Chrysler to Close Factory, Cut Jobs

[63dartman]

Chrysler LLC will cut 1,825 jobs by eliminating one shift at a Toledo Jeep plant and accelerating the closure of its sport utility vehicle factory in Newark, Del., because of the slowing global economy and a shift toward smaller vehicles.
About 825 workers at the Toledo North Assembly Plant will be laid off indefinitely as of Dec. 31. The Newark closure also will be effective at the end of the year and affect about 1,000 jobs, the company said Thursday in a news release.
The cuts are about 6 percent of Chrysler's U.S. hourly work force of 33,000.


The news just keeps getting better. This is going to really hurt those areas. I just hope Chrysler realigns their vehicle builds and they can get some of those workers back on the floor.

 

[cannucky]

They have been working there way to this for ten years , they want all there operations to go to south america thats why they lobied the hardest in canada for the end of the canadian auto pact that guaranteed any company selling cars in canada had to build em here or at least a significant percentage of them , amd you thought that meant more american jobs ? not why pay UAW rates when they can build and assemble whole so called sub assemblies for pennies on the dollar ? Windsor ontario was the origional home of the mini van and chrysler had the top production plants in the world there now they work on alternating shifts the big van plant closed 8 years ago ,1 year after they put in that fancy computor controlled paint line that they used to show in commercials spraying a little girls doodles on the side of cars coming down the line - they put that in to con the canadian government into believing they were going to keep building product after the auto pact wasn't renewed then the next year bye bye suckers -awhole cities economy is in the crapper , Ford did the same thing in Windsor and now there is no 351 windsor plant or windsor casting or windsor powertain just1 plant and three shifts of workers taking turns working 1 week each while using up there unemployment insurance for the other 2 weeks , unless we force both our governments to force these companies to build in the markets they want to sell in the north american auto industry is dead and gone we're just flogging an already dead horse cause corporate greed is corporate greed and you can kiss the middle class goodbye:munky2:

 

[edbux]

Sort of the same thing here in Bosie Idaho. Micron is laying off 40% of the production people on Monday and the days for memory fab as a whole are numbered. The Chinese gov't subsidized so many fabs that not one memory maker in the world is profitable because of over capacity. HP has/is laying off at their printer fab...just a shadow of what it was only a few years ago.

The manufacturing sector as a whole is in a bunch of trouble. With so much work done outside the borders; an economic recovery is going to be much more difficult than in the past. It used to be the gov't would spend a ton of money on infrastructure (or the recent checks they sent out). That money would trickle back from retailers to the manufacturers; then the workers spent money and around it would go. Now, a great portion of the money from any economic stimulus will end up off shore, the trickle down theory is almost as dead as the man, Ronald Reagan, how really pushed it.