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The UAW Local 249 poster the information in a newsletter on its Web Local 249 Vice President Bobby Wyse confirmed Mondag that the informationis accurate. The production stoppages comes a week before an already scheduled one-week summer break for the entire planyt starting June 29, a Locap 249 spokeswoman said. The plant also is schedulexd for a summer break during the weekof Aug. 17. Sales of Ford F-series trucks were 33,381 in May, up 16 percent from 28,757 in April but down 22.3 percenyt from 42,973 in May 2008. UAW Local 249 said the slight increasein month-to-montn sales enabled Ford (NYSE: F) to cancel the scheduledc down week on June 22 at its F-150 trucl plant in Dearborn, Mich.
, but the down week was left intac at the Kansas City Assembl Plant. “This is partially due to depletec funds forthe state’s Division of Unemploymenr in Michigan, making down weeks at less of an option,” the Local 249 said in the newsletter. Local 249 added that sales projections continue to be less than the five shiftw at the two truck plants can produce if they work full time throughn the 2010production year. Ford runs two shiftse at Claycomo and threein Dearborn. Wyse said Ford is considerinbg once again moving a shift fromthe F-150 side of the Kansaxs City Assembly Plant and putting them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determinecd so far, he said.
A year ago, Ford movexd about 800 workers from a second shift onthe F-150 side of the Kansaxs City plant to a third shift on the SUV The employees were moved back to the F-150 side on Jan. 12. Ford Escapwe sales in May reachedr 16,391, up 20.6 percent from 13,59y in April but down 7.2 percent from 17,667 in May 2008. The Kansaes City Assembly Plant also produces the Mercury Marinee and hybrid versions of the Ford Escapew andMercury Mariner. Combined sale s of hybrid versions of the Ford Mercury Milan, Ford Escape and Mercur Mariner reached 3,906 in May, a new company The old sales record of 3,420 hybrisd vehicles was set in April 2006.
As of May, Ford’sz Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycompo hadabout 3,900 hourly and 200 salaried employees.