by Justin | Jan 5, 2021 | Auto News, Collective Bargaining, Ford
Ford Motor Co. is planning to convert nearly 400 full-time factory workers from temporary to permanent status in January, and the Free Press has learned there are hundreds more such hires planned in 2021. Read the article here.
by Justin | Dec 24, 2020 | Auto News, Ford, UAW Local 387
In addition to thousands of early production 2021 Ford F-150 pickups being stockpiled in parking lots around Detroit Metro Airport for a quality review, a steady stream of the new vehicles is being delivered to a site near the Flat Rock Assembly Plant for installation...
by Justin | Dec 4, 2020 | COVID-19, Ford, UAW Local 862
An estimated 20,000 active and retired Ford factory workers, their immediate family members and surviving spouses will have the option to get coronavirus tests at a large UAW hall in Louisville, Kentucky, in coming days after an executive board voted unanimously to...
by Justin | Nov 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Ford
Ford Motor Co said on Tuesday it has ordered a dozen ultra-cold freezers that can safely store Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine, a move aimed at ensuring the U.S. automaker’s workers have access to vaccines when they are rolled out nationally. Read the article...
by Justin | Oct 27, 2020 | Ford, Labor History, UAW History
The Ford Hunger March — also known as the Ford Massacre — served as a turning point in the story of organized labor in Detroit and across the U.S. The incident helped catalyze the creation of the United Auto Workers. But it was scarcely memorialized locally. For...
by Justin | Oct 24, 2020 | Dodge, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), FCA, Ford, General Motors
Auto work is typically remembered as one of the best industrial jobs a worker could get in postwar America. Less remembered, however, is how absolutely brutal and violent life on the auto factory floor was — and still is. Read the article here.
