Bus maker New Flyer moves jobs to Kentucky to meet increasing U.S. content rules
WINNIPEG — North America’s largest transit bus and motor coach manufacturer says it’s moving about 90 jobs from Winnipeg to Kentucky due to increasing U.S. content requirements.
New Flyer spokeswoman Lindy Norris says in an email that the jobs will be transferred to its facility in Shepherdsville, Ky., in the first half of 2019.
Norris says in 2015, the U.S. government passed an act that boosted its American parts content requirement for bus purchases that use federal funds.
That requirement jumped from 60 per cent to 65 per cent in October 2017, and will increase again to 70 per cent in October 2019.