Ford's China JV to lay off 'thousands' of workers: New York Times

[February 27, 2019]   BEIJING (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co's joint venture in China has "quietly begun" dismissing thousands of its 20,000 workers due to weak auto sales in the world's second-largest economy, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

Workers assemble vehicles at a plant of Changan Ford, a joint venture between Changan Automobile and Ford Motor Company, in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China February 22, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer

The report did not identify its source of the information on the scale of the job cuts.

Ford did not immediately comment on the report. A spokeswoman for Ford's local joint venture company, formed in partnership with Changan Automobile Group, did not respond to a request for immediate comment.

(Reporting by Beijing Monitoring Desk, Norihiko Shirouzu and Yilei Sun; editing by Jason Neely)

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