The Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year union contract, several media outlets reported on Wednesday.
According to the proposed contract, Ford has agreed to give factory workers a 25% wage increase over the life of the agreement,That means the top pay for assembly workers would jump from $32 per hour to approximately $40 per hour, according to the newspaper.reported. Sources told the newspaper that a walkout had been planned at Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant at the Rouge, but that did not happen.
Earlier Wednesday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Witmer suggested that union negotiators and and officials with Detroit’s “Big Three” should “be locked in a room” until a tentative agreement was reached, “I really believe that it’s time for all of them to be locked in a room and not to come out until the deal is done,” Whitmer said during an event in Flint.Shooting in Georgetown leads to hours-long standoff
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