{"id":226462,"date":"2022-06-13T13:40:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=226462"},"modified":"2022-06-13T13:40:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:40:27","slug":"ford-scaling-back-vehicle-production-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2022\/06\/ford-scaling-back-vehicle-production-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Scaling Back Vehicle Production This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shortages have disrupted operations across the automobile industry for nearly two years and automakers, such as the Ford Motor Co., are continuing to adjust production schedules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ford
Ford is scaling back production at four plants this summer, including its Chicago stamping and assembly plants.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ford is preparing to trim production at four big assembly plants this summer in Kansas City, Missouri, Louisville, Kentucky and Chicago, Illinois, according to a memo circulated to hourly employees at the company\u2019s Chicago Stamping plant, which feeds part to all four plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChicago stamping will be implementing a week-to-week temporary starting Monday, June 20. The temporary layoff will continue Sunday, September 11 with the plan to return to full-scale production on Monday, September 12,\u201d according to copy of the memo reviewed by thedetroitbureau.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The memo offers employees the opportunity to volunteer for temporary layoffs, which could extend through the summer months. The temporary layoff is likely to appeal to employees with school-age children who are off from school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changes help employees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ford also announced recently it was converting some 3,000 temporary employees, who in the past would have been the first employees idled by a temporary layoff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Louisville
Ford is readying to shut down its Louisville Assembly Plant due to parts shortages.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

By making the temporary employees full time under the company\u2019s contract with the United Auto Workers, the employees are eligible for some benefits. The shift also allows more senior full-time employees to take their place for voluntary layoff with unemployment compensation and supplemental unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The changes, which were praised by the UAW, also helps Ford retain experienced workers, who might have moved to other jobs during a layoff and not been inclined to return at a time when manufacturing companies are facing challenges in keeping employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, like other automakers, Ford is trying to increase production to refill depleted inventories, which have slowed sales \u2014 dropping more than 20 % across the industry during May. Ford outpaced the competition and gained market share. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the cuts outlined in the memo from Chicago Stamping could put pressure on inventories of the F-150 and Transit Vans built in Kansas City, Ford Explorers and Police Interceptors built at the Chicago plant next to the Chicago Stamping plant, and the Ford Expedition, Lincoln Navigators and F-Series Super Duty built at Kentucky Truck plant and the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair built at Ford\u2019s Louisville Assembly plant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parts shortages have Ford Motor Co. readying for production cuts as the summer months roll in. There are four plants expected to see cuts, including Kansas City, Chicago (Assembly and Stamping) and Louisville. Go to TheDetroitBureau.com for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":158999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,2648,9],"tags":[6476,364,6473,6474,6475],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226464,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226462\/revisions\/226464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226462"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=226462"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=226462"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=226462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}