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Ford to cut 640 jobs November 3, 2006 - 1:44PM Ford Australia will axe 640 jobs from Victoria as declining sales forces it to cut its daily new car production. The car maker, which employs about 5500 workers at its Broadmeadows and Geelong plants, said the job cuts would be voluntary and come from across the business. Most of the redundancies would take place by Christmas. Ford last month announced it was cutting its daily new car production from 450 to 360 by November 20. The company blamed rising petrol prices and increased global competition for the decline in demand for large cars. Spokeswoman Sinead McAlary said workers would receive a competitive industry standard redundancy package that had been negotiated with unions. She would not say how much the redundancies would cost Ford. She also would not say if the company had a target for how many workers from each division would go. Ms McAlary said the company was committed to its Australian operations, with its executive chairman, William Ford jnr, last week dedicating a new research and development centre in Geelong. "We are still investing in Australia, we are still planning to build the next Falcon," she said. "It is simply about making our production rates and the size of our business match what is current market demand." Australian Manufacturing Workers Union state secretary Dave Oliver said the job losses were the latest in a long line of manufacturing problems that would only get worse. "These 640 job losses at Ford are another devastating blow to manufacturing in this country," he said. He called on the Howard Government to work with the states, businesses and unions to save the manufacturing industry. Ford last month reported its worst financial results in more than 14 years, posting a loss of $US5.8 billion ($A7.7 billion) for the third quarter. |
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It wouldnt be long until GM Australia may face it or other manufactor since we are losing more jobs and completition for jobs get harder and harder due to less experience workers are here
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It's a sign of the times.
Things will pick up. Just a case of being patient, as well as hopeful. |
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just saw it on the news, over 600 hundred jobs lost at the geelong and campbelfield ford factories.
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its a shame but its a cut throat industry and Ford seem to be on the back foot at the moment. Toyota and Holden have just released decent product and it is expected that the dated falcon will struggle.
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Understand your sentiments, gadgetman - but there's two sides to trade restrictions. Not everyone wants a Commdore/Falcon/Camry/380. No one should be forced into supporting a local manufacturer - these companies should be able to present a manufacturing solution that can stand on its own two legs.
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It's a shame this has happen.
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This happens in the car industry and FOA need to do this to survive. Hopefully with the LHD/RHD grant that was given to Ford earlier in the year will allow they to find an export market overseas and build more cars. |
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We have a wonderful government that stands back and does nothing dont we?!
This really makes my blood boil, i actually felt for the poor buggers that have been there for 30+ years, and are just thrown out on there ****'s. I Think all this really boils down to is the importation of parts etc from china etc at a quarter of the price and making companies on our land shut up shop because they simply cant compete. The flow on has a huge impact. Being in the transport industry we feel it BIG TIME. This year has been one of the slowest years in the last 10 years. And this year.. how many BIG Companies have closed there doors, or sacked half their work force? I dont know what could be done, but something HAS to be done to save our jobs. |
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Also the employees arn't being told to leave but are getting enticed with a very nice offer if they want and if Ford want them to leave. |
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We really play on this 'poor buggers' thing dont we? If you'd even bothered to read the article, you would have seen that the offer would be made for voluntary redundancies. Bet your bottom dollar that plenty of these 'poor buggers' will happily put their hand up, receive a nice package and move on with their life. Im sure you would join me in wishing them all the best - as i would for anyone who is moving on. And just to make sure that im not taking you out of context, i point to this bell ringer: "and are just being thrown out on their *****" This equates to voluntary redundancies? I think what this really "boils down to" is that people are realising they dont need to purchase a vehicle with a large 6/8 cylinder engine nor do they want to support the additional cost of fuelling/registering/insuring such vehicles. This is supported by the sales data. The fact that you sit there and insist "the government do something" in the same breath as admitting you dont know what to do is pretty poor mate. Here's a solution: In conjunction with the union and the workforce, let a few hundred people go now and prolong the longevity of the 4900 employees that will remain. Hang on, i think someone's already thought of that. Or do you prefer the American model where everyone pretends it's all OK and we wait for the 'insolvency' word to start getting thrown around? Are we seriously going to blame the government every time someone loses a job in this country? What about the millions and millions and millions that federal and state governments have donated to the industry over the many many years? Yeah... they stand back and do nothing, huh? Hate to break it to you, but fluctuating workforce sizes have been around since the industrial revolution. They're as much a part of this funny thing called life as any positive aspect you care to think of.
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I'm no fan of Howard but he has delivered, in economic terms 6% is zero unemployment. There's a huge lack of skilled and even semi-skilled workers in this country. If you want to blame someone for job reductions blame OPEC
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Things will only "get better" when all the cheap (read slave) labour countries are exhausted. Simply put, when India and China become too expensive, companies will move on to Africa. And then probably Australia, because by then we will be a third world labour rate country with sweat shops.
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Watching channel 10 news tonight on the Job cuts, there footage showed Ford assembly line workers putting AU Falcons together.....
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And I posted in another thread ages ago...soon our Fords will be made in China.
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Not all that easy when the minimum wage, superannuation, workers comp, etc are SET at the levels they are. Everyone likes to pay a low price for imported goods, but what is the real saving, or cost, to our country. Just my 2c.
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