CLARKSVILLE, TN—Japanese auto parts maker Akebono Brake is planning to invest $100.6 million over the next two years to boost output at its assembly plant here.
BUFFALO, WV—Toyota will invest $102 million to boost production at its three transmission assembly plants in the United States. Some $90 million will be spent at the automaker’s West Virginia plant.
LOUISVILLE, KY—More than 5,000 people have applied this month for what turned out to be just 50 factory jobs, some of them temporary, at Ford Motor Co.’s assembly plant here.
TUSCALOOSA, AL—Employees at the Faurecia Interior Systems assembly plant here rejected a unionization proposal from the UAW by a vote of 86-62 on Thursday. The facility makes subassemblies for Volkswagen, Nissan and Mercedes-Benz.
DES MOINES, IA—Firestone has reached a tentative agreement with the United Steelworkers Union covering workers at the tire manufacturer’s factories in Iowa, Arkansas, Illinois and Tennessee.
DETROIT—A nonprofit community organization is launching an online crowd funding campaign to raise $125,000 to preserve parts of Ford Motor Co.’s historic Highland Park complex, where the moving assembly line was invented.