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The axe fell for 212 long-term employees at Ford's Australian operations in the state of Victoria on Friday, November 16, after six months of negotiations over redundancies.
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Ford Sacks Over 200 Workers at Australian Plant, Despite Receiving Financial Aid…
The axe fell for 212 long-term employees at Ford's Australian operations in the state of Victoria on Friday, November 16, after six months of negotiations over redundancies.
In July, Ford had said that it would make 440 workers redundant at its Geelong and Broadmeadows plants. Only 118 workers took voluntary packages offered by the Blue Oval, while the automaker managed to find jobs for 110 employees within the company.
Read more »- Official: Ford To End Australian Production In 2016, Kills Off Falcon
As we reported earlier, Ford announced today that it will cease its Australian manufacturing operations on October 16, 2016, leading to the loss of around 1,200 jobs out of a total of 3,500 people it employs at its production plants at Broadmeadows and...
- Ford Genk Workers Protest, Burn Tires And Set Of Fireworks At Company's Hq In Germany
Ford of Europe's decision to close its Genk plant in Belgium and leave some 4,300 workers without a job by the end of 2014 didn't sit well with the factory's employees. Some 250 workers from the Genk plant travelled in busses from Belgium...
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It seems like Ford has an excess of 4,200 hourly workers in its North American plants, or at least that’s what the company’s executives told the leaders of the United Auto Workers in a private meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday. According...
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