Shift Ends At Flat Rock Plant

As of today Ford's AutoAlliance plant in Flat Rock, which builds the Ford Mustang and Mazda 6 is down to one shift.

That means 900 fewer workers at the facility.  But, Ford says it's been able to successfully reassign all of them to other factories. 

Many were transferred to Chicago, which is adding staff to build the 2011 Explorer. Others were transferred to plants within the Detroit area, including Michigan Assembly, which is being updated to build the all new 2011 Ford Focus.

Sales of both vehicles made at the Flat Rock plant are up so far this year.  But, the company has been able to deal with that by speeding up the assembly line speed.

Ford, which first announced the shift elimination in February, says it has to adjust capacity of its all of its plants to the market demand.