Ford wants to Get Rid of another 4,200 Workers in N.A.

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 to a report from ‘Freep’, people who attended the closed-door, open-mouth (…) meeting, but who did not want to be identified, said that Ford made it more than clear that it would like to shrink its hourly workforce in its North American operations by that number or maybe even more under its new restructuring plan. -Continued

Freep said that Ford has trimmed its North American hourly workforce by a whopping 40 percent over the past three years leaving about 61,000 hourly workers in the United States, Canada and Mexico at the end of June. Ford’s latest buyout and early retirement offers came in July and August, but the American automaker hasn’t given out any official figures yet of how many workers accepted the offer. Inside sources state though that fewer than half of the workers that Ford expected and wanted to take the offers, signed one of the packages.

Via: Freep