119 Ford Jobs Go Offshore
Dewi Cooke
13 September 2007
www.drive.com.au
More than 100 Ford manufacturing jobs have been outsourced and sent overseas.
Ford told 119 workers on its upholstery trim line in Broadmeadows yesterday that they would be taken off the job and redeployed within the company following a decision to outsource to local automotive supplier Futuris.
It is understood Futuris has plans to have most of that work done in Thailand.
AMWU state secretary Steve Dargavel welcomed Ford's commitment to find alternative work for the employees but said the company had been put in an "impossible position" due to cost-cutting by its US head office.
The decision would also leave it vulnerable to any problems in its supply chain, he said.
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Ford workers leaving Broadmeadows