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...Similarly, Ford replaced Jim Hackett in 2020 with Jim Farley, leading to a spike in 2020’s pay figures....
...“The structural problems facing the companies [and] the structural problems facing the union make these inevitably tense negotiations,” said Marick Masters, a labour relations professor at Michigan’s Wayne...
...The United Auto Workers is expanding its strike against General Motors and Stellantis, while sparing Ford, which it said had significantly improved its offer to workers....
...For the Ford Bronco and Ranger, both made at a striking plant in Wayne, Michigan, there is 40 and 26 days of supply, respectively....
...Notwithstanding the occasional periwig, it resembles those epic oaters once directed by the likes of John Ford or Anthony Mann, with bursts of violence that are closer to Sam Peckinpah....
...The union wrested big pay rises and other benefits from Ford, General Motors and Stellantis earlier this month after a six-week strike against the companies....
...While Ford escaped the latest escalation, workers at its assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan will stay on strike, as will workers at GM’s plant in Wentzville, Missouri and Stellantis’ plant in Toledo, Ohio...
...“[UAW’s deal] is a sign of changing times,” said Marick Masters, a labour relations professor at Michigan’s Wayne State University....
...The strike’s initial limited nature will save both sides from some of the costs, said Marick Masters, a labour relations professor at Michigan’s Wayne State University....
...Ford, Stellantis and GM have booked a combined $161bn in net income in the past decade....
...UAW member Mark Brewer, who works in a Ford assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan, approved of Biden’s visit and said it may have bolstered the union’s bargaining position....
...think that in the United States, given the legal environment here, you are going to see Tesla stand as aggressively as it possibly can,” said Marick Masters, a labour relations professor at Michigan’s Wayne...
...“The economy sucks right now,” said Avonti Fonville, a Ford worker in Wayne, Michigan, from the picket line before his union, the United Auto Workers, struck a deal with the automaker last month....
...Ford has in the last week closed a dozen facilities in North America and Europe, some for months, while Jaguar Land Rover will this week shut two of its UK factories....
...Ford’s chief executive Jim Farley said last month that EV production would take 40 per cent less labour. Still, the electric portion of the industry is adding jobs at a faster rate....
...8.30 on a Saturday morning but more than 100 people were crammed into the back room of Pizza Ranch in Winterset, a small, rural town in Iowa that lays claim to being the birthplace of the film star John Wayne...
...His chief funders were the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, the ossified fortunes of earlier millionaires....
...But though he shared conservative political inclinations with Wayne, his acting style was a far more intriguing, complex proposition....
...For example, Ford said last month it planned to open a new battery R&D facility in Michigan, which the union said would “position Ford and UAW members and families to prosper for decades to come”....
...Perhaps narratives themselves are the problem; as when the John Wayne film The Alamo recasts a Mexican victory as a moral win for the white side....
...equity / From Robert H Wade, Professor of Global Political Economy, London School of Economics, London WC2, UK Capitalism needs jobs that make workers proud / From Paul Collier and John Kay How Dodge vs Ford...
...Wayne county, which includes Detroit and has a population of just 1.7m, is fifth in the US league table for coronavirus deaths, trailing only counties that include the much larger cities of New York and...
...And men are not all like John Wayne. Men can also be seductive, they can also be beautiful and stupid.”...
...Mature is hard to swallow as the alcoholic surgeon Doc Holliday but Henry Fonda is a soulful hero, always suggesting brains under his 10-gallon hat, a refreshing change from the slur and swagger of John Wayne...
...As part of the announcement, Ford said it would move production of the Focus car from its plant in Wayne, Michigan to an existing facility in Hermosillo, Mexico, but said this would be replaced by new vehicles...
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