Ford workers at the Brook Park plant are today scheduled to vote on a tentative new contract after Ford and the United Auto Workers Local 1250 reached a new labor deal last week. The union said that the deal would include no major changes to work rules, and in exchange, the union said that Ford would bring a new line of small engines to the plant that currently almost exclusively makes truck motors. An official announcement has been scheduled for Thursday to discuss the new investments in Brook Park.
The addition of small engines to the Brook Park plant could bring in nearly 800 jobs over the next few years. Currently, the plant has 1,065 hourly workers.
A new engine line would be the first major expansion at the Brook Park plant after years of contraction. The Brook Park site had, as recently as 2010, three plants - two engine plants and a large iron casting plant - but now there is just one as the casting plant closed in 2010, followed by the closure of Cleveland Engine Plant No. 2 in 2012.
Despite the recent contractions, the lone bright spot in Brook Park has been Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1, which makes the 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 Engine that's used in the Ford F-150 pickup. Engine Plant No. 1 currently runs three daily shifts to meet demand for the engine, yet there are still many dealers complaining that they cannot get enough trucks in stock.
Ford has been expanding its EcoBoost brand by offering, in addition to the F-150 pickup truck, the small, turbocharged engines in larger cars, crossovers, and SUVs. However, right now many of those engines come from Europe.
Ford is anticipating selling more than 100,000 of the smaller EcoBoost engines per year. Shifting at least part of the production of the engines for the vehicles to the U.S. would make sense, and that's where Brook Park comes in to play.
UAW Local 1250 President Mike Gammella has said that his priority for the past five years has been getting small car engines into the plant.
So far, Ford officials are being tight-lipped about what investments they plan to make in Brook Park, but the wait won't be long. On Thursday, a top Ford executive will be coming to the site to announce the investments and changes.
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