroit rivals. Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford has described the UAW as "family" in the past and in September 2018 hailed the Dearborn, Michigan, company's relationship with its hourly workers.
"The UAW doesn't just make our workers better, it makes Ford better and stronger," Bill Ford told UAW workers last year.
Under the deal with GM, that automaker agreed to invest $9 billion in the United States, including $7.7 billion directly in its plants, with the rest going to joint ventures. It also said it would create or retain 9,000 UAW jobs. The GM contract also will provide $11,000 signing bonuses to members, and pay raises.
Under its deal, GM also will close three plants, but it left the UAW members' healthcare insurance coverage unchanged.
Once the Ford deal is ratified, the UAW will turn to Fiat Chrysler to complete its quadrennial talks with the Detroit automakers.
Ford will close an engine plant in Michigan as part of UAW deal
The 600 hourly workers at the plant will be offered jobs at a nearby transmission plant or buyouts
WASHINGTON — Ford plans to close an engine plant in Romeo, Michigan as part of a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers union for a new four-year contract, a source told Reuters Thursday.
The 600 hourly workers at the plant will be offered jobs at a nearby transmission plant or buyouts, a source said. The UAWsaid Wednesday the Ford deal "secured over $6 billion (£4.6 billion) in major product investments in American facilities, creating and retaining over 8,500 jobs for our communities."
Ford is not immediately closing the plant but will close it at a future date under the UAW agreement.
Earlier this week, Canada's largest private-sector union Unifor revealed that Ford will cut about 450 jobs at its Oakville assembly plant in Ontario, as the No. 2 U.S. carmaker discontinues production of the Ford Flex and Lincoln MKT.
Ford’s move to stop production of the crossovers comes as the company is expanding its truck and utility lineup and shedding passenger cars, except for its iconic Mustang sports car.
“We will stop building the Ford Flex at the end of November. Lincoln MKT production ended earlier this month,” said Kelli Felker, manufacturing & labor communications manager at Ford.
The company employs about 4,100 hourly workers at the Oakville plant.
Negotiations between Unifor and Ford for a new collective agreement are scheduled to take place in 2020, the union said.
“Hopefully we get some kind of announcement that Ford is going to invest some new money into Oakville and at least there’s a light at the end of the tunnel,” said Dave Thomas, president of Unifor Local 707 in Oakville.
The 600 hourly workers at the plant will be offered jobs at a nearby transmission plant or buyouts, a source said. The UAWsaid Wednesday the Ford deal "secured over $6 billion (£4.6 billion) in major product investments in American facilities, creating and retaining over 8,500 jobs for our communities."
Ford is not immediately closing the plant but will close it at a future date under the UAW agreement.
Earlier this week, Canada's largest private-sector union Unifor revealed that Ford will cut about 450 jobs at its Oakville assembly plant in Ontario, as the No. 2 U.S. carmaker discontinues production of the Ford Flex and Lincoln MKT.
Ford’s move to stop production of the crossovers comes as the company is expanding its truck and utility lineup and shedding passenger cars, except for its iconic Mustang sports car.
“We will stop building the Ford Flex at the end of November. Lincoln MKT production ended earlier this month,” said Kelli Felker, manufacturing & labor communications manager at Ford.
The company employs about 4,100 hourly workers at the Oakville plant.
Negotiations between Unifor and Ford for a new collective agreement are scheduled to take place in 2020, the union said.
“Hopefully we get some kind of announcement that Ford is going to invest some new money into Oakville and at least there’s a light at the end of the tunnel,” said Dave Thomas, president of Unifor Local 707 in Oakville.
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