The UAW Has a Tentative Agreement at Ford
Forty-one days into its strike against the Big Three automakers, the UAW has reached a tentative agreement with Ford. Union leaders are calling it a major victory, but workers will have the final say about whether to accept the deal.
United Auto Workers members and supporters on a picket line outside Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant in Illinois on September 30, 2023. (Taylor Glascock / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Six weeks after the United Auto Workers (UAW) launched a historic strike at the Big Three automakers, the union has a tentative agreement (TA) with Ford, which employs fifty-seven thousand of its members. The UAW announced the agreement last night following two days of intensive negotiations at the company’s Dearborn, Michigan, headquarters.
“For months, we’ve said that record profits means record contracts,” said UAW president Shawn Fain in a video announcing the agreement. “And UAW family, our stand-up strike has delivered. What started at three plants at midnight on September 15 has become a national movement.”
“Thanks to the power of our members on the picket line and the threat of more strikes to come, we have won the most lucrative agreement per member since Walter Reuther was president,” added UAW vice president Chuck Browning.
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