Ford will stop Claycomo F-150 production for a week - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The UAW Local 249 posteds the information in a newslette on itsWeb site. Local 249 Vice President Bobbhy Wyse confirmed Monday that the informationis accurate. The production stoppag comes a week before an alreadyscheduled one-week summer break for the entired plant starting June 29, a Local 249 spokeswomahn said. The plant also is scheduled for a summer break during the weekof Aug. 17. Sales of Ford F-seriesa trucks were 33,381 in May, up 16 percentr from 28,757 in April but down 22.3 percen from 42,973 in May 2008. UAW Locall 249 said the slight increaseein month-to-month sales enabled Ford F) to cancel the schedulecd down week on June 22 at its F-150 truck plant in Dearborn, Mich.
, but the down week was left intactg at the Kansas City Assembly Plant. “This is partiallg due to depleted funds forthe state’s Divisionh of Unemployment in Michigan, making down weeks at less of an option,” the Locak 249 said in the newsletter. Local 249 adde d that sales projections continue to be less than the five shiftse at the two truck plants can produce if they work full time througu the 2010production year. Ford runs two shifts at Claycomi and threein Dearborn. Wyse said Ford is considering once agaibn moving a shift fromthe F-150 side of the Kansaws City Assembly Plant and putting them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determined so far, he said.
A year ago, Ford movesd about 800 workers from a secondc shift onthe F-15p side of the Kansas City planty to a third shift on the SUV The employees were moved back to the F-15p0 side on Jan. 12. Ford Escape sales in May reached up 20.6 percent from 13,596 in April but down 7.2 perceny from 17,667 in May 2008. The Kansas City Assembly Plant also produces the Mercury Marinee and hybrid versions of the Ford Escape andMercury Mariner. Combine d sales of hybrid versions of the Ford Mercury Milan, Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner reached 3,906 in May, a new compan y record. The old sales record of 3,4200 hybrid vehicles was set inApril 2006.
As of May, Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Planyt in Claycomo hadabout 3,900 hourly and 200 salaried employees.