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Broadmeadows Assembly Plant

1959 establishments in Australia2016 disestablishments in AustraliaEconomic history of Victoria (Australia)Ford AustraliaFord factories
Former motor vehicle assembly plantsIndustrial buildings in Victoria (Australia)Motor vehicle assembly plants in Australia

The Broadmeadows Assembly Plant was a Ford Australia automobile factory in Campbellfield, Melbourne. It spanned 45 acres (18 ha) and as at 2011, employed 2,088 workers. It opened in 1959.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. The site was sold to the Pelligra Group in 2019 who intend to redevelop it as an industrial estate as Assembly Broadmeadows.

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Broadmeadows Assembly Plant
Ford Drive, Melbourne Campbellfield

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3062 Melbourne, Campbellfield
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