Sign of the economy improving?
Workers at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance are back on a 40-hour, five-day workweek for the first time since October 2008. Production workers returned to the Vance plant on June 20 after a four-week shutdown that started on May 25. ‘Obviously, everyone is glad to be back, and we are extremely pleased to be back to the five-day-a-week production schedule,’ said Felyicia Jerald, a Mercedes spokeswoman. – from Tuscaloosa