Ford confirmed today that so far this year about 38,000 of its UAW-represented hourly workers have accepted package offerings to voluntary leave the company. The open enrollment period that began in October offered eight different voluntary buyout packages to all of Ford’s UAW-represented employees.
The figure represents nearly half of Ford ’s factory workforce. It includes approximately 30,000 buyout offers preliminarily accepted during the recent system-wide open enrollment period that concluded this week and about 8,000 acceptances received earlier in 2006 during targeted plant-by-plant buyout offerings to Ford and ACH employees.
Hourly employees who accepted buyout packages during the recent enrollment period will begin to leave the company in January 2007 and through the course of the year until all separations are completed by Sept. 1, 2007.
