Ford to lay off 1,600 union workers at Louisville Assembly Plant

[Jack Sarfatti]

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Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas greedy socialist unions.
You, aided by Joe Biden and other communists brought this on
yourselves.

Just as production at Ford factories is returning to normal after a
41-day strike, the automaker has announced layoffs at the Louisville
Assembly Plant that are scheduled to last through November, a Ford
spokeswoman confirmed to the Detroit Free Press on Saturday.

An estimated 1,600 workers are affected by the latest action, which
the company says is because of parts-related issues, according to a
labor relations memo obtained by the Free Press. The automaker
employs 3,483 workers at the plant — approximately 3,227 of them are
hourly — building the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair, according to
the Ford website.

In late October, Ford offered two weeks unpaid personal leave to
some UAW members at Louisville Assembly.

The UAW strike against Ford ended Oct. 25 when the union and
automaker reached a tentative agreement. Ford workers around the
country are now voting on the deal. Louisville Assembly never went
on strike. The Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, which builds the
highly profitable Super Duty truck, Ford Expedition and Lincoln
Navigator, was the last of three Ford factories to strike. Workers
walked out on Oct. 11.


Striking Kentucky Truck, which generates $25 billion in revenue a
year, was key to the UAW strategy to get to a deal that would end
the strike at Ford and also General Motors and Stellantis. Everyone
would notice when F-Series truck production was impacted, UAW
President Shawn Fain said in a Facebook Live presentation.

"It’s time for a fair contract at Ford and the rest of the Big
Three," he said at the time. "If they can’t understand that after
four weeks, the 8,700 workers shutting down this extremely
profitable plant will help them understand it.”

Tentative deals have since been reached at Stellantis and General
Motors.