Ford slashes hourly workforce at F-150 Lightning facility, DFP reports

Ford is slashing the hourly workforce at the Dearborn factory that makes the Ford F-150 Lightning beginning next week, the Detroit Free Press’ Phoebe Wall Howard and Olivia Evans report. Of the 2,100 staff who make up three work crews at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, a third will still be on site after April 1, Ford spokeswoman Jessica Enoch told the Detroit Free Press. A crew of 700 workers will be moved to the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne while the other 700 or so staff will either accept a $50,000 retirement package or accept reassignment in southeast Michigan, the authors note.