A Just Transition for BOSK Workers

Ford Motor Company

“People believed in this company. Now, hourly workers are left with nothing.”
--Amber Schauer, Electrode

At BOSK, we’ve been told that Ford cannot step in to fix what is broken in our plant. Now that BOSK is being dissolved — and soon Ford will wholly control our plant — we are calling on the company to step up and right the wrongs in Glendale.  

Kentucky invested more than $250 million to bring this facility with good, stable jobs to our state. Then this summer, we voted to have a union at our plant and a voice in changes like those now facing our community. BOSK executives chose to use legal delays and challenges to avoid meeting with us.

Now, as BOSK terminates 1,651 jobs in Kentucky this month due to the dissolution of the joint venture – that’s more than 2,000 lost jobs when you include Akebono – all of us are now scrambling to figure out how we’re going to survive in the New Year.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

There are over 1,000 of us demanding that the company recognize our union and begin working with us to ensure a JUST TRANSITION for the hundreds of BOSK workers whose livelihoods just got upended.

We need at least 1,000 names on this to show the company we are a force of power – add your name by February 1st and talk to your coworkers, too!

To: Ford Motor Company
From: [Your Name]

We, the undersigned workers from BlueOval SK (BOSK) in Glendale, are calling on Ford to recognize our union and begin meeting with us to ensure a just transition for the 1,651 of us employed at the soon-to-be Ford plant in Glendale. We hope to hear an answer before February 14.