Ford to lay off 1,000 workers at St. Louis-area plant

[Shadder]

ST. LOUIS -- Ford Motor Co. said Thursday it will lay off about 1,000 workers at its area assembly plant, or about 37 percent of the plant’s work force, in April.

The world’s second-largest automaker said the cuts, effective April 26, would result from the elimination of one of the Hazelwood plant’s two 10-hour shifts, Ford spokesman Ed Lewis said from the company’s headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. The plant employs 2,700 workers.

Displaced workers would be offered jobs at other Ford sites nationwide, Lewis said. Ford representatives were to spell out the layoffs with plant workers and managers Thursday.

http://www.detnews.com/2004/autosinsider/0401/29/autos-49672.htm

[Hubert Flottz]

1. The steel companies in WV are getting ready to cut 800 jobs!

But the economy is GOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

[travisleit01]

2. But... but... but...

The economy is recovering!

[KamaAina]

3. Look at that Bush* job machine go!

Go, jobs, go!

And don't stop 'til you get to the border...

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[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

4. But I just heard Bush say that the economy is excited. Im confused

Eastman Kodak is laying off more than10,000

Kraft is laying off 6,000

That's exciting

[Shadder]

5. THis is nuts

1,000 in St Louis
1,000 in Ok
750 someplace else that I did not catch the location on.

It's getting to the point where we need to start a daily layoff watch thread along the lines of the stock market watch thread just to keep track of all this ecomomic recovery.

[saigon68]

8. WE NEED a daily Layoff THREAD

I like the stock market thread. I dread the daily troops killed thread, but we need that to to remind anyone who cares about the Human toll of the immoral illegal WAR

[colonel odis]

6. this economy's hemorrhaging

weren't there something like 20,000 layoffs mentioned last week? but hey! 1,000 new jobs were added in december.

of course, bush says the economy's perking along. he doesn't read the papers, remember? his trusted inner circle tells him stuff.

god, he reminds me of governor petomaine (sp??)/mel brooks in blazing saddles.

[Lefty48197]

7. That's a lot of Missouri voters with nothing else to do on election day

but fire the President. This is starting to sound like '92 all over again.

[Fargin Ice Hole]

9. They Go from America!!!!!!! Today!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LeighAnn]

10. There goes the "thousand jobs gained" since the tax cuts. eom