Chrysler has announced it will add shift at the Belvidere, Illinois Assembly Plant to make an additional 10,000 Dodge Calibers this year. Production of the Jeep Compass and Patriot will not be increased.
The increase will add 850 workers to the plant’s employee rolls and will restore inventories of the Caliber, which had shrunk to a [...]
Chrysler Group is recalling hundreds of employees to resume production at the Belvidere assembly plant. The plant, which builds the Dodge Caliber, Jeep Compass and Jeep Patriot, will run today, tomorrow and Friday before breaking for the two-week summer furlough.
Two months ago, the company had planned to lay off 992 of Belvidere’s 2,600 employees at [...]
Chrysler announced yesterday that the Belvidere Assembly and Stamping plants in Illinois, which build the Patriot, Compass, and Caliber, will move to a traditional single shift from its current shift-smoothing operation, which allowed first and second shifts to share work while running the plant on a single shift. As a result, 992 employees will be [...]
A large group of 30 Fiat representatives will be at the Belvidere plant on Monday May 4th, according to our correspondents. Rumors are circulating that the Fiat people may want to bring a new SUV or other vehicle to the flex-capable plant, which was set up to make the Patriot, Caliber, Compass, and one unrelated [...]
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We have not verified this, but we were just told that some die makers have been recalled to the Mt. Elliott Tool and Die Shop to work on tooling for a new Nissan to be built at Sterling Heights. A derivative of the Nissan Cube was to be built in Japan for Chrysler, but plans may now [...]
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