Last month, Ford released new figures for its Way Forward campaign estimating layoffs for 1/3 of it's total 300,000 employee workforce. Can Detroit survive such drastic measures?
2006-10-01 07:50:36 · 4 answers · asked by Jeremy 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Ford
No Detroit is not the last place that Ford is laying off people. I know this because I live in the suburbs of Detroit. It was in the news here a while ago that Ford was offering buyouts to blue color workers and to white color workers, such as engineers, etc.
Yes I believe that Detroit can survive, but the economy is hurting over here. My opinion is that if Ford wnats to survive, they got to work on their reputation on their cars. Their trucks are outstanding as they are known over the years. But their reputation in quality of cars has to improve. I sure hope they can turn this mess around.
2006-10-02 16:53:54 · answer #1 · answered by jeep59man 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ford is ramping up layoffs and closures as we all know. Makes me affraid that they will not have ability to compete glabally without buying power ( Enconomy of scale) but thats kind of got them there in the first place. too many cars public did not want or like. Also too many plants that were not flexable to build multiple units. hopefully they can change that by making cars people want. Also this restructuring may expose other management problems that they can work on when they are leaner.
2006-10-01 08:28:42 · answer #2 · answered by M B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Detroit will be the last place Ford starts to lay off from. It's the Motor City they'll try to preserve whatever they can in Detroit. Now that Bill Ford's stepped down hopefully everything will work out, and instead of keeping us laid off, or trying to buy us out they'll save our jobs. I've been sitting at home since June, I'm really ready to go back to work.
2006-10-02 02:11:20 · answer #3 · answered by NETTA M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it will be tough and they will go through hard times but they'll pull through. They have that Bowing CEO so he supposed to be the best at restructuring and cost efficency. It sucks for all those employee who are going to lose their jobs. I'll tell you one thing, just bought a Cobra and they need to start lowering the price of there top vehicles so they can make more sells.
2006-10-01 08:01:17 · answer #4 · answered by Simmy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋