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Ford sacking people - less demand for big cars
Apr 14^th, 2011 at 5:26pm

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/ford-to-slash-jobs-from-its-broadmead...

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Ford to slash 240 jobs from its Broadmeadows and Geelong plants

UPDATE 4.10pm: TOYOTA will halve production at Altona affecting 3300 workers - as Ford axes 200 jobs from its Victorian plants.

As the heraldsun.com.au revealed today, Ford Australia will slash more than 200 jobs from its Victorian plants, due to a reduced demand for vehicles.

Toyota today confirmed the monster Japanese earthquake, tsunamis and ongoing nuclear problems were behind the impact on its Australian manufacturing arm.

Ford will slash 240 jobs from its Broadmeadows and Geelong operations.

The jobs will be shed through voluntary redundancies, which will start mid-year, the Herald Sun has learned from industry sources.

The job cuts are the result of falling sales of the flagship Falcon which has forced Ford to cut production at Broadmeadows to meet showroom demand.

Daily output at its Melbourne factory is about to be cut from 260 to 209 vehicles a day - split between Falcon and Territory.

Ford said it intends to redeploy as many as possible, with the others to be offered voluntary redundancy from the middle of July.

The news was broken to workers and union officials this morning

"We've been investigating this for the last few months. We've been looking at the large car segment and where it's going," Ford spokesperson Sinead McAlary said.

The job cuts mean Ford is moving away from its previous strategy of using 'down days' - a system also in use at Holden and Toyota - to remove excess production from its inventory.

The redundancies are the first at Ford for more than two years and will reduce the company's manufacturing workforce by 10 per cent, taking its total employment in Australia down from 3400 to 3200 people.

What have I been saying all along to numnuts badweekend and andrea pricks. Simple economics that somehow the resident economic expert andrea pricks can't seem to grasp !

People don't want BIG
cars anymore because they COST MORE to RUN !!

People are buying smaller cars and eventually they to will be to expensive to run because of the rising cost of fuel. So instead of making the next generation EV's or plugin hybrids Ford would prefer to close up shop and retrench people Sad

Is this what tax payers get for all of the corporate welfare they have given to Ford over the years Sad

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Lisa Jones Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 39047 Sydney Gender:	Re: Ford sacking people - less demand for big cars Reply #2 - Apr 14^th, 2011 at 5:43pm People don't want BIG cars anymore because they COST MORE to RUN !! - Last Nail People don't want shitful cars either. And let's face it .. Fords are exactly that.
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Ex Dame Pansi Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 24168	Re: Ford sacking people - less demand for big cars Reply #3 - Apr 14^th, 2011 at 6:03pm The petrol guzzlers will be a dime a dozen soon. The government will most likely bail Ford out, like they do, it's only taxpayers money so why not waste a couple of hundred million more.
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Reply #4 - Apr 14^th, 2011 at 7:08pm

spoken like a mob of losers rejoicing in people losing jobs. as for the big car question, australia has long been a country demanding big cars and keep in mind that australias BIGGEST seller is the commodore - a big car. the falcon problem is more of a marketing and competitive one rather he so-called demise of the 'big car' - predicted for 20 years and still not arriving.

as for me, I hope next year to replace my FPV GT with a new FPV GT 335 modified to 420 kw by Herrod.

my wife wants a small car as well. who knows, might even get a Leaf!

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Reply #5 - Apr 14^th, 2011 at 9:22pm

... wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 5:40pm:

You must be very happy that hundreds of people have lost their jobs.

you are a jerk. what did you expect ? Did you honestly think that people were going to drive around in gas guzzling cars with old technology 6 cylinder engines when petrol was heading for $2 per liter ??

Ford and Holden had the chance to modernize and chose to be complacent and ignore the warning signs. Obviously Ford and Holden are only viable here as manufactures of out dated old inefficient rubbish as long as the government keeps feeding them corporate welfare Sad

It's tantamount to buying jobs Sad

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Reply #6 - Apr 14^th, 2011 at 9:25pm

Nail.
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What have I been saying all along to numnuts badweekend and andrea pricks. Simple economics that somehow the resident economic expert andrea pricks can't seem to grasp !

People don't want BIG cars anymore because they COST MORE to RUN !!

People are buying smaller cars and eventually they to will be to expensive to run because of the rising cost of fuel. So instead of making the next generation EV's or plugin hybrids Ford would prefer to close up shop and retrench people Is this what tax payers get for all of the corporate welfare they have given to Ford over the years

Good post Nail.
Let Longweekend stick that in his pipe & smoke it.

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Reply #7 - Apr 14^th, 2011 at 9:32pm

longweekend58 wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 7:08pm:

spoken like a mob of losers rejoicing in people losing jobs. as for the big car question, australia has long been a country demanding big cars and keep in mind that australias BIGGEST seller is the commodore - a big car. the falcon problem is more of a marketing and competitive one rather he so-called demise of the 'big car' - predicted for 20 years and still not arriving.

as for me, I hope next year to replace my FPV GT with a new FPV GT 335 modified to 420 kw by Herrod.

my wife wants a small car as well. who knows, might even get a Leaf!

so how come they are downsizing you idiot ?

Just another one going the same way as the Mitsubishi 380.

You've only got yourselves to blame for misreading the market.

Like I said. Money talks and bullshit walks !! Try driving your ford shitbox through Melbourne peak hour traffic. I bet you have used half a tank left just going across the city Sad

And those Holdens are a piece of poo, They use cheap arse switches and underrated relays made in china that fall to bits. And the upholstery is cheap and nasty and the door trims are tinny sounding made on the cheap. It's hard to believe they spent a billion dollars on developing it. It's real junk quality Sad

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Reply #8 - Apr 14^th, 2011 at 9:45pm

Can we Australians get any dumber?

Why havent we got an Australian owned car manufacturing company here?

We give millions of dollars of tax payers dollars to these foreugn owned corporations every year for all sorts of things and grovel - "please stay here, please employ our workers, please".

pathetic

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Reply #9 - Apr 14^th, 2011 at 10:08pm

Foolosophy wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 9:45pm:

Can we Australians get any dumber?

Why havent we got an Australian owned car manufacturing company here?

We give millions of dollars of tax payers dollars to these foreign owned corporations every year for all sorts of things and grovel - "please stay here, please employ our workers, please".

pathetic

Well said.
When will we ever pay scientists more than lawyers & stockbrokers?
We just have the wrong mentality here.

Why aren't we the world leaders in e.g. Cars running on CNG gas?

We have plenty of CNG (compressed natural gas) for 4 cents per liter,
yet we buy petrol from overseas & it'a already over $1.50 a liter here.
Why aren't Ford & Holden given money to design a CNG car
or a battery car?

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Reply #11 - Apr 14^th, 2011 at 10:31pm

Bobby. wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 10:08pm:

Foolosophy wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 9:45pm:

Can we Australians get any dumber?

Why havent we got an Australian owned car manufacturing company here?

We give millions of dollars of tax payers dollars to these foreign owned corporations every year for all sorts of things and grovel - "please stay here, please employ our workers, please".

pathetic

Well said.
When will we ever pay scientists more than lawyers & stockbrokers?
We just have the wrong mentality here.

Why aren't we the world leaders in e.g. Cars running on CNG gas?

We have plenty of CNG (compressed natural gas) for 4 cents per liter,
yet we buy petrol from overseas & it'a already over $1.50 a liter here.
Why aren't Ford & Holden given money to design a CNG car
or a battery car?

CNG is not ony plentiful in Australia its also 50% less carbon emitting.

You can buy CNG vehicleas here and also the refuling compressor for you home.

may cost around $4,000 to set up at home but then you an fill your tank with your domestic natural gas supply

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Reply #12 - Apr 14^th, 2011 at 10:33pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 10:12pm:

Some greenie protestor this morning hit me on the head with a placard at the BP Shareholder meeting!!!

What is it with these people and their need to behave like this??

the question is "what is it with you and your kind when you advocate the permanent destruction of the environment for short term corproate profits?"

You probably RAN into the placard anyway - you should watch were you're going

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Reply #13 - Apr 14^th, 2011 at 10:40pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 10:12pm:

Some greenie protestor this morning hit me on the head with a placard at the BP Shareholder meeting!!!

What is it with these people and their need to behave like this??

OK, time to come clean: what happened in the lead-up to this placard head bopping incident!?

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Reply #14 - Apr 14^th, 2011 at 11:23pm

Foolosophy wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 10:31pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 10:08pm:

Foolosophy wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 9:45pm:

Can we Australians get any dumber?

Why havent we got an Australian owned car manufacturing company here?

We give millions of dollars of tax payers dollars to these foreign owned corporations every year for all sorts of things and grovel - "please stay here, please employ our workers, please".

pathetic

Well said.
When will we ever pay scientists more than lawyers & stockbrokers?
We just have the wrong mentality here.

Why aren't we the world leaders in e.g. Cars running on CNG gas?

We have plenty of CNG (compressed natural gas) for 4 cents per liter,
yet we buy petrol from overseas & it'a already over $1.50 a liter here.
Why aren't Ford & Holden given money to design a CNG car
or a battery car?

CNG is not ony plentiful in Australia its also 50% less carbon emitting.

You can buy CNG vehicleas here and also the refuling compressor for you home.

may cost around $4,000 to set up at home but then you an fill your tank with your domestic natural gas supply

That would be a great idea.
I wonder if it's legal &
also if it's perhaps dangerous to compress natural gas
in a suburban environment?

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