The announcement was made at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s annual policy conference on Mackinac Island.
It was a moment of bipartisan triumph that brought together Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Legislature’s Democratic and Republican leaders, who worked together earlier this year to adopt incentives worth hundreds of millions of dollars to attract manufacturing plants.
Whitmer said that helped pull the deal together.
“We’ve got to compete with the rest of the world to earn their investment here in Michigan and we won. This is a big win for Michigan."
Ford’s commitment includes hiring 62 hundred union workers and moving another three thousand from part-time to full-time positions. Also, spending a billion dollars over five years to improve working conditions in its manufacturing facilities.
