Posted on 12/09/2010 11:41:43 AM PST by re_tail20
Ford is the latest U.S. automaker to announce it is hiring again.
Ford said Thursday it will add 1,800 workers at a plant in Louisville to build the Escape, the second best-selling small SUV in the U.S. after the Honda CR-V. The automaker is investing $600 million in the plant, which will be shut for a year while new equipment is installed so that Ford can build the Escape on a more fuel efficient car platform.
The plant currently employs 1,100 people on one shift and has been building the Ford Explorer mid-size SUV since 1989. Production of the Explorer is being moved to a plant in Chicago.
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“For about the 10,000th time. These Cars are “assembled” here in the US. Most of the jobs created by the Japanese and others are low-tech final assembly. “
And those low tech assembly jobs are better or worse than the final assembly GM does in Mexico?
Screw GM, I wouldn’t buy a new one unless they were giving them away.
Will we all go skipping through the park tossing daisies?
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