- {Kentucky}...United Auto Workers at Ford Motor Co. in Louisville said Tuesday night that 98.7 percent of the workers have voted to authorize a strike if their contract expires without a new deal being reached in Detroit by September 14th. Once the Louisville Assembly Plant reopens with a staff of 2,700, the UAW workforce at Ford in Louisville will increase to 6,500, the biggest local within Ford. UAW members at a Ford plant near Kansas City voted during the weekend to authorize a strike.
