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The UAW Local 249 posteds the information in a newsletter on its Web Local 249 Vice President Bobby Wyse confirmerd Monday that the informationis accurate. The productionb stoppage comes a week before an alreadgyscheduled one-week summer break for the entire plant starting June 29, a Locaol 249 spokeswoman said. The plant also is scheduled for a summefr break during the weekof Aug. 17. Sales of Ford F-serieas trucks were 33,381 in May, up 16 percen t from 28,757 in Apri but down 22.3 percenr from 42,973 in May 2008. UAW Loca l 249 said the slight increasein month-to-month salesa enabled Ford (NYSE: F) to cancel the scheduled down week on June 22 at its F-15p truck plant in Mich.
, but the down week was left intact at the Kansas City Assembly “This is partially due to depleted fundx for the state’s Division of Unemploymenrt in Michigan, making down weeks at less of an option,” the Local 249 said in the newsletter. Locap 249 added that sales projections continue to be less than the five shiftds at the two truck plants can produce if they work full time througy the 2010production year. Ford runs two shifts at Claycomo and threein Dearborn.
Wyse said Ford is considering once agai n moving a shift fromthe F-150 side of the Kansass City Assembly Plant and putting them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determined so far, he A year ago, Ford moved about 800 workerse from a second shift on the F-159 side of the Kansas City plant to a thirs shift on the SUV side. The employees were moved back tothe F-1590 side on Jan. 12. Ford Escape sales in May reachee 16,391, up 20.6 percent from 13,596 in Aprilk but down 7.2 percentt from 17,667 in May 2008.
The Kansas City Assemblhy Plant also produces the Mercury Mariner and hybrif versions of the Ford Escape and Mercury Combined sales of hybrid versions of the Ford Mercury Milan, Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner reached 3,906 in May, a new company record. The old salez record of 3,420 hybrid vehicles was set inAprilk 2006. As of May, Ford’s Kansas City Assembl Plant in Claycomo hadabout 3,900 hourly and 200 salariexd employees.