More bad news for U.S. workers as the country celebrates America’s most important holiday. Jesse Russell reports:

Ford Motor Company continues to cut shifts at plants around the country. The most recent notification went out to workers at a Kentucky truck plant where a shift is being dropped in late August; as a result 300 jobs could be lost. The company continues to urge employees to take advantage of buyout offers that are on the table until September 26. The packages range in size from $40,000 to $150,000 depending on length of employment. Layoffs at plants for the major U.S. automakers are having ripple affects throughout the industry. Also on Thursday workers at an Indiana plant for auto parts maker BorgWarner were notified that the company would be laying off nearly 200 workers as production slows. And a NaviStar plant in Indianapolis, already shuttered due to slipping diesel orders from Ford, suggested that lay offs could continue until November, six months longer than previously projected. Four hundred workers are impacted by that layoff.