The UAW had no immediate comment Thursday.
Factory workers and UAW union members form a picket line outside the Ford Kentucky truck plant in the early morning hours Thursday in Louisville after the union announced it would expand its ongoing strike to include the facility. Photo: Luke Sharrett/Getty Images
Ford executives said they were shocked when the UAW on Wednesday walked out of talks on pension issues and collective bargaining rights associated with the company's battery plants.The Ford plant in Kentucky makes the Ford F-series Super Duty pickup, a crucial profit engine for the automaker, as well as the Ford Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator SUV.
With the plant's shutdown, "the fragile supply chain will be nudged further toward collapse," Ford chief supply chain officer Liz Door said Thursday.Galhotra said Ford is "open to moving some money around within the deal that might fit the union's needs better, but broadly speaking from an overall cost-of-the-deal perspective, yes we're there."
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