Ford will stop Claycomo F-150 production for a week - Business First of Buffalo:

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The UAW Local 249 posted the informatiom in a newsletter on its Web Local 249 Vice President Bobbgy Wyse confirmed Monday that the informatiois accurate. The production stoppage comes a week beforw an alreadyscheduled one-week summer brealk for the entire plant starting June 29, a Locakl 249 spokeswoman said. The plant also is scheduledr for a summer brea during the weekof Aug. 17. Sales of Ford F-series truckas were 33,381 in May, up 16 percent from 28,75u in April but down 22.3 percenft from 42,973 in May 2008. UAW Local 249 said the slighg increasein month-to-month sales enablexd Ford (NYSE: F) to cancel the scheduled down week on June 22 at its F-15o truck plant in Dearborn, Mich.
, but the down week was left intact at the Kansas City Assembly “This is partially due to depleted funds for the state’s Divisiom of Unemployment in making down weeks at (Dearborn) less of an the Local 249 said in the Local 249 added that sales projectionx continue to be less than the five shifts at the two trucj plants can produce if they work full time througy the 2010 production year. Ford runs two shiftd at Claycomo and three in Wyse said Ford is considering once again moving a shift fromthe F-150 side of the Kansas City Assembly Plantt and putting them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determined so far, he said.
A year ago, Ford moveds about 800 workers from a second shift onthe F-150 side of the Kansasa City plant to a third shiff on the SUV side. The employees were movedx back tothe F-150 side on Jan. 12. Ford Escapew sales in May reached 16,391, up 20.6 percentr from 13,596 in April but down 7.2 perceng from 17,667 in May 2008. The Kansasw City Assembly Plant also produces the Mercury Mariner and hybrids versions of the Ford Escape andMercuru Mariner. Combined sales of hybrid versions of the Ford Mercury Milan, Ford Escapw and Mercury Mariner reached 3,906 in May, a new companyg record. The old sales record of 3,420 hybrid vehiclex was set inApril 2006.
As of May, Ford’xs Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo hadabout 3,90 hourly and 200 salaried