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  • From: "Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] If you're one paycheck away... (Ford)
  • Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:30:26 -0500

this is not good news for the employees of Ford.
Ford To Idle 9 PlantsPOSTED: 1:48 pm EST November 12, 2008
UPDATED: 2:22 pm EST November 12, 2008
<http://www.clickondetroit.com/rss/>
*DEARBORN, Mich. -- *Ford Motor Company has announced they will temporary
shutdown at nine North American plants this quarter.Bloomberg News is
reporting the vehicle-assembly factories are in Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio,
Missouri, Kentucky, Ontario and Mexico.The facilities have about 23,000
production workers.

The Louisville, Ky., factory that builds Explorer sport-utility vehicles and
the St. Paul, Minn., plant that makes Rangers are set to be closed all of
December.

Two plants in Ontario, one in Oakville and one in St. Thomas will be idled
for three weeks in December.

A plant in Kansas City, Mo., will be idled for a total of three weeks during
November and December, and a factory in Avon Lake, Ohio, will close for two
weeks.

One-week shutdowns are slated at facilities in Flat Rock and Wayne, Mich.,
and Hermosillo, Mexico.

Factories that are being affected make the Mustang sports car, Econoline
vans, Edge and Flex wagons, Lincoln Town Car, Escape and Mariner small SUVs
and Fusion sedan.

Also, a truck factory in Louisville will be idled from mid-December until
early next year. Another plant in Wayne will temporarily close at the end of
this month to be retooled to make small cars starting in 2010, according to
Bloomberg News.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17965031/detail.html?rss=det&psp=news



  • [Homestead] If you're one paycheck away... (Ford), Lisa K.V. Perry, 11/13/2008

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