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Following the extended strikes by the United Auto Workers (UAW), 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 result of the strike as the Sterling Axle Plant must reduce its production of parts that would normally be supplied to the Kentucky Truck Plant,” a Ford Motor Co. spokesman told Fox News Digital.
Ford said the 150 layoffs at the Sterling Axle plant in Michigan brought the total number of layoffs to 418 workers at the Michigan plant. There have been a total of 2,730 layoffs at Ford Motors since the UAW strike began.
An assembly line at the Ford Motor Co. Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images/File / Getty Images)
The additional layoffs come just three days after the automaker announced it would lay off 550 workers from six plants. Weeks earlier, on October 11, the union ordered 8,700 Ford employees to resign without notice, closing Ford’s Kentucky truck plant in Louisville.
The company blamed the layoffs on the UAW’s ongoing strikes, such as the Louisville strike, which have “directly impacted operations.”
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“Our manufacturing system is highly interconnected, meaning the UAW’s targeted strike strategy has knock-on effects on plants not directly affected by a work stoppage,” a Ford spokesman said. “In this case, the strike at the Kentucky Truck Plant had a direct impact on some operations at the Sterling Axle Plant.”
A Ford sign at a dealership in Springfield, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke/File / AP Newsroom)
Likewise, Stellantis announced that they would be laying off an additional 100 workers due to the UAW’s recent strike at the Toledo Assembly Complex in Ohio.
“The UAW’s decision to strike at the Toledo Assembly Complex (TAC) has now resulted in additional temporary layoffs,” the automaker announced in a press release.
The TAC supplies parts for the Jeep Wrangler, Jeep Wrangler 4xe and Jeep Gladiator, Stellantis said.
The layoffs will take effect Oct. 23 and bring the total number of affected plant employees to 170, the automaker said.
A United Auto Workers union member holds a sign in front of the Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan. (Portal/Rebecca Cook/File/Portal Photos)
The strike, which began on September 15, has led to thousands of layoffs at Detroit’s three major automakers – Ford, General Motors and Stellantis – as the strike continues without an agreed solution.
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The total number of strike-related layoffs at GM, the company most affected by the strike, is now around 6,000. Ford has laid off a total of 2,730 workers since the strike began, and Stellantis has laid off 1,520 workers.
Workers demonstrate in front of a Ford assembly plant in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/Getty Images)
Another 16,600 Ford employees are on strike at three assembly plants, including Kentucky Truck, the company’s largest plant worldwide.
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UAW President Shawn Fain says the strike will continue until agreements are reached.
Stellantis and the UAW did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Portal contributed to this report.