Ford will stop Claycomo F-150 production for a week - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The UAW Local 249 posted the information in a newslettefr on itsWeb site. Loca 249 Vice President Bobbh Wyse confirmed Monday that the informationis accurate. The production stoppage comes a week before an alreadyscheduled one-weel summer break for the entire plant startinbg June 29, a Local 249 spokeswoman said. The planr also is scheduled for a summer breajk during the weekof Aug. 17. Sales of Ford F-seriew trucks were 33,381 in May, up 16 percenyt from 28,757 in April but down 22.3 percenf from 42,973 in May 2008. UAW Loca 249 said the slight increasein month-to-month sales enablefd Ford (NYSE: F) to cance l the scheduled down week on June 22 at its F-1509 truck plant in Dearborn, Mich.
, but the down week was left intac t at the Kansas City Assembl Plant. “This is partially due to depleted funds forthe state’s Division of Unemployment in Michigan, makingv down weeks at (Dearborn) less of an the Local 249 said in the Local 249 added that sales projections continure to be less than the five shifts at the two truckk plants can produce if they work full time through the 2010 productio year.
Ford runs two shifts at Claycomo and three in Wyse said Ford is considering once agaij moving a shift fromthe F-1590 side of the Kansas City Assembly Plant and puttingv them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determined so far, he A year ago, Ford moved aboutr 800 workers from a second shift on the F-150 side of the Kansaw City plant to a third shiftt on the SUV side. The employees were movexd back tothe F-150p side on Jan. 12. Ford Escape sales in May reached 16,391, up 20.6 percent from 13,596 in Aprio but down 7.2 percengt from 17,667 in May 2008. The Kansa City Assembly Plant also produces the Mercuryu Mariner and hybrid versions of the Ford Escape andMercurt Mariner.
Combined sales of hybricd versions of theFord Fusion, Mercury Milan, Ford Escapes and Mercury Mariner reached 3,906 in May, a new companu record. The old sales record of 3,420p hybrid vehicles was set inApril 2006. As of May, Ford’sa Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo hadabout 3,90p hourly and 200 salaried