DETROIT (AP) — Workers at a Ford Motor Co. plant near Kansas City, Mo., have voted to let their union leaders call a strike against the company.

United Auto Workers members at Ford's Claycomo plant voted 3,049 to 18 in favor of authorizing a strike, local union President Jeff Wright said in an e-mail Monday.

The vote is standard procedure in contract negotiations and doesn't necessarily mean that there will be a strike.

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