Halewood hits hauliers
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• Unions are warning that hauliers carrying car components into Ford's Halewood plant will be getting less work over the next few months and could lose the entire job by the year 2000.
Ford has decided that the Merseyside plant, which is to stop making the Escort, will cut to a single shift in April—it plans to cut 1,300 jobs.
Transport & General Workers Union national secretary Tony Woodley believes this is the beginning of the end: Our strong fear is that Ford has decided in the long run to close the plant," he says.
A fall in car production would significantly reduce components movements in and out of the plant.
Exel Logistics, which has 30 staff and 300 drivers working out if its Halewood logistics centre, says it is too soon to say how the cuts will affect it, but it is clear that a fall in car production would result in major changes. The large number of small hauliers who carry goods to the plant will be equally affected.