For cocktail servers and hotel housekeepers, the arrival of robotic technologies has made their jobs harder, they say. It’s part of why they’re on strike.
A tentative agreement gives the United Automobile Workers union members at the carmaker their best terms in decades. But the cost to Ford will be manageable, industry experts said.
The union told 5,000 workers on Tuesday to step down at the plant, General Motors’ largest in the United States, as it escalates its labor action at the three large U.S. automakers. A day earlier, the U.A.W. had added a Ram pickup truck plant to its strike.