Ford CEO says UAW is ‘holding a understanding hostage’ over EV battery plants

DETROIT — The United Auto Workers kinship is holding adult negotiations with Ford Motor over destiny electric car battery plants, Ford CEO Jim Farley pronounced during a press lecture Friday.

“I trust we could have reached a concede on compensate and benefits, though so distant a UAW is holding a understanding warrant over battery plants,” he pronounced after a UAW announced it would enhance strikes to dual additional open plants — one any for Ford and General Motors.

Farley criticized a kinship for a targeted strike strategy, observant he feels a actions were “premeditated” and obsequious a kinship was never meddlesome in reaching a understanding before a Sept. 14 deadline.

“We have felt from a really beginning, between all a lines of a comments, that a strange strike was intentional and that all is holding approach too long,” he said. “That tangible events are fixed before they happen. It’s been really frustrating.”

Farley’s open critique of a kinship is uncharacteristic for Ford, that is historically noticed as a many union-friendly association of a Detroit automakers.

Farley pronounced a association isn’t “at an impasse” with a kinship though warned that day “could come if this continues.”

GM CEO Mary Barra echoed many of Farley’s criticisms of Fain and a UAW’s strike strategy.

“It’s transparent that there is no genuine vigilant to get to an agreement,” she pronounced in an emailed matter Friday night. “It is transparent Shawn Fain wants to make story for himself, though it can’t be to a wreckage of a represented group members and a industry.”

UAW President Shawn Fain dismissed behind during Farley, observant a CEO hasn’t been benefaction during a negotiate list and that he’s “lying about a state of negotiations.”

“It could be since he unsuccessful to uncover adult for negotiate this week, as he has for many of a past 10 weeks. If he were there, he’d know we gave Ford a extensive offer on Monday and still haven’t listened back,” Fain pronounced in a matter Friday afternoon. “He would also know that we are distant detached on core mercantile proposals like retirement confidence and post-retirement healthcare, as good as pursuit confidence in this EV transition, that Farley himself says is going to cut 40 percent of a members’ jobs.”