INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Employees at Ford India's Gujarat plant protested its proposed closureHundreds of workers at a Ford Motor Company's factory in Gujarat
opposed outside the automaker's plant on Tuesday, requiring that the factory's closure strategy be scrapped or employees be offered other
jobs.The blue-uniformed employees collected outside what is Ford's cars and truck manufacturing and engine-making center in Gujarat's Sanand
and stated the plant's closure planned for the year-end would cause the loss of their incomes
After working here for 7 years, I am all of a sudden being told I do not work
What is my future? asked Anil Singh Jhala, among the employees
Our demand before the business and the federal government is that the plant ought to not be shut, he added
If the plant is going to be shut, our request to the government is that when any other plant comes up here, we should get concern for jobs
there at the very same wage
When positive on emerging markets including India, significant automakers have actually just recently been shutting up shop in the country
Ford, which built its very first factory in India in the 1990s, said earlier this month it prepared to stop making vehicles in the country
and take a $2 billion struck as it does not see itself making profit in the country.The plant uses around 1,200 people, a Ford India
spokesperson said in a declaration
We will be dealing with the unions and other stakeholders on procedures to help balance the effect and to take care of those straight
affected by the restructuring, he included
We have started conversations with the union and have absolutely nothing additional to share
The string of exits and plant closures by automakers in India in the last few years have actually gotten worse the country's unemployment
crisis, positioning a major obstacle for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who came to power in 2014 on the guarantee of developing jobs
We are in shock since the announcement, stated Jaisukh Kandolia, an employee who had actually been operating at the Ford plant considering
We have actually been told the plant will nearby December 31, he stated
We do not know what we are going to do in the future
