Ford said to discuss adding 10,000 jobs, Building Fusion in U.S.

[FLAprogressive]

Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Ford Motor Co. is discussing adding as many as 10,000 jobs in the U.S. in negotiations with the United Auto Workers union on a new four-year contract, according to three people familiar with the talks.

The job-creation discussion is part of high-level negotiations between Ford and UAW President Bob King over wages, benefits, and employment gains in the new contract and is still subject to change, said the people, who asked not to be identified revealing internal deliberations. As many as 4,000 of those jobs may come from Ford shifting production of the Fusion midsize sedan to the U.S. from Mexico, one of the people said.

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[babylonsister]

1. Great news if it happens! Rec'd. nt

[Selatius]

2. It would help if the health care situation is brought under control.

For many labor contract negotiations, there's a lot of hang-ups over the costs of providing health insurance company-wide because it has become so expensive to deal with health insurance cartels.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Ford is self-insured

They only hire insurance companies like Blue Cross to process the claims. Just like Medicare and Medicaid does.

Been this way since I hired in almost 40 years ago.

Don

[Ilsa]

3. Now there's a patriotic company! Great news! nt

[madrchsod]

4. one of the top mexican drug cartels controls that area.

i think ford deciding the real cost of having their executives and workers subject to the whims of the sinaloa cartel.

[NNN0LHI]

5. I have been talking to my union leadership about this for two years

Looks like they have been listening to its members.

Don

[MineralMan]

7. Let's hope this happens for real.

It's a good sign, I think.