As the UAW’s Strike Hits Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant, Corvette Assembly Workers Pledge Their Support

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As the UAW's Strike Hits Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant, Corvette Assembly Workers Pledge Their Support

Screenshot Credit: WNKY News 40


So far, the Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant has escaped a shutdown due to the current United Autoworkers Union strike, allowing production of the 2024 Corvettes to continue.

But not all the automotive manufacturing facilities in Kentucky have been so fortunate.

Effective at 6:30 p.m. last Wednesday, the UAW unexpectedly decided to target a highly profitable SUV and truck plant for Ford, the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, where 8,700 union workers who produce Ford Super Duty pickups and the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs began participating in a stand-up strike.

The strike at KTP, Ford’s most profitable plant, will cost the company $150 million a week in profit, according to Wells Fargo analysts.

When the Corvette plant went on strike back in 2019, just as Chevy was gearing up for production of the new 2020 mid-engine Stingray, workers at the Kentucky Truck Plant helped their fellow union members in Bowling Green, bringing food and cooking meals for the Local 2164 workers.

Now, Local 2164 President Brian Ferrett says it’s time for Bowling Green to return the favor.

“We may be able to go up there and just show support by just being there and talking. And I’ve been in contact with Todd since the first day. And I said, ‘if you need anything, just holler.’ You know, we’ll be up,” Ferrett said.

Click here to watch the news report from WNKY on Bowling Green Assembly Plant members helping out their fellow Kentuckians at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant.


Source:
WNKY News 40

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11 COMMENTS

  1. It’s great to have solidarity in an area of the US that traditionally is anti worker and non union like Toyota.

  2. “The strike at KTP, Ford’s most profitable plant, will cost the company $150 million a week in profit,” they aren’t losing money because they can’t sell what they have already built. Who the hell can afford a $75-90,000 pick up.

  3. I personally think they need to break the union, let employers start a union. I ve seen it happen with electrical workers, it works great.

  5. Trade unions. The system Karl Marx and Lenin loved. Keep it up UAW the writing is on the wall.
    You’re a Yankee fetish that the South luckily never let take hold.

  6. To Rob C.
    Your statement about who can afford to buy KTP’s vehicles is answered in your own comment.
    KTP’s 150m per week profit. I’m sure 98% of the line workers can’t afford to buy the vehicles they build. They haven’t had a raise since before 2008 when they voluntarily agreed to forgo their raises to help the big 3 through those tough economic times with the agreement that when the big 3 became profitable again that the employees would be compensated. That to this day has not happened! It’s been 3 four year contracts since then and billions with a B in profits for the big 3 and UAW members are fed up.

  7. To Frank
    Break up the union.
    Do that and you will create sweat shops ran by the big 3.
    There would be no ergonomics in the workplace so corporal tunnel would run rampant through the auto industry. A 7 day work week would be the norm. Employees being terminated because of the color of their skin or religious beliefs would be allowed and never investigated along with sexual harassment and discrimination would run rampant.
    No removing the union would mean workers rights would be stripped away and force workers to work under such inhumane conditions and hope the company they work for adheres to EEOC rules and regulations which they don’t without union oversight now.

  9. To Chuck H.
    I love the south.
    My grandfather said he had to leave the south because of low wages and expensive healthcare. He would have to pay half of his salary for health insurance. He couldn’t afford to take a day off due to low pay. He didn’t have a retirement and if the job called for any special PPE he had to buy it himself.
    So like I said I love the south and I hope to retire there someday.

  10. Even if it were non union workers that build the corvette do think for one second that GM
    Would have a lower price. I don’t think so

  11. They lost my support for them by demanding a 32 hour work week but still get paid for 40. Come on, who the hell gets any benefit like that??

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