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ratification of the contract was voted down by 55% of the
production workers whereas 69% of the skilled trades workers,
which includes maintenance and construction employees backed it,
the UAW Local 862 said in a Facebook post.
The union did not disclose the overall percentage of the votes
in favor or the total number of votes cast.
The vote signals that approval of the deal, which is set to
significantly raise Ford's costs, is not guaranteed. The union
and the company did not respond to Reuters requests for comment.
The automaker had last month pulled its full-year forecast due
to uncertainty over the pending ratification of the deal with
the UAW.
Union workers are voting on contracts from each of
Chrysler-owner Stellantis, GM and Ford, after the first
coordinated strike against Detroit's Big Three automakers.
Of the total votes cast at Ford's various facilities so far,
70.7% of workers have voted in favor of the deal, according to a
UAW vote tracker.
Workers at some of the company's major plants including the
Dearborn Truck plant in Michigan are yet to vote.
On Friday, union members at General Motors' Flint assembly plant
in Michigan narrowly voted against the proposed contract with
the U.S. automaker.
(Reporting by Gokul Pisharody and Shivansh Tiwary in Bengaluru;
Editing by Dhanya Ann Thoppil and Arun Koyyur)
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