A sad day for FORD Australia

[Ryan]

Well, the decision has been made to shut down six cylinder engine manufacturing in Geelong, Victoria today. It will come into effect in 2010 with the closure of the Engine plant and most likely Iron Casting as well. 600 jobs will go from Ford.
Instead Ford Australia will import a V6 direct from the USA ( the duratec 35, or possibly the duratec 37 once it's developed). All of us who work there are gutted. We are very proud of what we make and how we go about it. The engine plant in Geelong goes back to 1926. But this is Globalisation folks, and even though what we do is world class, someone else can do it cheaper.
I can tell you first hand there were people in tears today.