Manufacturing

The manufacturing backlash: No factory in my backyard

Marshall megasite
Land preparations have begun for the Ford battery plant development in Marshall, Mich. (Paige Hodder)
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July 10, 2023 03:12 PM

Fred Chapman has a message for Ford Motor Co., which is planning to build a sprawling factory on the outskirts of this town to make batteries for EVs and which promises to employ 2,500 people. “We don’t need jobs,” he says.

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