Ford also wants a no-strike pledge from the UAW

Posted: Jun 18, 2009
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Ford Motor Company won $500 million in savings under a March 9 accord with the UAW. It is now looking to match labor-cost cuts of up to twice that amount at GM and Chrysler. Ford CEO Alan Mulally said that Ford will also ask the UAW to match a no-strike pledge similar to the one given to GM and Chrysler.

A no-strike clause in Ford’s UAW contract is “one piece of the conversation we’re having with them,” Mulally said. “We continue to talk with them on improving our competitiveness.”

The UAW has agreed not to walk out on GM and Chrysler before 2015.

- By: Omar Rana

Source: Free Press


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  • bobby

    A no strike clause? Considering no one wants a strike, all the concessions that the UAW has given, it make no sense that they (FORD) should even pursue a no strike clause, unless they are about to drop a bomb on the workers. Ford already are in the position to layoff people without having to bring them back, unless it's a temporary lay off. And who determines that? Who owns the company? A no strike clause just means the UAW would have no protection at all and essentially no contract.

  • bobby

    A no strike clause? Considering no one wants a strike, all the concessions that the UAW has given, it make no sense that they (FORD) should even pursue a no strike clause, unless they are about to drop a bomb on the workers. Ford already are in the position to layoff people without having to bring them back, unless it's a temporary lay off. And who determines that? Who owns the company? A no strike clause just means the UAW would have no protection at all and essentially no contract.