Some 8,700 workers at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant joined the expanding UAW walkouts on Oct. 11, halting production of highly profitable Super Duty pickups and large SUVs.
By the middle of the next decade, two-thirds of new-vehicle sales will be battery-electric-vehicles if current government mandates stay in place, but dealers are not willingly going along with that plan.
Strike Update Oct. 13: U.S. Production Losses Top 100,000 UnitsDespite production losses from the month-long shutdowns, and the subsequent sales losses which in a lot of cases won’t be made up due to capacity constraints, other automakers still are not likely to benefit much from crossover demand.
UAW President Shawn Fain has to be honest with his people. He can’t tell them he’s going to force the automakers to bring back the legacy costs that practically put them out of business.
