Ford F-150 output pinched by frame shortage, workers say - Automotive News
DETROIT -- Production of the redesigned, aluminum-bodied Ford F-150 has been slowed by a shortage of frames from a supplier’s plant in Kentucky, according to workers and a UAW official. They said Ford has canceled some planned overtime at the two plants that build the pickup and sent workers there home early multiple times in the past few months. Frames continue to hold both truck plants back from running overtime days on the weekend,” Todd Hillyard, the bargaining chairman of Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant with UAW Local 249, wrote on Facebook today. ’s structural products business in 2010. A worker at Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant in Michigan, who didn’t want to be identified discussing internal business, said the problem has prevented the plant from running any “Super Sunday” shifts, when... The worker said a team of Ford employees is at the Metalsa plant to help resolve the issue. Ford is canceling Saturday’s overtime shift at the Kansas City plant because it doesn’t have enough Metalsa-supplied frames, Hillyard wrote. Hillyard wrote in an April 1 post that both F-150 plants “have had a few shifts canceled due to a frame supplier not being able to keep up. ” In that post, he said Ford had told the UAW that it hoped “to have the issue resolved after the Easter... Source: www.autonews.com
