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Coordinates: 37°3924S 144°5710E / 37.656543°S 144.952819°E / -37.656543; 144.952819
 

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Broadmeadows Assembly Plant
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Built1959
LocationCampbellfield. Victoria, Australia
Coordinates37°39′24S 144°57′10E / 37.656543°S 144.952819°E / -37.656543; 144.952819
IndustryMotor vehicle assembly
ProductsFord Australia
Employees2088 (2011)
Area45 acres (18 ha)
Defunct2016

The Broadmeadows Assembly Plant was a Ford Australia automobile factory in Campbellfield, Melbourne. It spanned 45 acres (18 ha) and as of 2011, employed 2,088 workers.[1] It opened in 1959.[2][3]

In 1973, there was a large strike by mostly migrant workers over unsafe and unsanitary working conditions, and Ford's refusal to hire more workers, including a ban on female workers. The strikers fought off police and even managed to force their union to endorse them. This strike was notable due to the huge outpour of community support, with the Glaziers Union refusing to fix broken windows, doctors opening free clinics and the local Greek Orthodox Church donating to strike funds. It succeeded in its aims.

There was a second strike in 1981 called by local members of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation, but this time, federal Union members moved to shut it down swiftly.

The Broadmeadows Assembly Plant closed on 7 October 2016 after Ford ceased manufacturing in Australia.[4] The site was sold to the Pelligra Group in 2019 who intend to redevelop it as an industrial estate as Assembly Broadmeadows.[5][6][7]

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  • ^ Huge Ford plant to begin output soon Cumberland Argus 3 June 1959 page 12
  • ^ Ford closes its Australian factories after more than 90 years ABC News 7 October 2016
  • ^ Ford sells Broadmeadows and Geelong factories for undisclosed sum Drive.com.au 17 May 2019
  • ^ Pelligra plots $500m transformation of Ford sites Australian Financial Review 17 May 2019
  • ^ Home Assembly Broadmeadows

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Broadmeadows_Assembly_Plant&oldid=1180185802"

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