Daywatch: The return to work plan for Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant
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Good morning, Chicago.
The tentative agreement between Ford and the United Auto Workers will move nearly 20,000 workers off the picket line and onto the assembly line in the coming days.
But it may take a while before all 4,613 autoworkers at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant on the city’s Southeast Side are back on the job.
“This is going to be a gradual process, it’s not going to happen overnight,” Ford spokesperson Dan Barbossa told the Tribune’s Robert Channick.
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