DETROIT (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers union and Ford Motor Co . (N:F)
have averted a strike at a factory in Kansas City, Mo. that builds the
company's best-selling F-150 pickup trucks, the union said in a Facebook
(NASDAQ:FB) post late on Friday.
The
post by UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles, the union's top negotiator at
Ford, didn't provide details of what he called a "tentative agreement
on their local contract."
Settles said last week the Union local
in Kansas City, representing about 7,000 workers, had been unable to
resolve differences over seniority, staffing and safety issues.
Ford
has made about $1.1 billion investments in the Kansas City facility to
expand production of pickups and commercial vans. The F-150 is a
mainstay of Ford's global profits.
