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About making the truck in a factory in the Detroit suburb of Wayne, Michigan, the organization is negotiating, a person briefed on the matter said. A fresh little SUV which will be called the Bronco also is under discussion, said the man, who requested to not be identified as the discussions are a part of national contract discussions with no deal was reached.

Employs . workers more than 4,400 The 5-million-square-foot facility makes C-Max and the Focus compact gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle, but Ford intends to transfer those products in 2018 into a lower-price factory in Mexico.

“We actively are pursuing future vehicle options to make at Michigan Assembly and can discuss this problem with UAW direction within the approaching discussions,” spokeswoman Kristina Adamski said Wednesday in a statement.

Contract talks started with all three Detroit-area automakers.

Americans purchased more than ONE million little pick-ups annually, brought by their lesser costs, power and decent gas mileage to haul light loads. Sales tumbled when larger pick-ups, including the Ford F-150, caught up in fuel economy.

But GM has returned to the marketplace, selling almost 88,000 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon versions this year. Through July, modest pick-up sales are up 62 per cent to more than 211,000 Autodata Corp.

The smaller trucks, which tend to be more efficient that fullsize pick-ups, could help Ford and GM satisfy with authorities fuel economy conditions.

Ford says it is negotiating on a vehicle for the Wayne plant but would not talk about future products.

 

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The first ever International Women’s Day happened was in New York 1909 and organized by the Socialist Party of America.

IWD is a product of working women who wanted change. We should working on teaching girls the power of how to believe in themselves if we did that we’d have nothing to worry about.

Although the international community is seeing that awareness is simply not enough. But on the International Women’s Day most of opinions cleared that the awareness is the first step in order to create an equal world for women and it is the based solutions for the problems that facing her all over the world.

We should clear that while woman work may not always be on the front pages, she is confronting the most pressing global issues. She is in a great personal risk, fighting poverty, discrimination, and violence so that her families, communities, and countries can have better lives.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that on this International Women’s Day – and every day – we have a responsibility to stand united and work together in the ongoing struggle for the rights of women and girls worldwide so that they may live full, healthy, and productive lives.

 

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The state Department of Education announced Monday that Schools can be closed for up to six days, or the equivalent number of hours, for various reasons. Usually, that time missed is for weather-related reasons.

Bill DiSessa, spokesman for the Department of Education, said this winter is shaping up to be rough as well, but the department will not know for sure how many days schools across the state were closed until reports are filed at the end of the school year.

Schools were shut across much of the state on Thursday and Friday due to below-zero temperatures. It reached 9 below in Lansing Friday, where schools were closed for the sixth day of the year. Jackson Public Schools were also closed for the sixth day. Grand Rapids Public Schools closed for a fifth day, and nearby Holland Public Schools closed for a seventh day.

Paul Liabenow, executive director of the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association, said that missing days and extending the school year can indeed cause challenges for planning, costs, and vacations, but other factors need to be considered.

“The challenge for principals is that they need class time and direct instruction time with students in order to meet standards and benchmarks and provide quality education time so students can master the skill and content required,” Liabenow said. “There seems to be a bit of a divide between making up days beyond six and at the same time trying to support adequate time for teachers to provide direct instruction.”

Michigan Association of School Administrators spokeswoman Linda Wacyk said the group has “consistently cautioned lawmakers that we need as many instructional days as we can to be competitive.”

“We would be very cautious about any measure that removes more instructional days,” she said.