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Ford’s Belgium Workers to Vote on Severance
Workers at the assembly plant in Genk, Belgium, that Ford Motor Co. plans to shutter late next year are scheduled to decide on Friday whether to accept a proposed severance package.
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Workers at the assembly plant in Genk, Belgium, that Ford Motor Co. plans to shutter late next year are scheduled to decide on Friday whether to accept a proposed severance package.
Genk is one of three European assembly plants Ford intends to shutter in a restructuring to stem heavy losses in the region.
The company and its three unions agreed on a pact that reportedly would pay workers the equivalent of two-and-a-half years of wages to the factory's more than 4,000 hourly employees.
About 1,400 unionized workers at four suppliers of the Genk plant IAC, Lear, SML and Syncreon also are voting on a severance agreement similar to the Ford pact.
Observers say ratification is far from certain. Since Ford announced the closing in October, strikers have at times occupied the plant, blocked supplier deliveries and prevented distribution of finished vehicles. Early this year, demonstrators blockaded labor leaders and supplier officials inside Genk's town hall for 11 hours.
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