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Ford Motor Company announced about 400 workers in Metro Detroit have been laid off as a result of the United Auto Workers strike.

The automaker says 350 workers at the Livonia Transmission Plant and 50 workers at the Sterling Axle Plant have been instructed not to return to work effective Thursday, Oct. 5.

“These are not lockouts. These layoffs are a consequence of the strike at Chicago Assembly Plant because these two facilities must reduce production of parts that would normally be shipped to Chicago Assembly Plant,” Ford said in a statement.

The layoffs come a day after Ford presented its seventh offer to UAW, calling it the “strongest” offer made.

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