Ford and UAW reach tentative agreement to end strike
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The UAW says this contract raises the starting wage by 68 percent.
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    Last month, workers at Ford, GM, and Stellantis factories walked off the job in targeted work stoppages timed just as the large automakers shift to producing more electric vehicles than ever before.

    “We are pleased to have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with the UAW covering our U.S. operations,” CEO Jim Farley said in a statement.

    Farley said now that they had a tentative deal, the company was focused on restarting its plants in Kentucky, Michigan, and Chicago, as well as calling 20,000 Ford employees back to work “and shipping our full lineup to our customers again.”

    Ford made no mention of its upcoming EV battery factories, which had become a central point of tension in the negotiations.

    As joint ventures, the battery factories will be managed by new entities created by Ford and its partner, SK On, and won’t be subject to the terms of a deal with UAW.

    EVs are assumed to need fewer workers to assemble, fueling anxiety by union members about future job losses as more of Ford’s lineup becomes battery-operated.

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