UAW workers picket outside of Ford’s Wayne Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., on Sept. 26, 2023. The union and Ford reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday, in a major potential development in the ongoing strike against the Big Three automakers.
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UAW workers picket outside of Ford’s Wayne Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., on Sept. 26, 2023. The union and Ford reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday, in a major potential development in the ongoing strike against the Big Three automakers.
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The United Auto Workers union and Ford have reached a tentative deal on a new contract on Wednesday, nearly six weeks after the union embarked on an unprecedented strike against all of the Big Three automakers.
The agreement with Ford still needs to be reviewed by the UAW leadership at Ford, and then it would need to be ratified by a majority of union members at the automaker.
But UAW President Shawn Fain called it a “historic agreement” in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
In a statement, Fain also said the union had won major concessions.
“We won things nobody thought possible,” said Fain in a statement. “Since the strike began, Ford put 50% more on the table than when we walked out. This agreement sets us on a new path to make things right at Ford, at the Big Three, and across the auto industry.”
According to the UAW, the deal includes wage increases of 25% over…