Ford executive chairman expected to address UAW strike during rare speech in Michigan

Bill Ford is likely to appeal to workers about how the company can’t afford to saddle itself with high labour costs and still be competitive with Tesla and other nonunion automakers with U.S. factories

Executive Chairman Bill Ford is scheduled to make a rare speech Monday about the future of American manufacturing with the company near an impasse with striking autoworkers.

The union began striking at targeted factories on Sept. 15, after its contracts with the companies expired. It started with one assembly plant from each company and later spread to 38 parts warehouses at GM and Jeep maker Stellantis. The UAW later added another assembly plant at GM and Ford. Fain said on Wednesday that Ford told UAW bargainers for nearly two weeks that it would make another counter-offer on economic issues. But at a meeting called by the union, the company didn’t increase its previous offer, Fain said. “Ford hasn’t gotten the message” to bargain for a fair contract, Fain said in announcing the walkout by 8,700 workers at the company’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville.

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