According to the UAW, Ford has failed to reach a local agreement with Local 600 over a year after the contract deadline. As a result, UAW President Shawn Fain authorized UAW Vice President Chuck Browning to set a strike deadline for 11:59 p.m. on September 25.

United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain said Tuesday the union plans to hold strike authorization votes against Stellantis because the automaker is failing to live up to guarantees it made in the 2023 labor deal it reached with the union at the conclusion of a six-week strike.

The United Auto Workers union is eying multiple U.S. strikes against French-Italian carmaker Stellantis about a year after a national walkout cost the Detroit Three automakers billions of dollars and idled 50,