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Ford insists labor deal barely bumps costs

A new contract between Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers union will raise the automaker's labor costs by less than 1 percent a year, reaching a company goal of holding the costs steady, executives said Thursday.

By Tome Krishner | Updated on October 20, 2011

DETROIT (AP) — A new contract between Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers union will raise the automaker’s labor costs by less than 1 percent a year, reaching a company goal of holding the costs steady, executives said Thursday.

The four-year deal will raise costs by $280 million this year and around $80 million per year after that, but the increases will be offset by increased factory efficiency, other wage and benefit changes, and by hiring more workers at lower wages, the executives told reporters and industry analysts.

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