Ford Russia plant restarts; but strike may recur
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - Production resumed at U.S. carmaker Ford's  plant in Russia on Thursday after a one-day strike over pay and conditions, but workers threatened to down tools again if pay talks stall.
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PRODUCTION is set to resume at Ellesmere Port&#39;s Vauxhall plant after striking German workers returned to work. Production of the new Astra came to a standstill yesterday due
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Trade union leaders said they would meet with bosses at Ford this week amid reports the US car giant plans to shut a plant in Warwickshire making luxury Jaguar cars, resulting in 2,000 job losses.
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Ford Motor Co. of Canada&#39;s rivals will be watching closely today as the automaker makes a widely-anticipated announcement confirming its plans to build a $1-billion flexible manufacturing plant in Oakville, Ont.
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"We are excited about the opportunity for Craiova. But there is still much hard work to be done before a final agreement is reached"  BUCHAREST, Romania: Ford Motor Co. is to spend 675 million on developing a former Daewoo car factory in Romania into a major facility for its vehicle and engine production requirements, the company said Monday. via International Herald Tribune
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Ford Motor Company signed a collective bargaining agreement with the union representing its Russian employees, averting a strike in a country that has been a bright spot for the automaker. Sales in Russia are booming; Ford made 60,000 Focus cars in Russia last year and plans to produce 75,000 this year. The company agreed to raise wages 14 percent to 20 percent and to guarantee that jobs will not be lost in outsourcing to subcontractors, according to Aleksei V. Etmanov, the union president.
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RUSSIAâS stricken oil industry is facing what some have branded a return to Soviet Union days after gas monopoly Gazprom said it might bid for the production arm of energy giant Yukos.
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Ford's F.N car sales in Russia will   double to an estimated 120,000 units in 2006, half of them   produced locally, the head of the Russian unit Henrik Nenzen   said on Wednesday.
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Ford Motor Co.  said  on Tuesday it would boost production in Russia to 125,000 cars  per year by 2009 from 72,000 as it seeks to satisfy booming  demand in Europe&#39;s fastest growing car market.
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Russian tax authorities yesterday scheduled the equivalent of a fire sale at what was once the nation&#39;s largest oil company, offering the main production facility at Yukos Oil
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A strike halted production on  Wednesday at U.S. car maker Ford's  plant near St  Petersburg, one of the biggest in Russia owned by a foreign  auto maker, after a months-long dispute over pay and  conditions.
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Ford Motor Co will consider adding  production capacity in Russia to meet rising demand in Europe's  fastest-growing major market, the head of the automaker's  European operations said on Wednesday.
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VERKHNYAYA SALDA, Russia -- The orange glow of molten titanium ingots illuminates the cavernous factory, one of several Soviet-era facilities that sprawl across 5,000 acres in this small city east of the Ural Mountains. The hot metal will soon be fashioned into dozens of parts destined for Boeing's...
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Fordâs fortunes may be less than glittering elsewhere, but in Russia â Europeâs fastest-growing car market â there is reason to celebrate.
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Russian officials on Saturday restarted a nuclear reactor that sparked widespread panic in southern Russia when it automatically shut down earlier this week.
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Unions are to hold an emergency meeting with workers at the doomed Browns Lane Jaguar plant in Coventry. Parent company Ford plans to stop car production at the plant, with 400 voluntary redundancies and 425 jobs moved to the Castle Bromwich factory.
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NASA&#39;s Michoud plant in eastern New Orleans will slowly resume construction of external fuel tanks for the space shuttle in the new year, a plant executive said Tuesday, marking the first time