Ford mum on whether EV battery plants will be included in UAW contract.
Ford chairman Bill Ford gave a short speech this morning titled “the Future of American Manufacturing,” in which he outlined his hope for a swift end to the now five-week-old autoworker strike.
There wasn’t much new in Ford’s speech; tellingly, he didn’t say whether the company was considering putting its future electric vehicle plants under the United Auto Workers’ master agreement, like GM just did. Past statements from the company’s C-suite sought to portray the union has holding negotiations “hostage” over EV factories. Instead, Ford cast the strikes as a big win for non-union automakers:
Toyota, Honda, Tesla and the others are loving this strike because they know the longer it goes on, the better it is for them. They will win and all of us will lose.
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