CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ford Motor Co. has committed to investing $1 billion in two Greater Cleveland manufacturing plants.

It is to invest $900 million for a new product line and other improvements at the Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake and a $125 million for continuing upgrades at its Cleveland Engine Plant in Brook Park as part of a contract tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers.

The four-year contract agreement, which Ford confirmed Friday, includes $6 billion in promised investments nationwide.

It must be ratified in a vote by 55,000 UAW workers at Ford. The UAW National Ford Council voted to recommend ratification. On its website the company said “further details will be provided at a later date,” regarding the contract and the investments.

The initial agreement was announced Wednesday and the UAW released details Friday.

Bill Samples, president of UAW Local 2000 at the Avon Lake plant, said the facility hadn’t received anything approaching this level of investment since the early 1990s.

“I am very pleased about the investment,” he told The Plain Dealer. “I feel that our members are hardworking men and women, who build quality trucks, and that they deserve this scale of investment.”

He said the local’s members as well the community would benefit, from the economic spinoff created by more work coming to the plant.

“I hope that we will grow our membership (once new positions are added) and that our members will have an opportunity for life-long jobs,” Samples said.

The agreement did not detail how many new jobs could come to the Greater Cleveland plants. The Avon Lake truck plant and Cleveland Engine Plant in Brook Park each employs more than 1,700 workers, according to Ford’s web site.

According to the UAW, the Avon Lake plant will make a new product that will be added in 2023. The plant will also begin producing an all new Super Duty Chassis Cab. The Ohio Assembly Plant will continue to produce a medium truck and the E-series Cutaway and Stripped Chassis.

The Cleveland Engine plant will begin producing new machining modules. The engines currently produced there, including the 3.5L GTDI V6, will continue with upgrades. The Cleveland Engine Plant also makes the 2.0/2.3-liter EcoBoost I4 engines.

Ford and the UAW also agreed to:

The creation and retention of more than 8,500 jobs

No changes to workers’ share of health care costs

A $9,000 ratification bonus for seniority employees

$3,500 bonus for temporary workers.

Closing of an engine plant in Romeo, Michigan

$1.1 billion investment in the Wayne, Michigan, truck assembly plant that includes all-new Bronco and Ranger models.

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