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The United Auto Workers is threatening another strike next week at Ford Motor Co.s largest and most profitable plant if local contract issues arent resolved, the union said in a news release Friday. Nearly 9,000 UAW members at the Kentucky Truck Plant could go on strike at 12:01 a.m. Feb. 23 if local contract issues with UAW Local 862 arent resolved by then. The plant produces Ford Super Duty pickup trucks, Ford Expedition full-size SUVs and Lincoln Navigator SUVs. The threat comes a day after Ford CEO Jim Farley suggested that the Dearborn automaker is rethinking its U.S. footprint after t