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UAW expands strike as nearly 9,000 workers walk off job at Ford's largest plant (www.upi.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ford thinks they can weather this since they needed to cut output anyway.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they have been intentionally making a bad offer so the union strikes and thus production is cut while they blame it on the union to stockholders.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the play but it is has expiration date, hopefully strikers will out last these brain dead lEaDERShIP

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They just make a reasonable offer then. Most strikers cannot afford to last much longer - the union pays less than minimum wage for carrying signs (I haven't checked this strike, but that is typical)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure what this particular contract looks like but UAW is huge. Likely with a lot of money in their strike fund. I'd suspect they're getting something like 60+% of whatever their pay was.