Ford to cut 900 jobs at Flat Rock assembly plant

Ford Motor Co. will cut 900 workers at its plant in Flat Rock in July but increase production of the Ford Mustang and Mazda6 assembled there on a single shift.

The plant, which employs 2,280, will be reduced to a single shift July 12. The expectation is most workers will be transferred to other Ford plants, said spokeswoman Marcey Evans.

The AutoAlliance International Inc. plant, which is jointly owned by Mazda Motor Corp., assembled about 102,000 cars in 2009, and the forecast is to increase output this year, Evans said, helped by the new 2011 Mustang.