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Chrysler Group LLC announced today that it will add about 1,800 jobs at its Belvidere Assembly Plant. The hiring includes workers for a third crew and hundreds of jobs the company needs to fill by the third quarter of 2012 for production of the Dodge Dart. With these new jobs, the Company will have added [...]
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The ongoing truckers blockade has now shut down almost all Fiat production in Italy. The Mirafiori, Sevel Sud, Melfi, Cassino and Pomigliano factories have been idled and workers sent home for the rest of the week because it is impossible for supplies to be delivered. Fiat S.p.A. says it is losing 4,200 units of production [...]
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Workers at Fiat’s Cassino – Piedimonte San Germano plant are confronting an idle Christmas and a not-so-happy New Year. All 4,300 of the plant’s employees have been furloughed through January 9, 2012 and they will be working just three days a week when they return. The Cassino plant builds the Fiat Bravo, Lancia Delta and [...]
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Fiat is preparing to sign an agreement by March 2012 for the construction of a plant in St. Petersburg, Russia. “Fiat has found a serious Russian partner,” said Alexey Chichkanov, head of the Investment Committee and the city’s strategic projects. “It will be a modern factory with large production volumes.” The partner has not yet [...]
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Fiat/Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne and Fiat Chairman John Elkann are in Pomigliano d’Arco today to officially announce production of the new, third-generation Fiat Panda and the rededication of the Giambattista Vico plant as the Panda’s production facility. In a statement, Fiat SpA said, “…the new Panda is the evolution of a successful model and destined [...]
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Fiat saw about 13% of its union workers join a general, one-day strike called by FIOM, the Italian metalworkers’ union. FIOM called for an eight-hour strike to protest the new government of Mario Monti and the decision by Fiat to unilaterally terminate its labor agreements. Italy’s other three major labor organizations, CGIL, CISL and UIL, [...]
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