Ford

  • In Brazil, GM Cost-Cutting Kills

    A Brazilian General Motors worker, Teodoro Antonio Pereira, was killed in late March while moving a die. Pereira was working Saturday overtime and working alone on a two-person job. To protest his death, on the next work day his co-workers shut down production for two hours for an in-plant meeting.

  • Auto Workers Approve Ford Contract after Hard Sell
    Jane Slaughter
    Oct 22 2011 - 1:34am
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    Ford workers ratified a new contract by 63 percent in mid-October. Their deal was patterned after the General Motors agreement, which passed by about 64 percent but contained smaller bonuses.

  • Auto Workers Approve Ford Contract after Hard Sell

    Ford workers ratified a new contract by 63 percent in mid-October. Though it was rich in up-front money, UAW reformers campaigned against the deal because it provides no bridge to first-tier wages for second-tier workers. First-tier wages are frozen for four more years and the hefty-looking bonuses will not come close to recovering losses from years of concessions.

  • Ford Workers Opposing Contract in Early Votes

    Early results of voting on the new Ford-United Auto Workers contract give an edge to opponents of the agreement. Reformers in the union are organizing to get the 41,000 Ford workers to again vote “no” on their national contract, as they did in October 2009.

  • UAW-Ford Workers Organizing for 'No' Vote

    Early results of voting on the new Ford-United Auto Workers contract are nearly break-even, according to Detroit newspapers. Reformers in the union are organizing to get the 41,000 Ford workers to once again vote “no” on their national contract, as they did in October 2009.

  • Low Expectations Are Met in GM-UAW Deal

    Update: For an analysis of the contract by UAW bargaining committeeperson Gary Walkowicz, click here.

    For an analysis of the contract's "lowlights" by the Autoworker Caravan reform group, click here.

  • Will Auto’s Three-Tier Wages Be on the Table?
    Nick Waun
    Jul 13 2011 - 5:13pm

    As contract talks between the United Auto Workers and the Detroit Three get under way, activists say the solidarity-sapping multi-tier wage system should be on the table. Union leaders say the companies still need help.

  • Rank and File Auto Workers to Take On Concessions

    How do rank and file auto workers create the awareness and solidarity in local unions to fight concessions in the upcoming Big Three contract talks? Auto workers met November 14 to discuss strategy.

  • UAW–Ford 'No' vote still echoes through plants

    October’s national “No” vote on concessions is still ricocheting off shop floors at Ford.

    The scene is the UAW Local 600 Ford Rouge DDMP (vehicle frame) Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Management “creatively” proposes a shift that would hurt family life even without overtime! But workers beat it back.

  • More Concessions? Ford Workers Tell UAW: ‘No!’ ‘No!’ ‘No!’
    Ron Lare
    Nov 21 2009 - 1:59am
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    “No!” “No!” “No!” It started with a simple question, “Can you hear me?” Bob King, a United Auto Workers vice president, was inside Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant, near Detroit. He was ready to tell a crowd of rank-and-file members why they should vote for more concessions to the automaker, the only U.S. car company showing a profit.