UAW closing in on tentative labor agreement with Ford

If an agreement with Ford is reached, the UAW would be able to use it to model similar contract settlements with GM and Stellantis.

The United Auto Workers are close to reaching a tentative contract agreement with Ford Wednesday, a move that would be critical to ending the union's six-week-old strikes against Detroit's Big Three automakers, CBS News has learned. If a tentative deal is reached, it would still need to be approved by Ford's approximately 57,000 UAW workers.

Ford has laid off 3,167 employees because of the strike, which began last month. It's unclear if those employees would immediately return to work if an agreement was reached.Earlier this month, Ford Chairman Bill Ford called for the union to end its strike, arguing that the company his great-grandfather started in 1903 is not the enemy of UAW members.The UAW strike began when thousands of workers left their posts after their contracts with automakers expired on Sept. 14.

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