Posted on March 10th, 2010 • by Bill Cawthon
Hundreds of workers have been recalled from layoffs to resume work at the Kokomo Transmission Plant and Indiana Transmission Plant 1. According to Rich Boruff, president of UAW Local 685, 175 employees were back on the job Monday and another group will report for work on March 22. Boruff said a total of 257 non-skilled [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2010 • by David Zatz
Allpar contributor James Hale illuminated the rationale behind making Fiat 500 cars in Mexico rather than at an American plant: 1. Mexico has free trade agreements with the USA and Canada (NAFTA), as well as with the European Union. This means that the country is uniquely positioned to manufacture European brands and export them to [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2009 • by Bill Cawthon
About 400 hourly employees from the Chrysler stamping plant in Twinsburg, Ohio will be given an opportunity to come to the Motor City and fill positions at the Warren and Sterling stamping plants. Chrysler says 150 of the workers could go to Warren with the balance being assigned to Sterling. The Twinsburg plant was one [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2009 • by David Zatz
In their rush to send out key details of Obama’s auto plan, many journalists ignored important information. This is the full text; other documents are available from the White House. One of the challenges we have confronted from the beginning of this administration is what to do about the state of our struggling auto industry. [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2009 • by Bill Cawthon
According to Paul Alcala, Chrysler’s Director for Customer Satisfaction, Senior Management, the company is in the process of returning support for the Customer Assistance Center toll-free telephone number from India back to the United States. Alcala says the transition will take several months to complete, but some calls are already being handled in America and [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2009 • by Bill Cawthon
In a refreshing change of pace, Chrysler is hanging out the “help wanted” sign again. The company is now accepting applications for Sales and Service DM positions in all the Business Centers. Word is that the last round of buyouts was a bit too effective and Chrysler now needs to fill some slots.
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