UAW VP Chuck Browning Answers Ford CEO Farley With Facts in Free Press Op-Ed

Ford CEO Jim Farley made some strange claims recently in the Detroit Free Press. He talked about the $112,000 a year that the “average” UAW member makes at Ford. It was a number that didn’t sit right with UAW Vice President of the National Ford Department Chuck Browning, so he wrote to the Free Press  to correct the record. He noted that the inflated figure is “labor costs to the company and not what goes into a worker’s pocket.” Browning said it was the kind of math the Big Three used to mislead the public years ago during the financial crisis. But this year is different. Our bargaining team is fighting back.