White Collar Jobs to go..Ford & Holden Dealerships likey to close.

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THE collapse of car manufacturing will wipe out thousands of white-collar jobs at Toyota, Holden and Ford — and, contrary to earlier claims, it will also likely lead to the closure of dozens of Holden and Ford dealerships across Australia.

A combined total of more than 2,000 office workers support the manufacturing and logistics operations at Australia’s three car makers and their roles will be redundant once the factories close by the end of 2017 and Toyota, Holden and Ford become primarily sales and marketing operations.

It will bring the true tally of job losses to about 8,000 at the car makers alone, once white-collar workers join their 2,500 colleagues on the factory floor at Toyota, the 1,700 at Holden and the 1,500 at Ford.

“There will be significant (white-collar) job losses across all three brands, no question,” a Toyota executive told News Corp Australia.
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