CategoryCars & Concepts

Workers at key Ford plant in Michigan vote to ratify UAW pact

Ford's Michigan assembly plant in Wayne, Mich., which has about 2,700 workers, is the first big factory to vote on the deal, which includes an $8,500 signing bonus and the first raises in about a decade for veteran workers and a higher wage scale for most workers hired since 2007. (BLOOMBERG)
November 13, 2015 05:00 AM

DETROIT -- Workers at a Ford Motor Co. plant that lost 700 jobs this year but is now in line to build a new pickup and SUV voted overwhelmingly in favor of the UAW’s tentative contract with the automaker.

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