Time To Strike? Early Votes Indicates Ford Autoworkers Expected Far Bigger Raises

Voting by Ford’s unionized workers on a new contract has been unexpectedly negative, signaling a rejection of its hold-the-line pay provisions and raising at least the possibility that Detroit’s fragile labor peace could be disrupted by a strike.

With voting completed Thursday at plants that account for roughly 20 percent of Ford’s 41,000 members of the United Automobile Workers union, the four-year tentative contract had been rejected by about 55 percent, the union said on a Facebook page dedicated to its negotiations with the company.



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Agent009 - 10/14/2011 11:48:31 AM

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In a way I understand them.

However all you have to do is look at the real world and see they are lucky to have a job.

uaw_lax - 10/16/2011 10:01:14 AM

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That no longer is an excuse, as long as the CEO makes compensation and gets a huge wage so should the working Americans that risk their life and limbs day in and day out.

uaw_lax - 10/16/2011 10:02:29 AM

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Then maybe you should try negotiating instead of whining.