Ford invests $135 million in 2 Michigan plants
Facilities in Sterling Heights, Ypsilanti Twp. to produce hybrid, electric parts.
Ford Motor Co. said Monday it will invest $135 million in two Michigan parts plants as part of a broader effort to bring production of key electric vehicle technology in-house.
The move is good news for employees at both factories, where work has declined dramatically over the past decade, and it brings the Dearborn automaker one step closer to hanging out the "Help Wanted" sign again in southeastern Michigan.
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Source: Ford invests $135 million in 2 Michigan plants
Ford Motor Co. said Monday it will invest $135 million in two Michigan parts plants as part of a broader effort to bring production of key electric vehicle technology in-house.
The move is good news for employees at both factories, where work has declined dramatically over the past decade, and it brings the Dearborn automaker one step closer to hanging out the "Help Wanted" sign again in southeastern Michigan.
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| "We're not only bringing work back here to the good old United States, but we're bringing it in-house from an outside supplier," Ford President of the Americas Mark Fields told an enthusiastic crowd at the Rawsonville Plant. "We're going to move these components to Ford's own facilities that employ our wonderful UAW workers." Combined, about 170 new jobs will be created at the two factories. When Ford begins filling those positions in 2012, the new hires "likely" will be lower-wage, entry-level employees, Fields said. Under the terms of a key provision of the automaker's 2007 contract with the United Auto Workers, Ford can pay new hires $14 an hour -- about half what veteran workers earn. |
Source: Ford invests $135 million in 2 Michigan plants
