Delk v. Ford Motor Co.

CLELAND, District Judge.

These two consolidated class actions challenge the administration of the Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plan (“SUB Plan”), part of the collective bargaining agreement between Ford Motor Company and the UAW. The Appellants are or were hourly paid UAW union members employed by Ford during the late 1970s and the early 1980s, when Ford and other American automobile manufacturers were experiencing a financial crisis, in part as a result of pressure from foreign competition. The Arthur Appellants worked at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant, and the Delk Appellants worked…