Chrysler gives details on 5,000-worker job cut
Last year Chrysler announced that it intended to significantly reduce its workforce by 2009 as part of its Recovery and Transformation plan. The exact focus of the planned reductions was not revealed at the time. Now, however, Chrysler has publicly released information detailing the locations of nearly 5,000 job cuts set to occur between now and the end of March. The layoffs will span five North American plants and the numbers consist of all hourly workers (i.e. union workers) and stem from the eliminations of extra production shifts. 900 workers will be gone from the Jefferson North Assembly Plant and 1,140 from the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, both in the Detroit area. The Toledo North Assembly Plant loses 780 jobs and the Brampton Assembly Plant in Ontario will cut 1,000 employees. The Belvedere Assembly Plant in Illinois will be excusing 1,096 workers, with around 600 of those coming from temporary positions. Our condolences if you're one of the 5,000. We hear that Audi is hiring, though.
[Source: The Detroit News]
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Jason Bird 10:28AM (1/04/2008)
It's never a good start to the year when a large automaker is outlining layoffs.
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J. D. Billiford 11:15AM (1/04/2008)
>>> It's never a good start to the year when ANY company is outlining layoffs!
Derek 12:08PM (1/04/2008)
Very bad for the workers I agree, but when Chrysler has been overproducing vehicles for the last several years (at least) it is good for the company.
zamafir 12:39PM (1/04/2008)
It's never a good start to the new year when the US economy is seeing increasing signs of significant raises in unemployment to a two year high, with indicators pointing to the trend not changing next month, or the month following – especially with the diffusion index where it is.
MemphisNET 11:15AM (1/04/2008)
I love Chrysler/Dodge vehicles, but I'm not fanboyish, and thus do not ignore they have some problems. Most are interior and preceived quality.
If they were to just scale back, and focus on those items, they would fair much better and rebuild more quickly. Also letting bean-counters do design was a wrong move, seeing as all through the 90's and early 2000's the styling was second to none. It's almost as if GM and Chrysler flip-flopped on that.
Do what needs to be done. It sucks to lose 5000, but Chrysler going under all together is good for nobody - and definately not good for our North American economy.
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Xcountryflyer 12:49PM (1/04/2008)
It is unfortunate that the workers have to start 2008 looking for jobs, but I think many more Chrysler workers will be following them soon enough.
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captain underpants and the bringdown gang 9:47PM (1/04/2008)
See this? this is the start of the death (and the eventual rebirth as a technology company wonderland) of michigan.
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Paul Tashner 10:15AM (1/05/2008)
By rough calculations Chrysler impacts:
* 88,000 company employees
* 2.5 million customers (per year)
* tens of thousands of upstream production workers making components
* 4,000 US dealers and 2,500 international dealers (with about 50,000 employees working on Chrysler business)
That's something over 2.7 million people and their families. Welcome back as a US company, improve product quality, exploit some great designs and make a positive future impact on the people, economies and environment. It can be done, and Chrysler can do it.
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jamesFF 2:17PM (1/05/2008)
Why not add a third division to share the manufacturing?
Like they had before Daimler took over.
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Georgy 9:29PM (1/10/2008)
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John Mills 6:31AM (1/07/2008)
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