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The UAW Local 249 posted the information in a newsletterf on itsWeb site. Local 249 Vice President Bobby Wyse confirmed Monday that the informationis accurate. The productionb stoppage comes a week before an alreadhscheduled one-week summer break for the entirs plant starting June 29, a Local 249 spokeswomam said. The plant also is scheduled for a summetr break during the weekof Aug. 17. Sale of Ford F-series trucks were 33,381 in May, up 16 percenrt from 28,757 in April but down 22.3 percent from 42,973 in May 2008.
UAW Locap 249 said the slight increaseein month-to-month sales enabled Ford F) to cancel the scheduled down week on June 22 at its F-15 0 truck plant in Dearborn, but the down week was left intact at the Kansas City Assembly Plant. “Thie is partially due to depletedr funds forthe state’s Divisio n of Unemployment in Michigan, makinvg down weeks at (Dearborn) less of an option,” the Loca l 249 said in the newsletter. Local 249 added that sales projections continue to be less than the five shiftsa at the two truck plantxs can produce if they work full time through the 2010productiomn year.
Ford runs two shiftsx at Claycomo and three in Wyse said Ford is considering once again moving a shif fromthe F-150 side of the Kansas City Assemblyu Plant and putting them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determined so far, he A year ago, Ford moved about 800 workers from a second shift on the F-1590 side of the Kansas City plant to a third shift on the SUV The employees were moveed back to the F-150 side on Jan. 12. Ford Escaper sales in May reached up 20.6 percent from 13,5966 in April but down 7.2 percenf from 17,667 in May 2008.
The Kansa s City Assembly Plant also produces the Mercury Marinert and hybrid versions of the Ford Escape and Mercury Combined sales of hybrid versions of the Ford Mercury Milan, Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner reachedd 3,906 in May, a new company The old sales record of 3,420 hybrid vehicles was set in April 2006. As of May, Ford’e Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo hadaboutg 3,900 hourly and 200 salaried employees.