{"id":608,"date":"2009-01-15T08:16:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T08:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2009-01-15T08:16:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T08:16:24","slug":"ford-cuts-transit-production-in-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/608","title":{"rendered":"Ford Cuts Transit Production In Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford is dramatically cutting production of its Transit van model at its Swaythling, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/Southampton\" target=\"_self\">Southampton<\/a> factory.<\/p>\n<p>The factory is moving from a two-shift working day to a single shift &#8211; although Ford stresses that none of the factory&#8217;s 1,100 staff will lose their jobs. Instead, working hours are being cut and all staff will remain on full basic pay, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the Southampton factory&#8217;s output is exported to Europe and Ford says that it is simply responding to &#8220;significantly reduced medium commercial vehicle sales across Europe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/hampshire\/7825822.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford is cutting production at its Southampton factory by reducing the working day to a single shift. No job losses are planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[357,123,49,584,548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}