Ford's $555-million investment at the renamed Flat Rock Assembly Plant will start paying off next spring with the hiring of a second shift of 1,200 workers to add production of the 2013 Ford Fusion.
UAW officials hope demand for the new Fusion, the Mustang -- which is already built in Flat Rock -- and the possibility of adding more Ford or Lincoln vehicles will require a third shift.
"With these new products, we'll have the opportunity to gain share," Mark Fields, Ford president of the Americas, said Monday at an event marking the plant's transition to building Fords only.
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Detroit Free Press