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FCA announced Friday that the Windsor Assembly Plant will continue as a three-shift operation until further notice.

The plant had been scheduled to eliminate the third shift, which requires 1,500 workers, at the end of 2019.

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“The third shift hasn’t been saved, it’s just been extended into the New Year sometime,” said Lou Ann Gosselin, FCA Canada’s head of communications.

“We don’t have a date yet for when it’ll be eliminated,” Gosselin said. “We were vague about the date when we extended it until the end of year and didn’t mean precisely Dec. 31.

“It’ll (future of the shift) will be based on product demand.”

It’s the second time the third shift has been extended by FCA. It was originally scheduled to be eliminated at the end September, but was pushed back to the end of the year.

Gosselin said the company will communicate any production changes through its regular weekly releases.

Gosselin also confirmed Windsor Assembly will shut down for the week of Nov. 4 for inventory adjustment reasons.

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