"Ford offers incentive packages to cut US staff " - bbc

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Carmaker Ford has offered incentive packages to all of its 41,000 US hourly workers in a bid to reduce its factory costs.

The company has more workers than it needs to produce cars at current sales levels, said spokesman Mark Truby.
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Ford employed 89,000 people in the US at the start of 2009, but that number has dropped to 80,200 through buyouts and layoffs.

The buyout package, offered to workers with at least a year of service, includes $50,000 (£31,167) cash and either a $25,000 voucher to buy a Ford vehicle or $20,000 extra cash.


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[Vinnie From Indy]

1. offering 50k cash to get away from US workers is telling

These jobs are not likely to EVER come back. Corproate America can't shed US jobs fast enough. They have all learned that the name of the game in today's world is to find and exploit the absolute cheapest labor force anywhere on the planet it may be found. Ford and the others have ZERO allegiance to America or Americans. That is of course unless they need to get bailed out. Of course, Ford did not take a dip in that pool.