Posted on December 25th, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
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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Posted on October 22nd, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
The Windsor Star reports that the Trenton South Engine Plant’s problems producing enough Pentastar engines to keep pace with demand has forced the cancellation of shifts and temporary layoffs at Chrysler Group’s Windsor Assembly Plant. In what is called shift-smoothing, Dino Chiodo, first vice president of CAW Local 444, says the shifts will be cancelled [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2009 • by Bill Cawthon
Faced with a tough credit market, declining vehicle sales and the loss of Chrysler Group’s wholesale financing business to GMAC, Chrysler Financial cut nine percent of its 3,900-person staff yesterday. In addition, the company will consolidate retail credit acquisitions into the Auburn Hills Great Lakes business center and is closing its customer contact center in [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2009 • by Bill Cawthon
Chrysler Group LLC’s salaried workers get to breathe a sigh of relief: they won’t be forced to take a two-week unpaid furlough this summer. According to spokeswoman Shawn Morgan, they will still have a two-week break but it will be a paid vacation instead of a nearly four percent pay cut. When Chrysler LLC was [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2009 • by Bill Cawthon
Frank Klegon, Chrysler’s executive vice president for product development, says the company is not including additional workforce reductions in the viability plan to be submitted to the federal government next Tuesday. Klegon’s comments came after the announcement of General Motors’ plan to trim an additional 10,000 people from its payroll. Klegon noted Chrysler had a [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2009 • by David Zatz
As of February 2, 2009, Chrysler is announcing another incentive program for retirement and special early retirement program, according to a missive forwarded to Allpar. The programs (IPR and SER for short) are based on “unprecedented conditions” and were approved by the UAW. The incentive program includes a lump-sum payment equal to a pre-tax $50,000, [...]
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