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

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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.