Autoworkers Just Walked Off the Job at Ford’s Most Profitable Plant
Yesterday afternoon, UAW president Shawn Fain announced a surprise strike at one of the Big Three’s most lucrative plants, mobilizing workers who, despite coping with economic hardship, have been eagerly waiting in the wings to join the picket lines.
Factory workers and UAW union members form a picket line outside the Ford Motor Co. Kentucky Truck Plant in the early morning hours on October 12, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky. (Luke Sharrett / Getty Images)
Every Friday for the past four weeks, Big Three CEOs have waited fearfully for United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain to announce which plants will strike next.
But without warning on Wednesday afternoon, the union threw a haymaker: within ten minutes the UAW would be shutting down the vast Kentucky Truck Plant.
This plant, on five hundred acres outside Louisville, is one of Ford’s most profitable — cranking out full-size SUVs and the Super Duty line of commercial trucks.
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