Ford Motors, Stellantis lays off workers, says dismissals are 'direct result' of UAW strikes
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Following the expanded United Auto Workers (UAW) strikes, Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis announced Thursday that they are laying off additional workers from two plants as a «direct result» of the ongoing strikes.
«This layoff is a consequence of the strike, because Sterling Axle Plant must reduce its production of parts that would normally be shipped to Kentucky Truck Plant,» a Ford Motor Co. spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
The Ford said that the 150 layoffs at the Sterling Axle plant in Michigan brought the total number of dismissals to 418 workers at the Michigan plant. There have been a total of 2,730 layoffs from Ford Motors since the beginning of the UAW strike.
An assembly line at the Ford Motor Co. Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images/File / Getty Images)
The additional workers being laid off comes just three days after the automaker announced that they were laying off 550 workers from six plants. Weeks before, on Oct. 11, the labor union ordered 8,700 Ford employees to walk off their jobs unannounced, shutting down Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville.
The company has blamed the layoffs for the continued UAW strikes, such as the walkout in Louisville, that «directly impacted operations.»
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