Tag: Ford

BURLINGTON — The East Central Kansas Model T Ford Club meets the second Thursday of the month.  The ECKMT will meet at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, in the conference room of the Burlington Kansas…

DETROIT (AP) — A six-week United Auto Workers strike at Ford cut sales by about 100,000 vehicles and cost the company $1.7 billion in lost profits this year, the automaker said Thursday. Additional labor costs…

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors and the United Auto Workers union have reached a tentative contract agreement that could end a six-week-old strike against Detroit automakers, two people briefed on the deal said Monday. The…

DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers expanded its two-week strikes against Detroit automakers Friday, adding 7,000 workers at a Ford plant in Chicago and a General Motors assembly factory near Lansing, Michigan. Union President…

It may take a couple of years, but county commissioners took the first steps to buy a rebuilt ambulance.  Michael Burnett, Iola’s EMS director, offered a proposal that would rebuild one of the county’s older…

The United Auto Workers union is stepping up pressure on Detroit’s Big Three by threatening to expand its strike unless it sees major progress in contract negotiations by Friday. In a video statement late Monday,…

The auto workers’ strike against Detroit’s Big Three went into its fourth day on Monday with no signs of an early breakthrough and against the threat that the walkout could soon spread. Treasury Secretary Janet…

DETROIT (AP) — Nearly one in 10 of America’s unionized auto workers went on strike Friday to pressure Detroit’s three automakers into raising wages in an era of big profits and as the industry begins…

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford will increase production of six models this year, half of them electric, as the company and the auto industry start to rebound from sluggish U.S. sales in 2022. The automaker…

Sure there were shinier hot rods on display Saturday than Tom Bevard’s entry at the Farm-City Days Car Show. But few could match the unique setup of Bevard’s 1968 Volkswagen Fastback. Better described as part…