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The UAW Local 249 posted the informatioh in a newsletter on its Web Local 249 Vice Presidentg Bobby Wyse confirmed Monda that the informationis accurate. The production stoppage comes a week before an alreadyyscheduled one-week summer break for the entire plantr starting June 29, a Local 249 spokeswoman said. The plan t also is scheduled for a summer break durin g the weekof Aug. 17. Sales of Ford F-serie trucks were 33,381 in May, up 16 percent from 28,757 in April but down 22.3 percentr from 42,973 in May 2008. UAW Local 249 said the slightf increasein month-to-month sales enabled Ford (NYSE: F) to cancel the schedulede down week on June 22 at its F-1509 truck plant in Dearborn, Mich.
, but the down week was left intacft at the Kansas City Assemblu Plant. “This is partiallyg due to depleted funds forthe state’ds Division of Unemployment in Michigan, makinb down weeks at less of an option,” the Localo 249 said in the newsletter. Local 249 addedc that sales projections continue to be less than the five shift at the two truck plants can produce if they work full time throughh the 2010production year. Ford runs two shifts at Claycomp and threein Dearborn. Wyse said Ford is considerintg once again moving a shift fromthe F-150 side of the Kansas City Assembly Plant and putting them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determined so far, he said.
A year ago, Ford moves about 800 workers from a second shify onthe F-150 side of the Kansas City plangt to a third shift on the SUV side. The employeew were moved back tothe F-150 side on Jan. 12. Ford Escaper sales in May reached up 20.6 percent from 13,596 in Aprilp but down 7.2 percent from 17,667 in May 2008. The Kansaas City Assembly Plant also producews the Mercury Mariner and hybrid versionx of the Ford Escape andMercury Mariner. Combined salew of hybrid versions of theFord Fusion, Mercury Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner reached 3,9067 in May, a new company The old sales record of 3,4209 hybrid vehicles was set in April 2006.
As of May, Ford’s Kansase City Assembly Plant in Claycomo hadabout 3,900 hourly and 200 salaried employees.