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Ford to Add 850 Workers at F-150 Plant
Rouge plant
Ford Motor Co. says it will add 850 fulltime workers at a factory in Dearborn, Mich., that is producing the aluminum-intensive F-150 pickup truck.
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Rouge plant
Ford Motor Co. says it will add 850 fulltime workers at a factory in Dearborn, Mich., that is producing the aluminum-intensive F-150 pickup truck.
Most of the new hires will work in stamping and assembly areas at the plant, known locally as the Rouge complex. Under terms of Ford's 2011 labor agreement with the United Auto Workers union, they will start at a wage rate roughly half that of veteran workers.
Ford says it has hired more than 14,000 hourly workers, easily surpassing a pledge to add at least 12,000 such employees during the term of the current three-year contract. The UAW has said it will push for an end to the two-tier wage rate when contract talks begin next year.
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