October 27, 2023
Via: Tech XploreFord on Thursday said the need to retore manufacturing operations outweighed the additional costs to sweeten a labor contract to end a strike that has cost it some $1.3 billion. “The important thing for us was to get back to […]
October 4, 2023
Via: Tech XploreFord reported increased US quarterly sales Wednesday, rounding out a series of upbeat performance updates in a still-robust auto market that has yet to feel significant pain from a labor strike. Ford, one of three US car giants contending with […]
Impact & Regulations, Vehicles
October 15, 2019
Via: Transport TopicsThousands of Mack Truck workers were on strike Oct. 13 at plants in three states, the first such walkout in decades. United Automobile Workers union members, many wearing red T-shirts and carrying signs, began picketing in the morning at the […]
October 11, 2019
Via: Transport TopicsGeneral Motors Co.’s chief labor negotiator suggested the United Auto Workers is dragging its feet in responding to the automaker’s latest contract offer in a show of frustration with a strike that’s lumbering toward the one-month mark. GM made a […]
Impact & Regulations, Vehicles
September 17, 2019
Via: WiredWhen United Automobile Workers members walked off the job at 33 General Motors sites around the US on Sunday morning, perhaps the most … striking detail was that they only numbered 46,000. The last time the UAW’s GM workers went […]