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UAW Reaches Tentative Deal With Ford That Could Help End Auto Strike

‘VERY POSITIVE’

Workers have been on strike against Ford, Stellantis and General Motors for six weeks.

Striking United Auto Workers (UAW) members.
REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

The United Auto Workers union has reached a tentative agreement with Ford—a deal that could help put an end to the largest strike in its history against Ford and two other large American car manufacturers: Stellantis and General Motors. If approved by UAW’s Ford workers, the agreement would increase wages by 25% (including cost-of-living adjustments that would boost the total increase to 30% over the life of the contract, according to The Washington Post). “We told Ford to pony up—and they did,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a recorded address posted on the union’s social media profiles. “We made history.”

Read it at The Washington Post